Is it really fair that if you build a house in your back garden in Swanage you will have to make an infrastucture contribution of £18,000 (or more) but if you live in Wareham you only pay £10,000?
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http://www.dorsetforyou.com/media.jsp?mediaid=175734&filetype=pdf
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It is commonly called a 'government shakedown'. The size of the shakedown varies from place to place.
If your back garden's big enough that you can build a whole house in it I don't think you need worry about the odd 8 grand.
The higher the better!
The document says "The viability report recommends that the Council use three different rates for residential development. The differences in residential land values vary across the District. For example Swanage landowners can expect a return of four times that of an Upton landowner and double that of a landowner in Wareham Therefore different rates are proposed for residential development across the District."
So if they are making four times as much paying more looks fair. Have I missed something? What is your problem with it?
So a house in Upton cost less than a quarter of what a house in Upton does?
Correction: So a house in Upton costs less than a quarter of what a house in Swanage does?
No, obviously that is not what they are saying. The return, in other words the profit on each house you build in Swanage, is four times higher than in Upton. The building costs are very much the same but the difference between the cost of the land and building against the selling price is four times as much in Swanage. Not having read the viability study myself I cannot comment on the plausibility of the assertion and it would be interesting to see the evidence.
Another crazy attempt by the council to interfere with the market.
This is not just PDC. Councils all over the country do the same thing.
It beats me why anyone still worships the market after what we have been through. The money market brought us a flood of money into mortgage lending with the consequent disastrous explosion in house prices followed by the collapse of the banks that thought prices could be pumped up forever. The market does not always achieve a brilliant outcome, it is an idol with feet of clay.
You would be pretty annoyed living in Stoborough!
We bought in Sandbanks in 1970, a two bedroomed bungalow in about half an acre. We had one neighbour.
We were refused planning to extend or build for my parents, but we ended up with 11 neighbours abutting our plot. We left in the 1990's and moved to Swanage. Our Sandbanks property has now been re-developed into seven properties. All holiday homes.
Thank you for that anecdote. Can't do that, then do more of that. In the planning strategy, then out of planning strategy. People don't understand how much planning f**ks with peoples lives. Planning mandarins don't care, they just keep getting paid. We are not all fat cat developers, just happen to live in Swanage with a plot of land to sell.
It really is the inconsistency of the decisions and enforcement which is so galling.
Why does the government think we can build our way out of recession. the landowners want to maximise their profits by building market housing, but the housing we need here is the 'affordable' kind that young people families and people with key jobs on local incomes can afford to rent/buy.
Is anyone else finding the 'prove you are not a robot' becoming more and more difficult to read ?? Cannot see what this one says at all.
3rd time lucky !
The Government and local authorities are for ever banging on about having to save money. Well if they closed their planning departments and the planners worked from the local Masonic Lodge, where most planning decisions are made anyway whey would reduce their budget without changing the procedure.
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