UK Landlord Forum / Life

An increasingly solitary population, immigration, wealthy second home-owners and the general mania for house-buying are putting immense pressure on some areas of the country.
The charity Garden Organic is leading the fight against the phenomenon. It says an area the equivalent of 2,755 Wembley pitches will be lost to new housing in Britain over the next decade.

This is happening because the law allows gardens to be classified as "brownfield" sites, in the same category as former industrial and commercial spanish property. Councils have targets to meet for new houses and for brownfield building - thus gardens are being lost, the campaigners say.

The effect is a rash of flats and new houses replacing gardens in high-price areas.


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IMO
Its all about the fat get rich and getting richer developers, the thing that always gets me, is the government will all ways let it happen for a number of reasons, for one they don't have to foot the bill for new build and they will earn revenue from each and every new house that is built.  And on a political note although it is them that has sanctioned the work, they will never get the blame, the developer will.
Crafty move Mr Mps.



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