Brownfield Sites for Housing

Hi

Brownfield Sites, basically derelict land, old factories etc are to have Government Funding cut and then abolished.

We have a housing shortage, to my mind this is stupid.

We should not be eating up green fields, when we have thousands upon thousands of acres of ugly derelict land which could be redeveloped usefully.

http://www.theguardian.com/environme...-for-new-homes

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I couldn't agree more. The practical solution would be council housing for those who can't afford to buy, but that's not going to happen with this lot in power.

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The thing is, some of the brownfield land is not good and the soil can be hazardous and toxic.
I think we have to be realistic as houses need to be built. I think it is wrong to house humans on sub standard, toxic land.

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Could not agree more, but most of these brownfield sites are in or near city centres, which make them too expensive for Mr Average to be able afford. These sites are probably the focus for the speculative investment brigade and will be to expensive for joe public to ever be in consideration for.

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The former Rio Tinto Zinc/Anglesey Aluminium site here is being redeveloped at last. However, there are mixed feelings about the Biomass project, funded by the Chinese! Allegedly 500 jobs will be created, which is a priority here after the closure of all the industries we relied on over many years.

It's in a gorgeous place on Holy Island, right next to Holyhead on the A5, with a big Tesco just after the turnoff. It would have been an ideal place to build a new village but, there again, there is the much disputed pollution problem. The irony is that there were big protests at the loss of jobs when Anglesey Aluminium went but the extremely high deaths from cancer on the island are covertly blamed on radiactive polution from it and now many object to the new plant on grounds of pollution.

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Hi

Brownfield sites can be expensive, but only in areas where house prices are very high.

In the rest of the UK, the vast majority of it, they are well worth developing.

http://www.coeddarcy.co.uk/timeline.html

In Telford, there have been massive Brownfield Developments, a mixture of Industrial, Commercial and low cost housing.

It makes sense to me to redevelop these sites rather than leave them as ugly derelict land, with all it's attendant problems.

It certainly makes more economic sense than spending £40 Billion on HS2.

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Most greenfield sites aren't for the benefit of the Hoi polloi.

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I cannot understand why we are building tens of thousands of houses for the rapidly expanding migration population ..because they are certain not for the Mr and Mrs average English Joe Blogs.. It makes me feel sad that we are covering are once green and pleasant land with concrete, as I said before world population in 1950 was just under 3 billion 60 years later its in the region of 7 billion ..How many houses do you want to build for these people

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One house in the above article has been empty for 13 years.
It must be the same in many towns and cities.

I was under the impression that there was a department within each council responsible for bringing empty houses into use by serving repair or compulsory purchase notices on the owners. If this was done properly there would be no need for so many new houses to be built.