Hmm...The CoL buying social housing stock in another borough and letting that borough manage the stock.
What benefit is there for them? Does this mean they can get away with having less SC stock in central London themselves and therefore fewer 'poor' people in their housing/borough? Does this add to/fulfil their own quotas in some way?
It looks from this like the cheapest properties in the development were on offer for over 1.5 million. Can that seriously have been the 'affordable housing' bit? Can't be.
Kensington Row, New Apartments in Kensington - St Edward
"I wonder if I torch my fridge , the government will buy me that Cornish farm house with swimming pool, 5 acres of woodland , overlooking the Atlantic ocean, that I have always dreamed of owning. Probably not, I work , pay taxes and am English born and bred."
DM comments FTW
It looks from this like the cheapest properties in the development were on offer for over 1.5 million. Can that seriously have been the 'affordable housing' bit? Can't be.
Kensington Row, New Apartments in Kensington - St Edward
Hmm...The CoL buying social housing stock in another borough and letting that borough manage the stock.
What benefit is there for them? Does this mean they can get away with having less SC stock in central London themselves and therefore fewer 'poor' people in their housing/borough? Does this add to/fulfil their own quotas in some way?
They weren't built as 'affordable housing ' from what I read, but as social housing. So they would never have been available for sale.
Good god man, don't do it to yourself! Why even read what these sewer rats think?"I wonder if I torch my fridge , the government will buy me that Cornish farm house with swimming pool, 5 acres of woodland , overlooking the Atlantic ocean, that I have always dreamed of owning. Probably not, I work , pay taxes and am English born and bred."
DM comments FTW
They weren't built as 'affordable housing ' from what I read, but as social housing. So they would never have been available for sale.
They've been doing it for years because it's a really good way of making money. Nothing more complicated in it than that.
Is there any need to be so dismissive? I asked a couple of questions, if you didn't want to answer them fine but don't condescend to me. Thankfully, others saw them worthy of a more helpful/detailed response.
Actually now this thread is descending into bunfights I'm going to put it on ignore and piss off.
no need for this, back off!Is there any need to be so dismissive? I asked a couple of questions, if you didn't want to answer them fine but don't condescend to me. Thankfully, others saw them worthy of a more helpful/detailed response.
The CoL don't build social housing in the City any more, developers of posh housing pay a levy to mitigate the expectatipn they will have a % of social housing. The levy is generally much smaller than you/I would like it to be. The details of recent examples are hidden in CoL Planning Committee Minutes.
IIRC they have quite a bit of social housing stock across many London boroughs - there are certainly some in Lambeth (by Lambeth North tube and along Hercules Road) and Southwark.
you missed these two above then!
You didn't answer my questions though Sam, you dismissed them by saying they've been doing it for years/nothing to see here.Woah. Think you've read an awful lot into me just answering your question there!
Nice try. Not comparable in any way though with the snarky bullyboy routine you tried which led me to tell you to back off on the Finsbury Park thread.no need for this, back off!
New York TImes on the disaster.
Opinion | Would a White British Community Have Burned in Grenfell Tower?
Pretty poor stuff I thought.
New York TImes on the disaster.
Opinion | Would a White British Community Have Burned in Grenfell Tower?
Pretty poor stuff I thought.
The headline would be the NYT's work.It's an op-ed by a graun jounalist, so not really the NYT on it.