There is a desperate shortage of houses in this country and has been for many years. Repeated Governments have promised to build more in every political manifesto, but they never reach their targets. The current Government target is to build 300,000 new houses a year,but this year they have barely achieved 200,000.
The consequence of the shortage is ever-rising house prices —-there has been a 78% rise on average from £167,000 to £ 290,000 since 2010. This has also resulted in a push of people into rented housing, or living longer with parents, or sadly for some —- homelessness. This situation is further exacerbated by high levels of immigration and the creation of new households through marriage breakdowns.
If you have already got a house, nobody wants a new house built next door, so NIMBYISM flourishes. Meanwhile, well meaning environmental policies endlessly delay construction, while planning regulations require evaluation of the danger to wild life and plant habitats of using greenfield sites.
So housing policy and new house delivery over the last two decades have been an abject failure. We are on a carousel of housing promises that never arrive. There have been 15 Housing Ministers since 2010 !
The only ones to benefit are the frogs and newts still in their greenfields.
GrumbleSmiles 
WELL WELL, what do we have, a load of reptiles, living in a quagmire, or is it a pond called Westminster. ALL these houses , all these immigrants, and small boat people, the colours of life, what a community this Britain has become???
Just checking the date of dear Johns, Frogs and newts?? 21st December , Yipee it is the winter solsists, and the darkest night of the year!!! Phew we are all in the dark, and the evening news its filling the pot holes in the roads in London, utalising the budget allocation for H2S, what a solution to all our money in the rest of the country??? Are we all not supporting London, and its citizens, especially those within the Houses of Parliament, never mind the homeless?????
Yes it is a dark story at the moment within politics, of course not being racist/politically incorrect?
I would like to wish our readers, and all the newts and frogs from the pond a very merry and happy christmas!!! Not Forgetting John and Mo.
l well well! on wednesday 27th. december, we took all our family, children, grand children, and great grand children to the Panto at MK Theatre, what a treat it was wonderful. The stage and its players, dancers, and the music, plus the story of ‘ALADDIN’ was intoxicating for all ages. Then the dialogue was full of innuendoes, not smutty, but for the older clientele. Totally enjoyed by all 15 of us, and especially the great grand children. Great!!!!