General Discussion
I wasn't saying that at all. I was simply trying to make the point that the housing crisis is not due only to immigration. That families split up more now than in previous generations thereby increasing the demand for accommodation is another factor. "Today, an average of 2 people live in a property, this is significantly different to the situation in the 1950s, where an average of 5 ...
Ok so us baby boomers (there are a lot of us) who selfishly live longer in houses that we either bought and paid for, or have occupied for decades, should move out into smaller accommodation so that the annual flood of immigrants should immediately have spacious living, without having to go through the cramped conditions that us baby boomers (so many of us) suffered initially until our hard work ...
And of course us baby boomers (there are a lot of us) are living longer and under occupying empty nests. Don't forget our contribution to the housing shortage! And should we end up in hospital and/or care homes will there be enough staff to look after us?
Which town council meeting was that? Can you give me a link please? I cannot find anything. Are you referring to the town council meeting held earlier this month? As I type this, the minutes for that meeting are not yet published on the town council's website. The first meeting of the lawn working party took place in early April and to my knowledge the only info put in the public domain, ...
As the population increases through immigration over 300,000 per year we will need more housing more roads etc etc maybe just maybe after brexit with no free movement those numbers will reduce to more managable numbers.
All that information was on the relevant minutes of the town council meeting. But it is now on the website so Information now readily avaible.
Increased from 2,105 hectares of land in 2013, to 3,332 hectares of land in 2017.
As suggested before - perhaps thought should be given to the lawn becoming a post Brexit communal allotment and orchard. https://www.dawlish.com/thread/details/46061 (anyone started to hoard the odd can or two yet? You know, just in case..........)
LOSS OF GREEN AREAS INCREASES BY 58 PER CENT, CPRE SAYS Analysis by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has suggested that the amount of farmland, forests, gardens and greenfield land lost to housing development each year has increased by 58 per cent. So developing on the lawn will add to this loss even if it is only to develope a play park.
Linda - I was told by a senior member of the working party some few weeks back that the reason there was nothing on the council's website about the lawn working party was because of technical problems. What I thought should have been on the council's website from the very first was 1) who was on the working party, 2) when and where it met and 3) that although there was/is no statutory requirement ...