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Higher standards adds to the cost of building homes, making them more expensive for young people to buy.
I never said we don't need more homes, I was talking about the idea that planners are the problem.
Planning is the problem. Planning deliberately takes long in the UK. Rail projects and urban rail projects take over twice the time to get through planning than western Europe so they cost on average almost double the price. Our house planning comes from rules written in 1947 and unlike Europe our planning isn't national is controlled by councils. In normal countries they government say we've a housing emergency so pick areas to build. In the uk it goes to a group of local people who have houses deciding they don't want newcomers or people without houses to get houses near them.

Paris has only 6% of homes spare so the government wants quickly to build to get that number to 8% and bring prices down. I don't believe that they will be built at a lower standard than ours or German of Spanish homes, rail or bridges that take half the time to go through planning.