Labour Announces Plans for Its First “New Town” – £8 Billion for 20,000 Illegal Immigrants

Labour announces plans for its first “new town” – £8 billion for 20,000 illegal immigrants

At least another million illegal immigrants left to house.

PETER HALLIGAN

From here:

Fury over plans to turn tiny UK village into massive new £8bn town with 20,000 homes

“Locals living near a hotspot for footballers and celebrities have blasted plans to build a 20,000-home new town on their doorsteps. The £8 billion scheme would see 2,400 acres of greenbelt land in East Cheshire be developed into Adlington New Town.

“The most affordable houses are expected to cost around £400,000.

There are no details on whether the £8 billion cost includes the associated infrastructure – roads, roundabouts, street lights, bus stops, railways/&stations, utility connections (gas, electricity, sewage, etc) plus “new build shopping centers/supermarkets, town halls/council offices, libraries, churches, post offices and other essential public buildings.

These “extras” could easily double the £400,000 cost/house – an estimate of 100,000 pounds per “affordable” house. No doubt the new houses will be “green” houses with solar panels/heat pumps etc.

I touched on this briefly here:

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Building tower blocks would be 40-50% cheaper. Each 40 storey “XL” tower block with 25 apartments per storey could house 3,000 people (3 people/apartment).

The planned 20,000 new “green” houses would probably house 60,000 people (average 2 parents with one kid).

The equivalent of 20 “XL tower blocks

Build up in a tower or sprawl out as a “new town.

– I would guesstimate that one (40 storey) “XL” tower with apartments/floor would cost around £300 million – 20 would cost around £6 billion compared to he £8-16 billion cost of building an entire new town.

We now have our first estimate of the costs of the Labour government’s pledge to build a million homes over the remaining four years of the current parliament.

Its estimate of 8 billion pounds for 20,000 new homes for an average cost of £400,000 each scales up to £400 billion pounds for a million new homes.

I guesstimate the average cost pr house is double that – so £800 billion pounds – 27% of the current 3 trillion pounds of national debt -or GDP since national debt =100% of GDP!

Maybe this 400 billion will be excluded from the Budget tomorrow – as “recoverable“ capital “spending” the houses can be sold and their construction can be treated as “capital spending” not “general government” spending. – a sleight of hand that never ends well.

These “green” houses will no doubt end up as part of th stock of council housing – expanding the balance sheet of the council and staying on the “books” of the (new?) council).

There will be recurring debt servicing costs for th £400 billion – £2 billion a year at 5% – double that for £800 billion!

Let’s look at the plans for house building in tomorrow’s budget plus recognition of an increase in defence spending from 2.5% of GDP – £75 billion per annum –( to 5% of GDP in defence spending) = £150 billion a year promised by NATO countries to Trump.

Keep an eye out for another dozen such “new towns” to house1-3 million illegal immigrants.

Onwards!!!

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The Cheshire countryside about to be destroyed by 14,000 new homes

Blindsided by Labour’s land grab, Adlington residents are fighting to save their historic farming village

BEN EAST

Gavin Clifford stares wistfully across the pastures that surround Adlington in Cheshire. Fields that have formed the backdrop to his life as parishioner for decades. In the distance are the gates of the Grade I-listed country house that had been the ancestral home for the Leghs of Adlington for 700 years. The Adlington Estate is now at the very centre of a remarkable green belt land grab by Labour’s “New Towns Taskforce”.

“Adlington was in the Domesday Book,” says Clifford. “It’s fair to say this little village hasn’t really changed much since then. It’s a farming landscape – a quiet place, a beautiful place. It’s green belt, too. And now they want to build over the entire area? It’s absolutely heartbreaking.”

When Adlington made it onto the 12-strong New Towns Taskforce shortlist in late September, it was, as fellow “Stop Adlington New Town” campaigner, Nick Paul, puts it, “a complete shock.” And no wonder – residents would usually have some sort of advance warning, whether that be through a local development plan, a consultation or rumours.

In Adlington, there was nothing of the sort. Nobody had been told anything about this plan for a “new Northern community” of at least 14,000 new homes across 2,400 acres of land. They knew that the Adlington Estate had been sold by Camilla Legh to Belport – who specialise in acquiring and managing rural sites such as these – in 2023.

But even then, the assumption was that the fine manor house, as well as various other cottages and houses on the estate, would be spruced up as part of, as Belport puts it, “a long-term investment and potential of enhancing income and value over time”.

But, as soon as Labour got into power and the New Towns Taskforce was set up, the landscape literally changed. Belport was suddenly able to explore something much more lucrative.

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Because Adlington is the only one of the 12 schemes on private land, Belport didn’t even have to speak to anyone local in the first instance. They just submitted their proposal direct to the taskforce who immediately put it on their shortlist.

One of the main reasons Adlington made that list was because, as the New Towns Taskforce’s own report states, it benefits from the “largely consolidated ownership” that Belport can offer. Meaning that without designation as a new town, “it is unlikely that a scheme of this scope at this location would proceed in its entirety through the local planning system”.

“That report is sickening to read,” says Paul. “It even says as a benefit that as a ‘primarily greenfield site there will be minimal need for land remediation’. How appalling is that?”

The only person with a semblance of a direct line into decision making is the local Labour MP. Even Tim Roca is scathing about the plans. “I want to leave no room for doubt,” he says. “I am completely opposed to any proposal to build a so-called ‘new town’ of 14,000 homes in or around Adlington.”

He adds: “Such a development would cause irreversible harm to our green belt in Adlington, overwhelm our local infrastructure and fundamentally change the character of our towns and villages.

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