Like a lot of things in Britain there's a chronic lack of development, and a 'pass the buck' trend. Our water infrastructure is another prime example. There's

Like a lot of things in Britain there's a chronic lack of development, and a 'pass the buck' trend. Our water infrastructure is another prime example. There's been no real investment in decades and the system we have in place was designed for a population in the 1950s. As a result our reserves are woefully inadiquate, resulting in the annual 'hose pipe ban'. The rhetoric around it has changed recently though. According to one of the water boards its "because everyones working from home", ignoring the fact that we've had these issues long before the uptick in WFH. Our electricity supply is just as bad, although this is one area thats getting a fair bit of private investment with offshore wind, but the lack of storage ability makes this useless at certain times of the year, resulting in situations like we had in late 2022 where old mothballed power stations had to be turned back on to meet demand. Our housing issues are extremely frustrating. What little development does happen is often carried out to the bare minimum specifications to pass building regulations, with houses that may as well be made of paper and rooms the size of clossets due to massive overdevelopment on each plot of land. Really we should've been building 3-4 new major cities spread around the country. We've had a few smaller scale towns (Cambourne comes to mind) but they don't go nearly far enough to solve the issue. We've also got huge swaths of abandoned industrial land in the north, and whilst there has been some regeneration it's often "premium" tiny apartments in places like Manchester and Sheffield, primarily being sold to landlords who then let them out to university students.