Indeed. And yet again Bart is wrong in claiming this can't be done due to planning. Of course it can and is being done in many places. But developers don't like it because there is some mar… (View Post)

The difference being I want to build new houses by actually addressing the issues, not by casting away all the planning regs because you are too ignorant to understand what they do. I have advocated … (View Post)

All good points. For someone who likes to comment so much on housebuilding and planning topics, Bart seems to be remarkably ignorant of what actually goes into a development. I come back to the Dutch… (View Post)

So you want to build huge estates with no facilities and no compulsion to provide them in the hope that they get built some time in the future. You are mad. Thatcher had this right 40 years ago. Thos… (View Post)

That is an interesting idea. I instinctively bridle against it but then realise I can't find any reasonable arguments against it. My main argument against reducing the voting age to 16 is lack o… (View Post)