Just picking up on some of Peter's points here, because I have a friend who is retiring and wishes to relocate nearer to her daughter, now in Norwich. My friend is adamant she wants a new build house to avoid the faff of repairs as she ages, despite I and a few others agreeing that as most appliances and systems now work on the cheapest option, a decade's useful life is all they have.
But the new build has absolutely zero future proofing for climate change options. There is still the minimum building regulation thickness of insulations, no upgraded capacity for an induction hob let alone an EV on the drive..! No EV panel work built or offered as an option.
Surely if these things are important, builders and developers should be taking the lead here.
I'm also getting very twitchy these days, over the limitations upon our personal freedoms to travel. We seem to be treated like cattle and financially herded onto currently non existent public transport 'solutions', when these solutions don't serve your intended locations, destinations or timings.
Take attending my local hospital for my old mums appointment, for example. She was almost immobile, so we had to take apparatus with us, with all that entails with slowness and patience, all of which would be a point of conflict in public transport. To try and do it in a car is now penalised with ULEZ, high or non existent parking charges, and congestion charges, all of which do nothing except make the schemes money. It certainly doesn't help the environment..!
There are so many leaping on to this bandwagon of late, under the guise of stopping oil. Such is the corruption of this agenda, that vast amounts of money are being paid to politicise it & make this mass clamping down on freedom of movement far clearer.
We all in our own way, wanting to help. But this whole green cause is being hijacked for personal gain & fame nowadays.
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