Re: National Parks' Strategy?

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:04:29 +0100, "BAC"
<casswalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
><amacmil304@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:05:18 +0100, "BAC"
>> <casswalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"Malcolm" <Malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >news:b3BDtpVGXDADFwm7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>
>> ><snip>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>Not at all. You have admitted that house prices in the NP have
>> >> >>increased.
>> >> >
>> >> >In case you haven't noticed, they've increased almost everywhere.
>> >> >
>> >> Yes, Angus, but it is fact that being in an NP can lead to greater
>> >> increases.
>> >>
>> >
>> >We've been over this ground before, and if you recall, I published
>extracts
>> >from Land Registry statistics which demonstrated that, in England, house
>> >price inflation inside NP boundaries was lower than in some locations
>> >outside NP boundaries. You can 'prove' almost anything with the
>appropriate
>> >statistics :-)
>> >
>> >However, I would agree that, long term, being within an NP or similar
>area
>> >tends to lead to increased house prices, because the supply of new
>housing
>> >tends to be restricted, as does 'inappropriate' development in the
>vicinity
>> >of existing dwellings, whereas demand from relatively wealthy incomers,
>> >especially those looking for second or retirement homes, tends to
>increase.
>>
>> Not entirely right, Janet Baraclough who post to uk rec gardening sold
>> her house because she was fed up with tourists in this area. Also
>> someone I know sold his house near the West Highland Way because he
>> was pestered with tourists.
>
>I wouldn't deny that many residents get fed up with tourists and look to
>move on - you can't please all the people all the time - but I don't believe
>they generally find it hard to find buyers at a good price.

It's more or less the same all over.

>
>>
>> >
>> >This can have unfortunate repercussions for local youngsters, who find
>> >themselves unable to afford housing in their 'home' locality. Hence the
>> >mechanisms introduced in some NP areas to restrict house sales to 'local'
>> >people. These mechanisms would not be thought necessary if it were not
>> >believed NP policies had driven house prices upwards.
>> >
>>
>> I think this is a general problem in the countryside not just in NP
>> areas.
>
>I did say "NP or similar areas".

Fair enough.

>
>The problem is that countryside employment pays low wages and
>> the amenity is attractive to high wage earners for nearby cities.
>
>True, although it isn't just high wage earners but people retiring perhaps
>cashing in their expensive London house and buying a country retreat.

Agreed, but there are few "retreats" in a NP.

>One of
>the main things which seems to have made the problem worse IMO in NPs and
>AONBs with which I am familiar has been the tighter planning regimes
>restricting new development, to a greater extent even than in 'normal'
>village areas. Competition for any available plots or buildings for
>conversion becomes intense, and one is inevitably looking at a 'high end'
>product. Couple that with the decline in social housing following the Right
>to Buy, plus the reduction in 'tied' cottages, and the implications for
>people on low wages without a house to cash in are obvious.
>

Yes, but many of these problems are brought about by those from
outside the area who buy properties to run tourist related businesses
and pay washers to locals to work for them. They then take the winter
off and spend the money they made elsewhere. That ruins local
economies and give local people little or no chance of buying houses
in their area.





Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk
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