General Discussion
I get that councils get money from central g'ovt for building houses but does central g'ovt or the public purse more generally benefit in any significant way from the windfall increase in land value when permission is granted? Would be interesting for someone to do the maths from Lynne's comprehensive list of applications. Simplistically for me, the very long term council tax rise on my house ...
So on the one hand councils downgrade public services, while at the 'stroke of a pen' in the other hand can turn pennies into pounds granting planning permission. Something must be very badly mis-firing with the system if they struggle so much to balance the books?!
The thing I don't understand is that with house prices being so ridiculously high, how is it not more possible to utilise brown field sites more. In particular to heavily skew the council payments to this effect? Looking again at the above picture, the thing that strikes me, is that there would seem to be little to no chance of any trees ever being allowed to grow between the houses to soften ...
My limited experience with flights has been mainly 'London' Stansted where 2hours is very sensible in total to include for the fafle of seeming to have to half undress just to get through security, then wait half an hour before check-in is announced which is at just an hour max. before the flight. Given it can then take about 15mins to then walk to the check-in, 20mins to queue and the ...
Point well made. The equivalent of traditional terraced houses with back yards masquerading not to be so. According to many young people I know they seem to have been brain washed into believing that not having a garden to look after equates to an 'uncluttered lifestyle'. Or maybe they have to pragmatically believe/accept that to afford anything these days.
So I wish Exeter Airport the very best in expanding its destinations (at reasonable prices) - abroad as well please
@Mrs C - you are quite right about crazy 'red-eye' flight times from bristol. my parents always seem to end up having to spend the night out bound plus get up at 5am as well just to catch their daft flight time at bristol to spain. newquay used to have the occasional flight to the south of france but now only an infrequent one to germany is the only remaining international flight - hence their ...
On that basis Ryanair must have, in effect, been paying me to fly to Lisbon for £15 each way and at only 2weeks booking ahead. Returning there were only 60 of the 200 seats were occupied!!! (p.s. I should confess it was mid-January, but I can recommend Lisbon as an excellent destination even in January). £80 Guernsey is very good as well though particularly for first week Sept. and still £25 ...
The ever increasing 'cyclotron' of London. So seems as though for the vast majority of people without expense accounts the SW 'regional' airport remains defacto Bristol (or Southend et al!) Just like the 'West Country' getting electric trains, means Bristol.
Absolutely brilliant video...also spare a thought though for everyone westward who also lost their railway service albeit not in such a stark way. Penzance was stranded around 100miles from its nearest London service. We really were 'all in it together' on this occasion!!!
