hugh wrote:


And about 75% of the people who live in the countryside are city
dwellers who have moved out and ow protest vociferously about relaxing
planning laws ti enable more people to do the same.

The problem with the planning laws are they have this bee in their bonnet
about town/village development boundaries.

If you let people buy a bit of farmland and stick 1-4 houses on it with the
condition that build-build distance was say 1/4 mile, the countryside
would be preserved and villages would not be shoehorned to bursting with
rabbit hutches. There's an awful lot of green space down here and having a
house or small bunch of houses every 1/4-1/2 mile would not ruin that, as
you can see when you pass exactly such houses that sprang up pre-planning-
laws.

Infrastructure is more of a problem, but electricity, water and phones are
fairly easy to drop in. Drains are more of a problem, so such places would
probably need a klargester type setup.

My make it less atractive to property developers, but I bet plenty of well
off types would build their own, which in turn would free up housing in the
twons and villages.

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Tim Watts