Planning Laws Must Be Eased Because of Immigration Crisis, Minister Insists
Planning laws have had to be eased because of the pressure record immigration is putting on the availability of housing, Housing Minister Lee Rowley has said. The Telegraph has more.
Lee Rowley, the Housing Minister, said the Tories “can’t divorce” the discussion over the lack of new homes from the need to cut levels of migration.
Writing for the Telegraph, he acknowledged that talk of easing restrictions on building was “often a very difficult subject in many communities”.
He made the remarks after Rishi Sunak unveiled plans to force Britain’s biggest 20 cities to build hundreds of thousands more homes on brownfield sites.
The Prime Minister said the reforms would “protect our precious countryside” whilst ensuring more young families can get on the property ladder.
Under the proposals more abandoned commercial buildings such as former offices and department stores will be converted into flats.
Ministers also announced proposals to loosen the rules so that homeowners can build larger extensions without needing planning permission.
Mr. Rowley, who is the MP for North East Derbyshire, said: “I know that planning is often a very difficult subject in many communities.
“I also know that we can’t divorce discussion of it from other policy areas. Pressure on housing is caused by population growth which is why the Prime Minister is absolutely right to focus on cutting both illegal and legal immigration.
“At the same time, it is absolutely vital we build more homes for the next generation.”
Rishi is focused on “cutting immigration” – with a Rwanda scheme that is taking years to achieve nothing and loosened border ‘controls’ that have seen legal arrivals soar to record numbers? Don’t make me laugh.
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‘Immigration laws must be tightened due to immigration crisis’ everybody else says.
See point 9 of the communist manifesto, this is of course all deliberate, abolition of the distinction between town and country. This is the socialist bible and if you learn points 1 to 10 you can perfectly predict how yr socialist will behave in all circumstances. There is no such thing as a reasonable socialist, all their regimes end in financial ruin at best or mass murder at worst.
https://heidelblog.net/2014/02/the-ten-points-of-marxism/
Yup my little market town thinks it needs another 1,000 homes – gobble up some more fields. Birth rate has been below replacement since 1970s.
So the problem created and exacerbated by the Tories – unfettered immigration – is going to be resolved by fulfilling the WEF ideal of herding as many as possible in to rabbit hutches – disused offices and department stores – which the Tories are directly responsible for creating.
What an absolutely fabulous solution.
Makes me seethe with rage, meanwhile my kids are paying a fortune for their houses
Open borders satisfy Article 13 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that all people have the inherent the right to enter, exit, move around in, and live in any country they choose.
I was not aware of this until recently and don’t recall anyone having a vote on this.
The important bit they missed out is that the immigrants to the ‘new, chosen’ country should have the financial means to support themselves, otherwise they are parasites and a drain on resources.
And if we build all over our farm land then we will be a slave to whichever country is producing the most food, if they have any surplus that is.
They want food hubs full of synthetic meat & insects. That is all part of the farmers protests. The farmers are being squeezed because while there is good food available, nobody is touching fake meat, plant, insects etc.
You think that Blair had no hand in this??
Dream on
You clearly are not a regular reader of my posts. I probably call out the treasonous Bliar more than anybody else on DS…the most evil man ever to hold a British passport.
And he is part of a now exceedingly large club.
It’s a fairly complicated situation. If, as you’ve correctly pointed out, the birth rate has been low for decades this means there’s fewer people of working age to generate wealth and tax revenues to pay for health and social care for an aging population. One solution to this, at least in the short to medium term, would be to allow people of working age into the country, although this obviously has drawbacks such as the need to ensure that housing is available for the new arrivals.
I’m definitely NOT saying we should have the open borders that the ‘Conservative’ government has permitted, but the long term solution to a low birth rate is complex.
The trouble is the “short to medium term” becomes the long term because you have no incentive to address the issue (if indeed there is an issue) and then your country and your civilisation is gone, never to return. It’s also a race to the bottom because you eventually run out of the younger people you think you need.
I am going to challenge this.
Does anyone know how many jobs there are in the U.K.?
We have 67 million people. Do we have enough people of working age to fill these jobs?
I have just come back from the Netherlands. Land registry there had to measure a small strip of land (4 sqm). They sent one man with a laptop to discuss the boundary, and instead of measuring they will send another man to do the measurements.
i am not kidding…
Kafkaesque….
So my quwstion is whether we actually have enough people to do the work or not?
