"Doctor Drivel" wrote in message
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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Build cost on a small house is £60-100k plus cots of laying in roads
services etc..and the land never comes to anything like that.

Total tripe! The land cost is the major factor.

Its just another Labour bit of spin.

You are brainwashed fool.

Basically a house represents 10% of your working life in (someone's)
labour costs.

Which is ridiculous. An acre of agricultural land can be purchased for
£2,000,

You cannot build on agricultural land without getting PP for building
dwellings. And once you have done that it becomes worth 200K.

No-one in possession of agi land is going to sell it to a builder without
first making sure that he is the one to reap the reward of getting the PP.

(You could argue that it is the planning restriction are the reason for high
Land Prices and if they were removed then houses could be built cheaply.
But that wouldn't work as the effect of removing planning restrictions would
see the price of ALL suitable agi land jumping up to the price now commanded
by land with PP for dwellings.)

tim