Mica Redress

They will be repaying a loan they drew down.

It makes no difference if it is for a house/car/holiday. The condition of the asset makes no difference.

I'm not sure why you find it bizarre.

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Basically those affected are demanding 100% of the costs to fix this problem and are saying that their demands should be met as the government did not regulate the manufacture of blocks sufficiently to ensure this did not happen.

The government is not accepting the blame for this but is offering some financial help.

Some other people in the country are not happy that there are demands being placed on them to pay towards a house nicer than they live in for someone they don't know and a house which they deem to be excessive for the needs of the family that live there and that the taxpayer is not there to protect the asset value or wealth of that family, but there are there to make sure there is a safe home for that family to live in. Those affected talk about the bank bailout protecting asset values and this does not help their cause and derails the conversation. Others discuss mental health which does not further the conversation on the format of the scheme and derails the conversation. Others block the M50 which changes the conversion from how can we help these people to why are they making me late.

Others are saying that we live in a society where we basically all agree to pay to fix something like this, of which I am one, however most of us are not willing to pay whatever it takes to fix this to the exact demands of those affected. We think that these people need to have a safe home to live in but don't agree that it should be exactly the same house that they built, or at least that we should pay the total cost of it if that what they want but would be willing to contribute some of the costs in that case.

Those affected have continued to demand 100% of the costs to rebuild their houses as they were and are not willing to compromise therefore there is now a standoff and nothing is getting done and it is on few if any of the national newspaper sites homepages 50 hours after the protest and 10 years after it started.

That is the rules of the society we live in.

We house those that can't do it themselves but they don't get to demand the exact house which is to be built for them to live in *and own* at taxpayer expense.

I have huge sympathy for those affected by Mica but believe that a compromise needs to be made if billions are to be paid.

There is also the issue that if work on 7,000 houses is to be done it will take much of the construction industry so that people will struggle to build their own houses as there will be a more pronounced shortage of builders and possibly it will push up material prices so it will have a large negative impact on first time buyers who generally are very tight with money.

If there is no compromise with a group who are 10 years into a lobbying campaign who have not received what they are demanding then what is expected to happen next? Why is there an expectation that the government will agree to all demands in the future?

This technology will be here soon. Houses are being built in the US, China, The Netherlands, Germany using 3D cement printing, and the houses are being built to meet the regulations in those countries. These houses are not sub-standard. Double or triple cavity walls can be built easily. To suggest that 3D printed houses would be cold, damp and hard to insulate is rubbish.

Houses can now be built for a fraction of what they would normally cost as it greatly reduce the labour cost and they can be built in a matter of days.

It would be the perfect solution to solve the mica blocks scandal.

I think you mentioned at one point that you are affected by Mica?

Are you happy about how the lobbying campaign is being run? Of approximately 7,000 households at present which are affected who decided upon the leadership of the group which seems to be a handful of people representing houseowners and it's demands and strategies?