May 2023. Britain's Labour Party announce that, if elected, they will allow home-building on Green Belt land, part of a campaign to construct hundreds

How to Build a Future that Nobody Wants - by Kevin Rushby

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2023-06-03 13:00:07

May 2023. Britain's Labour Party announce that, if elected, they will allow home-building on Green Belt land, part of a campaign to construct hundreds of thousands of new houses.

Political parties in Britain keep saying we must build more houses. The figures are terrifying. No one dare say ‘build tower blocks’, because we tried that in the 1960s and the results were not good. Keep this rate of construction up and the logical conclusion is that the entire country will be one gigantic urban sprawl. At least in the post-war period planners built new towns, with facilities like schools, shops and pubs. Now they build housing estates that land just under the legal limit for those added extras.

If you would like to see where all this development might lead I suggest a visit to the lands east of London. Essex, you see, is the future.

During July 2020 I took part in a 500-mile walk along the English coast, starting at the most easterly town, Lowestoft, and then tramping our way south to the finish line on the Thames Estuary, east of London. There were three of us who did the entire hike - Ali, John and myself - but each day we would be joined by locals. Towards the end of that epic hike, we reach the M25, London's ring road.

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