Study of Housing Issues in Nottingham

by adiththomasgmailcom (student)

Housing Issues

Outline

Population in the UK has risen over 10.5% percent since 1971 and the UK is predicted to continue to grow, expected to reach a population of 65million in 2025. However, the number of households is increasing much faster, due to a larger proportion of the population now living alone (7million of the UKs population. This is because of people living longer, marrying later, getting divorced and generally with people buying houses much earlier.

In Nottingham

Nottingham is one of the many places in the UK which has the provision of houses becoming a problem. This is not only for all of the reasons listed above, but in Nottingham, there are in fact many free houses in the city for people to move into. These houses however are not being used. This is because all of the unoccupied houses are in the Inner City, in areas like St Ann’s, the Meadows and Sneinton, places which are viewed as undesirable as prospective house-buyers. So even though there are available houses, more houses are having to be built. These houses need to be more desirable, so they are being built in the suburbs, in areas such as Toton.

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What is being done

There are plans to build 750 new houses near Toton and the new Tram Route terminus at Bardills Roundabout soon, to provide new houses, but in a more desirable and wanted area. This is part of a government plan to build at least 240000 new houses every year by 2016, so that house prices do not increase drastically as a result of a shortage. The government is also aiming for 60% of these buildings to be built of brownfield sites, which are sites that have already been built upon, usually in the Inner City or inner ...