On Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:28:06 +0100, David Cantrell
wrote:

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 10:06:21AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 19:50:44 on Mon, 7
Sep 2015, Robin9 remarked:
In some years they built more than 400,000 houses. Today we can't
manage even 300,000.
That's because Gordon Brown caused a serious recession and people
couldn't easily pay for new houses. Whole "new towns" have been put on
hold as a result.

I'm more inclined to blame Clement Attlee's green belts. At least in
London and its immediate surroundings there is little land left to build
on unless you first knock something down. ALL of the new developments
near my place - and there are a lot of them - are on the site of some
now demolished building.

Are you NUTS? I have lived in an unending urban sprawl, Los Angeles.
Green belt is the most wonderful blessing. IMHO it should not be
messed with in any way.