Velouria
Long time lurker
Interesting ...
THE “disgusting” attitude of private home owners in Dunfermline’s eastern expansion, opposed to the building of social housing next to them, has been condemned by their own councillors.
Existing residents are unhappy at the prospect of their future neighbours in 64 new affordable houses and 24 flats, with claims that the incomers would bring anti-social behaviour into the area.
They also fear the new development would reduce the value of their own homes and that mixing social housing with owner/occupied “will create a social divide and social problems within the area”, the City of Dunfermline area committee heard yesterday (Wednesday).
One objector suggested that people moving into the new social housing would be better suited to Abbeyview and the money should be spent on renovating derelict properties there.
http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/new...5/07/387118-dex-snobs-blasted-by-councillors/
Of course there's more than one side to this story, as the comments reveal; since the council is now creaming off millions in council tax payments from these residents (both the snobby and the down to earth ones...
) and failing to provide adequate education services in return ... including selling off land that was actually earmarked to build a new primary school to a developer in 2003 ...
http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/new...for-school-site-could-cost-council-17million/
As you can see from Google Maps (or partly see, as the satellite images are a few years old!) the DEX is a very large housing project of very dense housing with little in the way of public spaces... Greatest possible bang for the buck :-(
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...8811,-3.405032&spn=0.016222,0.025964&t=h&z=15
If you zoom in on some of the houses that are actually built in that satellite pic, you can see how the developers have basically crammed in as many houses as possible, with tiny gardens, and then charged about 200 grand a pop for the houses ...
THE “disgusting” attitude of private home owners in Dunfermline’s eastern expansion, opposed to the building of social housing next to them, has been condemned by their own councillors.
Existing residents are unhappy at the prospect of their future neighbours in 64 new affordable houses and 24 flats, with claims that the incomers would bring anti-social behaviour into the area.
They also fear the new development would reduce the value of their own homes and that mixing social housing with owner/occupied “will create a social divide and social problems within the area”, the City of Dunfermline area committee heard yesterday (Wednesday).
One objector suggested that people moving into the new social housing would be better suited to Abbeyview and the money should be spent on renovating derelict properties there.
http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/new...5/07/387118-dex-snobs-blasted-by-councillors/
Of course there's more than one side to this story, as the comments reveal; since the council is now creaming off millions in council tax payments from these residents (both the snobby and the down to earth ones...
) and failing to provide adequate education services in return ... including selling off land that was actually earmarked to build a new primary school to a developer in 2003 ...http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/new...for-school-site-could-cost-council-17million/
As you can see from Google Maps (or partly see, as the satellite images are a few years old!) the DEX is a very large housing project of very dense housing with little in the way of public spaces... Greatest possible bang for the buck :-(
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...8811,-3.405032&spn=0.016222,0.025964&t=h&z=15
If you zoom in on some of the houses that are actually built in that satellite pic, you can see how the developers have basically crammed in as many houses as possible, with tiny gardens, and then charged about 200 grand a pop for the houses ...
