Apply CPOs to land so more homes can be built
IN the 1970s, many Victorian terraced houses were subject to compulsory purchase orders, often against the wishes of the residents and owners.
They received a few hundred pounds in compensation, prompting many protest groups to spring up in London, Oxford, Cambridge and other towns and cities.
Today, similar such houses, in design and construction, technically "unfit for human habitation" are on the "free market" in excess of £100,000.
Successive governments have failed to build enough houses, resulting in a chronic shortage of homes.
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Germany, under Konrad Adenhauer, planned and built an average of 500,000 housing units each year, since 1950. Clearly, the UK has fallen behind.
CPOs should painlessly be applied to land, especially in villages, where many wish to live.
A legal rule that building societies must pay savers at least 2.5% above the rate of inflation would check house price inflation.
Equity should be the standard for this mutual self-help organisation. Fairness to savers and borrowers is needed. Mortgage cost increases would check house price rises.
Gordon K Moore
St Clare's Close
Derby
3 Comments
by Derby_born
Thursday, January 24 2013, 12:01AM
“I remember the period of social cleansing when my Grandmother was robbed of her home, for which she was paid less than a quarter of the purchase price when it was taken off her with a CPO. My Gran died shortly after this.
Gordon Moore spouts the same socialist nonsense that was carried out by John Prescott during the mid 2000s: http://tinyurl.com/bgwshs7
"John Prescott's plans (2005/06) to demolish thousands of homes across the Midlands and the North are to face a High Court challenge from a grandmother who says the destruction of her home will compromise her human rights.
Elizabeth Pascoe, 59, who is to lose her Liverpool home under the Government-led housing market renewal initiative, has been granted legal aid in a test case that could halt the Deputy Prime Minister's nine Pathfinder urban renewal schemes that affect 2.5 million people.
Lawyers acting for Miss Pascoe are to issue appeal proceedings against the compulsory purchase order granted to English Partnerships to acquire and demolish 500 homes at Edge Lane West, Liverpool, for a new road scheme into the city centre and new housing.
Legal aid is understood to have been granted because important points of law used to justify the compulsory purchase powers need to be tested against other legislation, including the Human Rights Act"
Socialism at work!!!!”
by rbob123
Wednesday, January 23 2013, 5:52PM
“That's the only explanation Mr Lupo.
It's the tiresome old socialist envy of others who have something they don't.”
by Monsieur_Lupo
Wednesday, January 23 2013, 9:29AM
“More teduious repetition from the hater of home-owners.”