Isn't the correct diagnosis found in the comment that "the cost of building them is too high compared to the price the developer will receive upon selling'"
Despite people widging abouit lack of homes / housing, they are not willing to pay the cost of building one. It's sort of like me complaining that there aren't enough Lamborghiniis available, then when they start turning out double or triple the number they do now, I would decline to buy, based on price. Part of that may be the extra costs imposed by planners and other authorities, as Mr Bloke suggests, but part of it may be that it's free to complain, while buying requires cash and good credit.
The problem is not only with the grant of permissions, it is with the conditions attached to them. Where once, only a decade or two ago, the only condition was that you started work within three years, now it is not uncommon to have dozens of conditions imposed including such delights as biodiversity enhancement and bat/badger/reptile surveys. And then there is the extreme ramping up of building regulations requirements. So as well as restricting the supply of permissions we have also made it much more difficult and expensive to implement the permissions that do manage to slip through the permission refusal process.
Has anyone thought of asking the developers?
Isn't the correct diagnosis found in the comment that "the cost of building them is too high compared to the price the developer will receive upon selling'"
Despite people widging abouit lack of homes / housing, they are not willing to pay the cost of building one. It's sort of like me complaining that there aren't enough Lamborghiniis available, then when they start turning out double or triple the number they do now, I would decline to buy, based on price. Part of that may be the extra costs imposed by planners and other authorities, as Mr Bloke suggests, but part of it may be that it's free to complain, while buying requires cash and good credit.
The problem is not only with the grant of permissions, it is with the conditions attached to them. Where once, only a decade or two ago, the only condition was that you started work within three years, now it is not uncommon to have dozens of conditions imposed including such delights as biodiversity enhancement and bat/badger/reptile surveys. And then there is the extreme ramping up of building regulations requirements. So as well as restricting the supply of permissions we have also made it much more difficult and expensive to implement the permissions that do manage to slip through the permission refusal process.