Britain’s housing crisis
James and campaigner Kennedy Walker debate solutions to Britain’s housing crisis
It’s not just about affordability as treasury sources say, but as the chancellor announces billions in funding for housing and high-tech industries. It is mass manufacturing of high specification factory based houses, that are needed to build on a deregulated green belt. 300, 000 homes is a creditable ambition but needs to be year on year for the next twenty years, rather than a one-off target.
In order to achieve the volume of houses we need, a new industry of factory based production is required rather than trying to build houses open to the elements. This could improve quality, come with broadband pre-installed, graphene radiators, and solar panels if necessary. The land needs to be deregulated, a lot of planning regulations overturned, and building in many parts of Britain than currently allowed, lowering house prices and delivering genuine affordability rather than the palliatives now offered in compact urban sites.
Good luck to the #farmers on their march today!
I probably don't need to tell you to wrap up warm. But please remember that no part of the UK's green agenda is your friend. All of it is intended to deprive you of your livelihood, one way or another. That is its design.
Brilliant piece by @danielbenami. RECOMMENDED
Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls
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