The problem is that we cannot continue to degrade our environment for ever.
The building process nowadays involves huge energy usage, a large proportion of building materials and components are imported into this country. The houses and their occupants produce waste in huge quantities, degrading land sea and air.

In many West Coast Scottish towns, houses are being bought as investments, and left empty for much of the year.
This destroys communities and adds to the shortage of houses available to local people.

We need a completely new housing policy, one which is not geared to marketing, but to the needs of society.