Yes we do……..But a few million prefer not to do it, because they get easy money from the government. ——–Japan has no immigration crisis. yet I never hear leftists bleat about them being “racist”. ——The Japanese are encouraging their own population growth with tax relief for married couples. Our solution is Open the Borders.
They have low birth rates, doesn’t help that so many men in Japan have virtual girlfriends, and the ones that are real are often schoolgirl celebs.
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-vaccine-and-heart-trouble-a-must-see-interview/
A review of John Campbell’s interview with Dr Peter McCullough. The interview is embedded.
Ah yes, immigration. As I’ve said before I’d have no problems with the Christians coming over but it would appear that our loyal and patriotic police forces do demonstrably have problems with even British Christians. Muslims praying en masse outside, blocking the way on the other hand, the more the merrier. If these short clips don’t ram the message home effectively I don’t know what will;
”The video on the left shows muslims lining the street listening to prayers on a loudspeaker. The @metpoliceuk
do nothing. The video on the right is a Christian reciting the Bible and being told he will be arrested as he is offending people.”
https://twitter.com/yalding1666/status/1757468643288334456
Another example, but these are all over Twitter. They couldn’t be any more obvious in their love for Muslims and contempt for Christians/patriots. Just beyond disgusting it really is. Traitors all the way down.
”The same British police who persecute Christian preachers allow Muslims to do as they please. UK is lost.”
https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1757632834955518230
To say that Micron is needing to give Paris a bit of a spring clean in readiment for the upcoming Olympics would be a massive understatement. What is one to do in order to ‘disappear’ thousands and thousands of migrants cluttering up hotels and making the streets an eyesore because they’ve morphed into tent cities? ”The Paris Olympics are fast approaching, and in an effort to sweep away the tent cities that have popped up around the City of Lights, authorities are pushing the homeless from key areas in what critics are describing as a “social cleansing.” Human rights groups are complaining that the majority of these camps are filled with migrants, but with the entire world focusing its attention on Paris and millions of visitors arriving in the city, French President Emmanuel Macron is under pressure to present a rosy picture. Many migrants, mostly young, who live in French hotels are also facing expulsions in the run-up to the Olympic Games, with a collective of 80 NGOs and human rights groups, called the “Le revers de la medaille” collective, saying it is furious that these hotels will earn more profit with tourists than migrants, according to French news outlet France Bleu. The… Read more »
I thought we could not act in similar situations because of EDHR – is not France a subscriber.
I suppose Herr Macron has placed a massive order for boats and dinghies as part of the clean up…
Marvellous news.
Sunak’s plan to “cut immigration” is to shave 300,000 off the 1.2 million they imported last year.
So 900,000 …. a city almost the size of Birmingham. Every year.
It’s the same b-ll-cks as his supposed tax “cuts” ….. whilst freezing tax allowances and sucking thousands more into the higher rate tax band.
750,000 extra people in the country last year (Net Immigration)——-These people will have to live somewhere and presumably that will be in a house. But since we already have a large shortage of houses something clearly needs to change. Since neither the government, nor the opposition will budge on immigration it seems that more and more houses will be required. ——-How many people do the political class think can live comfortably in the UK? 80 million? 100 million? Remember that the UK is now the most densely populated country in Europe. The immigration policies that are really just a Free for All, seem designed to make sure we get even more densely packed.
Local councils are busy approving conversion of so many buildings into HMO’s – former shops, pubs, offices – and approving large extensions to houses, despite local objections, which are then, strangely enough, converted to HMO’s.
They don’t take into account that local services cannot support further drains on resources.
“Local councils are busy approving conversion of so many buildings into…”
Oldham Council can’t do this fast enough.
This is in fact part of Agenda 2030. Populations are to be forced in to what effectively will be prisons / rabbit hutches in the 15 minute towns and cities in order that they can be more effectively monitored and controlled.
There was a good report on UK Column’s News on Monday (https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-february-2024) on the UN’s Agenda 2030, which essentially requires governments to take and protect all immigrants.
“Planning Laws Must Be Eased”No, immigration laws must be strengthened!
Just enforcing existing ones would be a start!
They were supposed to cut immigration to the tens of thousands according to their manifesto. Some would say epic fail, I would just say they’re following one of the 17 sustainable development goals of Agenda2030 (you know Net 0 that everybody calls it for some reason). One of those goals is all about managing immigrants, accommodating them etc with little regard to sovereignty that comes as no surprise.
Our political class no longer work for us. ——They work for the UN and WEF. ——We are simply an inconvenience.