Will the UK's gas holders be missed?

Re:Will the UK's gas holders be missed? by pjc50 on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:17AM (#8972074)

The housing shortage is very location-specific. Stoke-on-Trent were selling houses for £1 and giving renovation grants to anyone who promised to actually live there and make the area less run down.

If only there were ways of moving jobs out of London. London housing by comparison needs to go up more - not the >10 story tower blocks, more like 5 storys. Unfortunately this would probably involve clearing a lot of picturesque spacious Victorian terraces.

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Re:Will the UK's gas holders be missed? by awjr on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:21AM (#8972089)

Thought something like 40% of new apartments are bought and never lived in. They are a financial investment/safe capital holding vehicle.

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Re:Will the UK's gas holders be missed? by kps on Friday January 30, 2015 @11:18AM (#8972711)

  > If only there were ways of moving jobs out of London.

If only there were a significant class of jobs whose work product could be transmitted electronically at negligible expense.

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Re:Will the UK's gas holders be missed? by pjc50 on Friday January 30, 2015 @11:20AM (#8972716)

I know, right? And yet loads of them are concentrated in extremely expensive cities.

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