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>Ask yourself, do Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Britain, Ireland, etc, all have the same inability to build or is there maybe some other common cause?
by johngladtj 2y ago
>Ask yourself, do Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Britain, Ireland, etc, all have the same inability to build or is there maybe some other common cause?
Do they all have zoning, urban planning requirements, and restrictions on what landowners can do with their property? Yes?
This isn't a complicated issue, this is 100% a self inflicted "problem" that can be solved with the stroke of a pen.
Pro-tip: abolish all restrictions on what landowners can build in the property. No licensing requirements, no filings, no nothing.
The sum total requirement for someone to build something anywhere should be them asking themselves "do I have permission from the landowner to do this?" And getting to work.
- Arainach 2y agoThat's not a winning formula at all. When my neighbor's DIY grow farm in a shed burns down, the fire spreads and affects me. When my neighbor decides to open a diesel engine repair business, the noise and fumes affect me. Most people don't want that.
- estebank 2y agoSegregating housing from industry makes sense, and is what's done everywhere, but segregating housing from services, like coffee shops or day-care, is a very uncommon thing globally.
- h12nz 2y agoWe still have tort law. No need to impose the equivalent of years of average income on buyers, to entertain people’s neuroticism
- dukeyukey 2y agoI _wish_ the UK had zoning. Instead, there is no by-right development, everything has to get it's own individual permission.