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markpa12003

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You'd better contact the Torygraph and put them right.
My heart bleeds for penniless, benevolent developers, particularly those in the Times Rich List who cab barely scrape together ten million quid and give the impression they're Robin Hood working with charities..

I didn't state the developers are penniless benevolent developers. I was merely trying to provide some balance following the very 1 sided article that you posted.

If it wasn't for land promoters and developers very few houses would be built. I'm afraid they are necessary.

Land promoters / developers thrive under Labour or Tory control governments or councils.
 

Pooryorick

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I didn't state the developers are penniless benevolent developers. I was merely trying to provide some balance following the very 1 sided article that you posted.

If it wasn't for land promoters and developers very few houses would be built. I'm afraid they are necessary.

Land promoters / developers thrive under Labour or Tory control governments or councils.

"A very misguided article containing very little fact." you said, but it actually seems to have plenty of facts, and if they were misleading no doubt Robin Hoodman would have set his vast legal team on the paper.
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
Yurt?

Now, maw roit.

Kipper tie?

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markpa12003

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Surprising as it may seem for the Torygraph, there are lots of facts and figures in the article. RU suggesting that it's all lies? Sources, please.

Yes there are lots of (so called) facts and figures in the article but it doesn't make them right. The article is littered with lies.

90 pc of the greenbelt is not owned by Land promoters or house builders.

All land under a promotion or option agreement needs to be subject to a legally binding contract and registered with the land registry. If you do a land registry search you can find out which land is under option because it tells you. As such, it is possible to see what land is under option and by who.

Land promoters don't focus on underfunded local authorities. They focus on authorities that cannot demonstrate a 5 yr housing land supply and do not have an up to date plan.

Land promoters don't operate in a murky world. The system is very simple and transparent. Land promoter approaches land owner; land owner and promoter agree a minimum sale value; option agreement signed and registered with land registry; land promoter then promotes the site through the planning system, which can all be viewed by the public. If the land gets planning permission and the minimum sale price is achieved the land will be sold and houses built. All very simple.

Option agreements are not a new concept. They've been around for years and years.
 

Pooryorick

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Yes there are lots of (so called) facts and figures in the article but it doesn't make them right. The article is littered with lies.

90 pc of the greenbelt is not owned by Land promoters or house builders.

All land under a promotion or option agreement needs to be subject to a legally binding contract and registered with the land registry. If you do a land registry search you can find out which land is under option because it tells you. As such, it is possible to see what land is under option and by who.

Land promoters don't focus on underfunded local authorities. They focus on authorities that cannot demonstrate a 5 yr housing land supply and do not have an up to date plan.

Land promoters don't operate in a murky world. The system is very simple and transparent. Land promoter approaches land owner; land owner and promoter agree a minimum sale value; option agreement signed and registered with land registry; land promoter then promotes the site through the planning system, which can all be viewed by the public. If the land gets planning permission and the minimum sale price is achieved the land will be sold and houses built. All very simple.

Option agreements are not a new concept. They've been around for years and years.

Pick a quote, or refer to the Archbish of Canterbury.


"The system is very simple and transparent." Rofl

"... mythology swirls around the industry: one – unproven, and very likely untrue – claim is that 90pc of green belt has long-term speculative options in place..."

David Gladman, co-founder of the eponymous company, told the High Court last July: “We normally only target local authorities whose planning is in relative disarray and … either have no up-to-date local plan or, temporarily, they do not have a five-year supply of consented building plots.”
 

Withnail

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Land promoters don't focus on underfunded local authorities. They focus on authorities that cannot demonstrate a 5 yr housing land supply and do not have an up to date plan.

Land promoters don't operate in a murky world.
I'm not the pheasant plucker, i'm the pheasant plucker's son.

And i'm only plucking pheasants til the pheasant plucker comes.
 

Tilly

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