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Matt Brereton

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Agreed that younger people are being priced out everywhere, not just rural areas. But you can't interfere with the market, and why should pensioners who have saved for retirement and put all the money into property be penalised because someone arbitrarily decides prices are too high in an area? More needs to be done to incentivise jobs and training in rural areas, a new national living wage should also help. But ultimately we need to overcome rampant nimbyism and creaking planning systems to deliver more new homes across the country. I have been to plenty of places recently - in the South East, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Cumbria - where there is sensitive development going on. It's high time local authorities and home-owners realise that a certain amount of development, which allows younger people to stay in the area rather than being dragged into the big cities, is good for local communities.

From: Matt Brereton 11 August 2015 09:23 AM

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