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V8Druid

V8Druid

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" Barratt Redrow is planning to build between 16,600 and 17,200 in the next financial year, almost 4,000 more than what Barratt itself forecast, before the merger with Redrow in October. "
5.6% of the 300,000 PA (1.5m in their 5 years in office [if they last that long], that Smarmer pledges to build) - and they're 5 months in already :rolleyes: ...... who the **** is gonna build the other 94.4% ??? :unsure:
cloud cuckoo land
needs to engage brain cell, before opening gob .. W⚓


and how is he planning on reconciling the immense carbon footprint of all this ????
 
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V8Druid

V8Druid

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not one single mention of cost/VFM in this article ..... pound to a pinch of pig sh1t it's mega-cost .... more BS greenwash bollox
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BDP's Gap House sees light of day

Work to turn a council-owned disused garage plot in Bristol into affordable housing, using BDP’s Gap House concept, is reaching its final stage of construction.
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pretty shite cribbing under this machine
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never seen SIPs on dedicated (and load tested) shipping cradles (which'll need yet more transport to return) -- usually arrive flat on a lorry bed, stacked as high as poss.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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as if we don't build enough 'legoland' hutches already .......
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How can we make Henry Ford-style housebuilding work?

Nick Pinder, Mariya Rankin and Magdalena Prus explore the contractual and regulatory implications of a cookie-cutter approach to housebuilding
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factory built hutches ain't ended well so far .. most've gone tits up - usually spectacularly
 
Gunners

Gunners

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V8Druid said:
" Barratt Redrow is planning to build between 16,600 and 17,200 in the next financial year, almost 4,000 more than what Barratt itself forecast, before the merger with Redrow in October. "
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I read this as the new combined Barratt Redrow group are only building 4k more houses than Barratt group were planning to do before the merger. Meaning that Redrow, which I assume was its own entity before the merger (hard to keep track of who owns who in these house builders...) are basically only adding 4k houses to the pot. Surely they would have built a lot more than that when they were a separate entity?

And I raise the point again about private housebuilders not wanting to flood the market with houses because its not in their interests! It lowers prices - therefore reducing profits. They don't want to build HA units because they get a set price per unit, every one I worked for did its upmost to reduce the amount of HA on any scheme because it meant they could build more private and earn more cash!

Going to be very interesting to see how this plays out. I just hope that it benefits us all in some way. Either with increased demand and therefore prices for our services, or our kids see cheaper starter homes available to them, or the planning system gets more in favour for those of us trying to do our own little developments.
One thing I know for sure, is its going to get even busier in the south east around where I live and vast areas of the countryside are going to be lost forever. Might as well earn some money out of it as we sure aren't going to stop the inevitable change in the name of progress.....
 
Lancs Lad

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Gunners said:
I read this as the new combined Barratt Redrow group are only building 4k more houses than Barratt group were planning to do before the merger. Meaning that Redrow, which I assume was its own entity before the merger (hard to keep track of who owns who in these house builders...) are basically only adding 4k houses to the pot. Surely they would have built a lot more than that when they were a separate entity?

And I raise the point again about private housebuilders not wanting to flood the market with houses because its not in their interests! It lowers prices - therefore reducing profits. They don't want to build HA units because they get a set price per unit, every one I worked for did its upmost to reduce the amount of HA on any scheme because it meant they could build more private and earn more cash!

Going to be very interesting to see how this plays out. I just hope that it benefits us all in some way. Either with increased demand and therefore prices for our services, or our kids see cheaper starter homes available to them, or the planning system gets more in favour for those of us trying to do our own little developments.
One thing I know for sure, is its going to get even busier in the south east around where I live and vast areas of the countryside are going to be lost forever. Might as well earn some money out of it as we sure aren't going to stop the inevitable change in the name of progress.....
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Looking through the figures it does appear the south east is going to be building a few
Might be only me but whenever I'm down your way I never seem to see the vast quagmire ridden fields of bland naffness that we have been inundated with up here for the last 10 years ..?

Or god forbid the billionaires in Surrey and ampshire have to endure an affordable estate slapped up next door? 🤣
 
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Smiffy

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Lancs Lad said:
Looking through the figures it does appear the south east is going to be building a few
Might be only me but whenever I'm down your way I never seem to see the vast quagmire ridden fields of bland naffness that we have been inundated with up here for the last 10 years ..?

