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Posted By: BluemoonWill there be any plots set aside for self-builders?I would say yes, because the next government will want as many houses built as possible, by any means possible.
Posted By: TriassicWhen I buy a new car I don't then get a bill for my contribution to repairing local potholes or to pay for a local lollipop person.You pay 'Road Tax' which was originally for that purpose, and you pay enormous ongoing fuel duty. It all goes into the general coffer, and the motoring lobby's complaint is that the per-car taxes they pay far exceeds the community's resultant costs. So why shouldn't all new building pay a one-off tax to contribute to its resultant costs?
Posted By: markocosicYeah you do Triassic: VED, Insurance Premium Tax, and Road Fuel Duty/VAT.But those are when you run any car, not when you buy a new one so equivalent to rates, not the various build taxes.
Posted By: Ed DaviesBut it's different per (house or car)·year; it creates a slight pressure against replacing houses in the way that vehicle taxes don't with cars. Probably a very small contribution to why we still live in houses built at the same time as and to the same standards as a model T.
Posted By: Peter_in_HungaryI thought CIL or S106 was only charged against new build, not replacement build.Maybe, but very little building is actual one-for-one replacement. It does happen, of course, and maybe it should more often.
Posted By: fostertomwhereas every building is a first-prototypeLucky for your trade that.
Posted By: SteamyTeaPosted By: fostertomwhereas every building is a first-prototypeLucky for your trade that.
Oh a house is on stone, let's redesign it
On mud, let's redesign it
Near an old building, let's redesign it
Or a new one, let's redesign it
Half the town is new, let's redesign it
The other half is old, let's redesign it
Near the sea, let's redesign it
A river, let's redesign it
A road, let's redesign it
What do you lot do at university, you don't learn much about structural engineering, quality control, repeatability, mathematics, physics...
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Posted By: fostertomMakes no difference - it's still per car, just deferred. Community cost is rightly partly scaled (fuel duty) to a car's intensity of use; whereas community costs are v largely at or soon after the outset (infrastructure), barely related to a building's subsequent intensity of use.
Posted By: TriassicPosted By: BluemoonWill there be any plots set aside for self-builders?
When I buy a new car I don't then get a bill for my contribution to repairing local potholes or to pay for a local lollipop person.
Posted By: SteamyTeaWhy does your industry not get together like the car industry has and agree on common standards and practices. Then you can get on with designing the knick-knacksYou the customer can always buy a mobile home if a 'wide choice' of standard designs would satisfy you. Or any number of prefab kit houses available. There's no shortage of choice - but you know what the result looks and functions like, whether isolated or in the mass - in fact much like a typical US suburb.
Posted By: fostertomActual customers ... are the ones who see multiple reasons why their particular building needs to be just so, relative to its site and relative to their functional (let alone aesthetic) desiresThat goes a little deeper than choice between
Posted By: SteamyTeapeople carrier, a coupé (with or without a roof), a hatchbackYou're promoting Mass Production for the building industry, or rather the current 'Mass Customisation' version of that, in which the Marketing Dept cleverly decides what profitable options you'll be allowed to choose.
Posted By: bot de pailleOpen BIM is the future and will go long way to advancing effective green building practices.So, how much does it cost to buy the package and how long is the training going to take.