>>96894946
Wow, amazing to see a housing industry shill here of all places. I thought you fucks slept in coffins between being trotted out on the telly to defend your shitty masters.
The actual answer
>>96894789 is that the volume housebuilders are like all other modern corporate enterprises: solely interested in extracting maximum value for owners and shareholders. They work to the absolute bare-minimum standard the regulations allow(sometimes, anyway; you're as likely to buy a home these days and find after a year it's half sunk into the improperly drained swamp it was built on) not because they *must* to make *any* money as their heinous henchmen insist, but because it makes them *the most possible* money. They'll bleat and moan about profit margins, but Hollywood's accountants would venerate the cooked books of the volume housebuilders like stone tablets from fucking God if they ever laid eyes on them.
They'll piss and moan about Town & County Planning Acts while lobbying furiously against any attempt to reverse Thatcher's disastrous Right To Buy legislation which is what makes it necessary at all because the cost of fitting in a few "affordable" units and all the bribery is a fraction of the money they'd lose if councils could rebuild their social housing stock and remove half the demand for volume builder parasites(who sell a huge portion of their homes to private landlords, or build the homes to operate as rentals themselves). They piss their panties about Community Levies while demanding permission to turn land with other productive use into endless tarmac'd suburban hellscapes that have no amenities and put huge strain on existing local infastructure - you can't just plonk 2000 additional people down next to an existing town and not upgrade the sewers, water, power, schooling, medical provision etc etc, but that's what they did for years until the government stepped in and forced them to pay their fair share.
FUCK volume housebuilders.
