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Petition the Prime Minister to start vertical living projects that make more efficient use of urban land

Hello,

I have set up a petition on 10 Downing Street's e-Petitions website and would like you all to sign it.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Vertical-Living

The petition asks the government to build up rather than out when it comes to building the 3 million extra homes it requires. Our urban areas are very inefficient at present with houses under utilised. Sub-urban sprawl is swallowing up valuable land that will be needed for local food, bio-fuel crops and wind farms. With purpose built vertical living you can comfortably house more people per acre of land.

This is not a return to 1960s crumbling concrete tower blocks. This is the construction of well built, energy efficient towers. There will be green spaces between towers. Efficient transport systems.

Having spent some time living in Madrid I can vouch for vertical living. Most urban living in Spain is vertical with little urban sprawl. Cities are more compact but with no feeling of being overcrowded.

Please support this petition and tell your family and friends to do likewise.

Thank you for your support,

James Butler.

Hi James,
I am afraid I am not going to sign the petition because I feel that there are other issues that need to be addressed such as the large amount of people who are entering the country and becoming dependent on social housing etc, and also the large amount of houses in this country that are left abandoned, falling down and unused by the council.
What do you think?

Helsbells wrote:Hi James,
I am afraid I am not going to sign the petition because I feel that there are other issues that need to be addressed such as the large amount of people who are entering the country and becoming dependent on social housing etc, and also the large amount of houses in this country that are left abandoned, falling down and unused by the council.
What do you think?

I agree 100%.

Unfortunately, any political party that stands a chance of being elected does not agree with us. They are determined to pack the country with tax payers to keep the elites of this country in the style to which they are accustomed.

I very much want the world's overpopulation problem solved. To do that I am attacking from two directions. "Depopulate" or "house the overpopulation efficiently".

If our leaders rubbish both then it makes them look very stupid indeed.

I hope you join me, support the petition and also attack our leaders on the overpopulation front too.

My boyfriend works for a housing association in London, and there are a lot of immigrants coming into the country who then claim benifits that they then send to their families in their home countries. I think this is really wrong. Also there are the people who come here and claim benifits and then have loads of children, and worse still are the people claiming false benifits, like disability when they could work etc. What really needs sorting out are the loopholes in the benifits system that mean people can get away with not working while us muggins tax payers pay for them to have loads of children and sit around all day. If people realised that they have to work if they immigrate to this country they maybe not so many people would come (and I am obviousley steriotyping and making assumptions, I know not everyone on benifits or imigrants are like this)
Sorry for the rant!! makes me soo cross sometimes the things my BF tells me about the people who claim housing benifit.