Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 21:49:56 +0100
From: Gavin Ayling 
Newsgroups: uk.politics.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: First Time Buyers go on strike over extortionate house prices

Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Sun, 22 May 2005 15:21:13 +0100, JF 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>We have high house prices because we like 
>>high house prices and have created a market that can't be bucked and nor 
>>can treasury.
> 
> 
> the planning system is an issue too, strangling the supply by one
> group of people deciding what is acceptable (irrespective of what
> people want) and another group trying to fit what they want into that
> template.

Planning is done at a local level by elected representatives. How does
this make it "irrespective of what [the] people want"?
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Gavin Ayling

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