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Wooden houses (W H)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>are the way forward for Britain.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span> </span>Drawing a line on wooden houses cabins bungalows…<span> </span><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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UNLESS WE STOP BUILDING WITH<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>POLLUTING<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>CEMENT AND CONCRETE AND TILES<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span> </span>FAMILIES<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>WILL NOT SURVIVE TO INHERIT EITHER<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>BRICK OR WOODEN<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>HOUSES.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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SUPPLYING<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>HOUSES BUILT OF WOOD BRINGS PURCHASE OR<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>RENT WITHIN REACH OF ALL<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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Wooden houses (cabins sheds or bungalows)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>last (over) 100 years if well looked after<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Wooden bungalows built in the India of the Raj<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>still survive<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>monsoons and summer heat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span><span> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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Making bricks and cement is the world’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>third most polluting industry<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Planting trees for timber, in contrast, enhances the environment<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Only high rise towers, need concrete.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Cities are outdated in post<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>industrial Britain<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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Building by Team self Build nationally can provide 100,000 jobs p.a. for girls and guys<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Jobs will be spread out over the country wherever there is housing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>need<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Oldies can downsize and down price into a wooden house selling off their brickie.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Oldies downsizing provide security for start up s-b team loans<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Demand, and with it supply of new build brick houses will fall.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Joining a s-b team brings healthy fit oldies out of premature retirement (and off-pension?)<o:p> </o:p></p>
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The price of<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>existing stock of houses will gradually stabilise as wooden h’s are built<o:p> </o:p></p>
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The alternative is inevitable h price crashes disrupting national and domestic economies<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Wooden houses round a village green with gardens and trees form a new green belt.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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Building a wooden<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>house, cost £40k plus £10,000? site cost and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>uses only<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>basic D I Y<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>skills.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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Tradesmen ‘second fix’ and certificate services for w h’s as they do for brickies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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A national s-b W-H supply reduces rampant price inflation of existing stock of brick houses<o:p> </o:p></p>
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The need to-day is for accessibly priced/rented houses and end erecting overpriced houses<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Land for w-h sites needs a raft of tax, constitutional, motivational changes (see JA paper) -<o:p> </o:p></p>
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-prosecuting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>unlawful landbanking monopolies, taxing land owners (not only house owners)<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Government<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>in a democracy addresses peoples’ needs , not out-of-control corporate greed.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Our land system is feudal and sooner, not later, needs liberalising .<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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Land in UK is controlled rewarding the national church, the monarchy, estate-farm owners Housing land is monopolised by Wimpey, Persimmon, Redrow..unlawfully but unprosecuted<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Philanthropists Octavia Hill, Wm Morris,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>Peabody, Rowntree…provided good h’s at low cost<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>David Mills RIP sold for £120k a St Minver* farm acre
for twelve houses (foregoing £2m?)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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Sellers of land should share the inflated value with house needy people willing to self build.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Governments need to abandon rising house prices as the driver of consumerism and growth<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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(a further paper advocates land policies, Wealth tax, land value tax, planning for low cost h…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span><span> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li>See St Minver team Self Build web-site.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>*Grant Shapps M.P.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>visited the project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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James Armstrong.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>james36armstrong@hotmail.com<o:p> </o:p></p>
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MA Econ Edinburgh,<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Self built two houses in London<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Contributed to the ODPM review of House Supply<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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