I came across an article concerning the governments new housing policy which they have promised will no longer be car dominated after it released its newest planning guidelines for builders.

Apparently, architects and builders will be told to ensure key services such as shops and doctors surgeries are within walking distance and as a result designers will be told to put motor vehicles at the bottom of their list of priorities behind pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.

They will also be encouraged to reduce street clutter when deciding where to put parking spaces and vehicle chargers, although there was no mention of how to charge your electric car if they remove the clutter of the charger, nor where to park your car, electric or otherwise if there is no space designated for its parking overnight.

As for road safety, with regard to public transport I would have thought all the pedestrians and cyclists would have been safer by not being run over by some of the rather clever new motorcars which stop of their own accord when sensing a pedestrian in the way, than to be squashed to death by the plethora of massive heavy electric busses which are favoured by the government.

Labour promised in their 2024 general election manifesto to build 1.5 million homes by the end of 2029, of which 300,000 could be within ‘12 planned new towns.’

If 300,000 houses are being built in ’12 planned new towns’ that’s an average of 25,000 in each town, which means they will need to build another 48 towns for the remaining 1.2 million in the scheme.

So in total 1.5 million houses are to be built in ‘60 new towns’ and as someone who moved to the countryside some 16 years ago and was overjoyed by how little traffic there was and how much better the driving manners were, unfortunately now a thing of the past with the amount of development we have already, I just hope they don’t wish to put any more ‘new towns’ near me as the traffic locally is now becoming as bad as it was in London when I left.

Who are all these houses for and where are they coming from as I have to wonder who is breeding all these extra people, with the cost-of-living crisis at the moment, it’s a wonder how anyone can afford to have a child.

The official figures for the population in the UK are now getting on for 70 million people, let alone the ones who are not included in the statistics, so if all the land in the United Kingdom were divided equally among its entire population of approximately 69-70 million people, each person would receive a plot of land measuring roughly 0.9 acres (or about 3,750 square metres). For comparison, this is not large enough to house a full-size professional football pitch.

I have nothing further to add, except a note to the government planners;

PLEASE STOP NOW, WE ARE FULL UP.

AT THIS RATE IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE PEOPLE START FALLING OFF THE EDGE.