Are caravan(trailer) Parks the answer to our housing crisis?.
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Seems it's a total nightmare for young people trying to find somewhere affordable to live these days.
Outrageous prices for both rent and buying.Eye watering sums for the folk just starting out in life.It's just not on.
What would people say to going the same way as the USA and having vast swathes of Counties with caravan parks(with all the facilities)?.
Apologies for the spelling mistake in the first option.I blame the Coors.
Outrageous prices for both rent and buying.Eye watering sums for the folk just starting out in life.It's just not on.
What would people say to going the same way as the USA and having vast swathes of Counties with caravan parks(with all the facilities)?.
Apologies for the spelling mistake in the first option.I blame the Coors.
Should we build low cost caravan park communities for the young?. 49 votes
Yes.At least thye'll have money left over for living.
55%
27 votes
No.They have to pay for bricks and mortar.
26%
13 votes
Not sure.Is it really the way to bring up kids?.
12%
6 votes
Not bothered.I've paid off my mortgage.
6%
3 votes
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I don't think so.:D
I don't see why not.It's not like they'll be the usual suspects.:o
Wouldn't bother me. In fact, I'd rather live in a fully paid for trailer with no rent or rather some nominal ground rent whatever you call it - had friends in trailer parks in US - they were fine.
Thinking about it, an old friend of mine in the East Mids lives in her parents' old mobile home - parents gave her it when she became bankrupt through no fault of her own. They'd lived there years - had a nice little garden and everything.
I'd also like to live in a wartime style Prefab. We had Prefabs in the village where I grew up and the folk who lived in them, loved them.
I would recommend it to those who want to save and can find a site with an eleven month lease.
Beware of ground rents tho. They can be collosal. Ours is approx £2 200 per annum for no additional facilities other than water included.
BUT for those who live here, that is all they pay.... no counciltax etc.
Joni, I nearly bought one a few years back and have always regretted that I didn't. Can't afford it now!:D
Councils should free up planning restrictions to build prefabs - I'd happily live in one.
Give him a shout
Eta. He is already in the thread.
Yes,it seems there's one rule for them and one for everyone else.
I think it's a national disgrace the way people starting out on the housing ladder are being treated these days.As if they don't have enough to worry about getting a job(on piss poor money).
Then,when they get one.They have to pay an absolute fortune just to get a roof over their heads.No wonder so many are staying with parents,into their 30's!.:o
Now I read about parents taking out new mortgages just to try and help their children buy a place of their own.I can't help but think the GBP are being stitched up good time here.>:(
Aw. You wouldnt regret it. I grow loads of veg in the garden it is fab.
It would suit you too for the solitude of your research etc.
Do It
My parents lived in a caravan for about a year in the 60's or 70's when they first got married, mainly because at the time there was a shortage of housing in their area (still rebuilding after the war I think), and to let them save up for the deposit on their first mortgage, but whilst I think it was fun at times for them, they always mention the downsides.
I think we have to do something.Of course people are conditioned to think caravan=undesirables.'Trailer park trash and all that'.
I'm talking a Govt funded and regulated solution to the outrageous housing costs for the majority of the(young) UK population.
I can't think of anything worse than paying £70k for a 1 bedroom flat.:(
Whilst I agree this is possibly the only realistic long-term solution to housing younger people (esp immigrants), we'd have to place them well out of site of existing communities. This is certainly more desirable than an explosion of bed-in-sheds.
When there are more houses than demand prices will drop and when there are more jobs and less people wages will rise.
3 grand max per year . No brainer.
Much, much cheaper.
All of these holiday home site scammers have it coming to them.All this crap about 'you can't live there permanently,got to sell your van after so many years'.Outrageous fees for everything else.
Under Govt control that would all stop.We could learn a lot from the American way of doing things.
The Tories are too afraid of popping the property bubble to build new houses but this is what we need, especially in London
Traditionally,no.I agree.But sooner a £20k mortgage on a caravan,than £80k an a 1 bedroom flat.
Oh my goodness. There ARE enough houses, they just are not affordable!
Wages only rise in line with inflation WHEN and only when the economy meets the economic climate.
People are living beyond their means as fluctuations occur.
The same amount of jobs are there as were available twenty years ago. There are more of us tho and that isn't necessarily due to immigration.
The law changed last year. They cant do many of those things any more.
Thanks Joni:)
I do, on a private site. Not residential though, I do live here permanently, apart from my month away in Feb. I have a touring caravan that I move into the village for the month. I have to have a residential address in the UK:).
Our site fees are £1700 a year. It's a beautiful site. Cabins are over £100k so it's not a cheap option.
I even have broadband and satellite TV.