Or god forbid the billionaires in Surrey and ampshire have to endure an affordable estate slapped up next door? 🤣
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We have loads of affordable housing built and being built around surrey.

£450,000 2 bed flat is affordable right ??



And 585 is easily achievable for a couple buying their first house

 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Smiffy said:
We have loads of affordable housing built and being built around surrey.

£450,000 2 bed flat is affordable right ??



And 585 is easily achievable for a couple buying their first house

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Gonna struggle parking the Range Rover sport on the drive old chap.

Wtf is that flat roof abortion all about out front.😵‍💫
 
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Smiffy

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Lancs Lad said:
Gonna struggle parking the Range Rover sport on the drive old chap.

Wtf is that flat roof abortion all about out front.😵‍💫
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Range Rover sport is so old hat, has to be Tesla model x.
Everyone works from home so you only need one car to drop them off at the private school, despite the car journey taking longer than walking.

And they either run out of money before the pent roof was built or it's designed in such a way that you can easily put a second floor there to extend out the front.
Think it was on the old forum that someone posted up pictures of a housing estate designed to have extensions built under permitted development.
 
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V8Druid

V8Druid

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Gunners said:
I read this as the new combined Barratt Redrow group are only building 4k more houses than Barratt group were planning to do before the merger. Meaning that Redrow, which I assume was its own entity before the merger (hard to keep track of who owns who in these house builders...) are basically only adding 4k houses to the pot. Surely they would have built a lot more than that when they were a separate entity?

And I raise the point again about private housebuilders not wanting to flood the market with houses because its not in their interests! It lowers prices - therefore reducing profits. They don't want to build HA units because they get a set price per unit, every one I worked for did its upmost to reduce the amount of HA on any scheme because it meant they could build more private and earn more cash!

Going to be very interesting to see how this plays out. I just hope that it benefits us all in some way. Either with increased demand and therefore prices for our services, or our kids see cheaper starter homes available to them, or the planning system gets more in favour for those of us trying to do our own little developments.
One thing I know for sure, is its going to get even busier in the south east around where I live and vast areas of the countryside are going to be lost forever. Might as well earn some money out of it as we sure aren't going to stop the inevitable change in the name of progress.....
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exactly how I read it too !! WTF???? Damage (to prices) limitation??
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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More than 17,000 homes stalled due to lack of ‘section 106’ bids from housing associations, says HBF

Number of building sites with delays quadrupled between March and October
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" many providers (HA,s) are preferring to concentrate on their own sites where they can deliver larger numbers of affordable homes. "

Dev.s are gonna have to start taking some hits then, to unload the AH elements, to fulfill their planning requirements, if they actually want to build their 'profitable' units :rolleyes:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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‘Significant’ investment in military homes planned after £6bn repurchase of married quarters estate

More than 36,000 military homes were sold in 1996 by MoD
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wonder what they were sold for ?? ...........
oh!! :oops::oops:
" The decision to sell the homes was made by John Major’s government in 1996. The private company, Annington Property Limited, paid £1.66bn for the properties, which are spread across 770 sites. The MoD continues to rent back most of the homes and is paying £178m a year to do so, according to the NAO "

cool little profit on that then .... aside from all the rental income since '96 (4,984bn) :mad::mad::mad:o_Oo_O:censored:

and I wonder who has their sticky fingers in Annington ??

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Government to pay £6bn to take back military housing

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has struck a deal to bring the armed forces housing estate back into public ownership.
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" Annington, owned by Guy Hands’ Terra Firma Capital Partners, paid £1.7bn for the military housing estate (55,000 houses at that time) in 1996 under a private finance initiative (PFI) deal. The switch back to public ownership was initiated by the previous Conservative government, which won a high court ruling in May 2023 that asserted the MoD’s right to buy it back.

The current Labour government is now seeing the plan through to completion. "
 
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V8Druid

V8Druid

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Cement demand to fall 25% by 2050

Global cement demand is being forecast to fall by around 25% over the next 25 years
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" Despite global decarbonisation efforts, it seems that the world will still be consuming more cement in 25 years’ time than it did 20 years ago. "

what else they gonna use - compressed heffalump sh1t ??????? :rolleyes:
 
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