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It’s not the only factor. My point was build more houses if we want to keep prices down. Edinburgh has a massive shortage of houses. We can either build them or try make people leave the city.
Planning adds about £100k to the value of a house before a brick is laid.


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Cullen Kilshaw..who cares? The listing for the £85k piece of land is exactly the same.

And the cost of a house is the cost for the buyer of the house perspective.

The uplift in value of land can be associated to many reasons, not just the actual cost of putting in a planning request (substantial though that may be in some cases). Quite clearly one of the main drivers is the limited amount of land where such requests will succeed.

But back to your original assertions:

The £100k additional cost to the buyer of a house for the land element was a spurious figure.

Then you stated the stat was made up to suit an [undefined] agenda.

Yet here we have a real live example of one acre of land costing £11k the other close to £1m. The main difference is one has planning permission for a house the other not.

That’s not “made up” nor ‘spurious’ it’s right there in front of you. With the added bonus of being agenda free.

Quite simply the cost of the land that you are allowed to build a house on is a substantial cost of the end product.

Whether anyone thinks that’s fair or right and / or absolutely every one is ‘profiteering’ along the way is open to question for sure but surely there is no denying that is the current state of affairs?
Of course buying land with planning consent is much more costly. However, I would hazard a guess that buying an individual plot for 85k and commissioning an architect to design a home and submit for plans for consideration by planning won't be adding a 100,000k to your bill.

That is by the by though.The whole discussion started with my response to a comment that planning adds £100,000 to the cost of a new house before a brick is laid. The poster referred to Edinburgh. That is the spurious figure I was referring to. Clearly a development that builds c300 houses, like the one out at West Craigs in Edinburgh, that isn't going to cost £100,000 x 300 in planning costs, is it?