(9 January 2013, 22:57)Skean Dhude Wrote: BDG,
Houses in the UK are better quality but you can build a fantastic large house for £30Ks worth of materials. The cost for houses is the land which has been increased by taxes and all the bits they have to pay the councils to build. Builders don't make the difference in profits.
The housing crisis would be solved, or should I say shifted, if they allowed anyone to build on their land without having to pay our greedy government anything. I say shifted as that would create other problems but there should be a middle ground which we in the UK never seem to ever get to.
You can build a very nice house for £30K - you can even buy a modern pre-fab designed for UK building regs for less than that.
There is no tax on land that you buy under £125/£150K depending on area, over that it is 1% - it does go up on a sliding scale to 7% for land purchased at over £2m.
Building a house on ag land is going to cost you £770 in planning for a part change of use and planning for the house. For building regs and inspection the cost will run at around £2k for one dwelling.
You build a £30K house on a £30K plot you will be paying 5% to the local authority.
The 'Housing Crisis' is nothing more than a smoke an mirrors term created for political gain. Public services are not suffering because staff cannot find anywhere in their price range to live. People have unrealistic expectations of what they can afford in certain parts of the country. Say a PC and a Staff nurse get married and buy a house in the North West - most places there they could easily get 3 bedrooms, garage, front and back gardens, conservatory, kitchen, living room, dining room.
In London - yeah, that's not going to happen.
Better we were allowed in the UK to get planning solely based on how we will impact those around us, as decided by those immediately around us within reason. Do away with regs for self builds as long as they are a certain distance from other property and the road way - let people consider their own risk.
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