Right to build needs to be brought back after 525 year absence.

[chem1st 10]

525 years ago, an Englishman had the RIGHT TO BUILD.

 

There was no housing crisis, for an English man could build himself a house. Citizens had the freedom to house themselves.

 

Fast forward to today and we have a major housing crisis. Young people (and increasingly older people too) are being enslaved via property, many end up homeless, many end up poor, businesses are forced out of business due to high housing costs for employees.

 

A select few get rich without doing anything. And the British disease of rentierism infects greater amounts of the population, destroying our society from within.

 

The state MUST house the people, for they lack the right to house themselves. However, the state has shown itself to be a complete failure and incapable of providing for it's people, the state might as well be dead. It is an expensive and useless bureaucracy that does not provide for the people. It actively stops the people from providing for themselves.

 

Until the Erection of Cottages Act 1588, any individual had the right to build themselves a house on common land providing they could do it within a day and were going to use the house as a home rather than as a property speculation. It was a way of making sure everyone could afford a house.

 

525 years ago, this disgusting act, which removed the freedom of our fellow countrymen to house themselves was introduced.

 

Today we have a housing crisis, and it gets worse, and worse, and the state makes it worse, speculators and parasites profit massively, whilst our fellow countrymen are forced into poorer and poorer housing. Our living standards are falling rapidly.

 

This has got to end. We need to restore the RIGHT TO BUILD and let people house themselves. An Englishman should have a right to build a home in his own country upon his native land.

 

What do you think?

 

Should we let English people house themselves?

 

Or should we have laws in place that ensure our peoples living standards fall, whilst a few non productive rentiers profit from our fellow man's misery?

[Sid Umpley 10]

Yawn.

 

that record has a scratch again.

[Ridgeway84 10]

No chance, there'd be ribbon development, haphazard ugly dumps going up everywhere. Why should common land that anyone can go on suddenly be turned into a few people's Lego land?

[geared 321]

I must say thats a pretty stupid idea, it was outlawed for a good reason.

 

However I agree there is a problem with housing, planning regulations are far too tough and there's far too much thats left to what the person at the planning department thinks.

 

I've seen it first hand recently, where the planning official demanded plans were re-drawn solely because it wasn't to their taste.

(The plans were drawn up to be as close as possible to surrounding buildings)

[rickiethecat 10]

Yawn.

 

that record has a scratch again.

 

15,655 posts about the same subject! How can one person be so obsessed with housing?

[tinfoilhat 11]

What do we want?

 

Unregulated, dangerous shanty towns!

 

When do we want them?

 

Now!!!

 

(Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. )

[Bypassblade 10]

God has he been going on about housing 525 years

[Happ Hazzard 10]

I thought "sheds with beds" were a bad thing?

[Longcol 610]

What was the population of England 525 years ago?

[Electerrific 14]

Aye lad, the's nowt like a decent, honest Y'kshire bloke doin' whatever he wants irrespective of the laws of the land, like! Eeeeeh.

[andyofborg 11]

What was the population of England 525 years ago?

 

about 4 million

 

curiously the spanish armarda was given a good kicking in 1588, i wonder if there was a link between chem's law and the armarda.

[angos 10]

525 years ago, an Englishman had the RIGHT TO BUILD.

 

There was no housing crisis, for an English man could build himself a house. Citizens had the freedom to house themselves.

 

 

The population was only 2.5 million so it’s not that surprising, it would be chaos if everyone was allowed to build a house anywhere they liked.