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Say hello to Barratt Homes' 'Brixton Square' on Coldharbour Lane (old Cooltan site)

Social rents may be around 50 per cent or less of what private tenants would pay.

Affordable rents would be around 80 per cent of what private tenants would pay

Not sure what level housing associations go for

The latter, as although they're not (at least by charter) supposed to be "profit-making", what usually happens is that when they do make a profit, they roll it up and use it for buying new stock.
 
If you're in a house-share, that's a living situation that is, by its' very nature, transient, so not surprising.

Speak for yourself. IME most of the people I grew up with always thought in terms of our community. perhaps it's a function of our environments.

Carbolic and floorbrush are over yonder. Knock yourself out!

I should have added young couples to young sharers.

Coming from a farm, I have no sense of community.
 
Social rents may be around 50 per cent or less of what private tenants would pay.

Affordable rents would be around 80 per cent of what private tenants would pay

Not sure what level housing associations go for

It depends on the Housing Association. The "affordable" rent is up to 80% of market rate of area. Its not obligatory on HAs to charge the full 80%.

Looks like Lambeth is trying to get HAs to use the % of market rate that are set for the "affordable" housing in Brixton Square. Which is around 60%.

I did hear that one HA who wanted to acquire some of Lambeths old street property insisted that they be allowed to let them at 80% market rent. Lambeth refused to go ahead with the deal.

What I am not clear on is when an HA relets a property. Will they use the new affordable category? I know that some HAs when they get an empty property to let are starting to use the new time limited tenancies. Again they are not obliged to.
 
It was probably foxes. I know they get blamed for so much and the ones where i live are usually really well behaved but recently they have been going berserk.
Hey GOLD STAR TO YOU DEXTER. About three weeks ago i witnessed a fox in the communal raised garden, and it had in fact dug up a large area of the garden. Gardener came in the following day and made good.
PROBLEM SOLVED AND IT DIDNT EVEN CROSS MY MIND.
 
Hey GOLD STAR TO YOU DEXTER. About three weeks ago i witnessed a fox in the communal raised garden, and it had in fact dug up a large area of the garden. Gardener came in the following day and made good.
PROBLEM SOLVED AND IT DIDNT EVEN CROSS MY MIND.
Yeah that was the spot I meant - I always thought it was a fox as its the same spot every time.
 
Gramsci - sadly HAs are reletting at "affordable rent" and doing so with time-limited tenancies. George Osborne is pushing for all relets to be at the higher rent. It is causing terrilbe distress and a massive increase in the housing benefit bill. Yet this deplorable government pushes ahead regardless.
 
Not quite Brixton Square, but almost round the corner - yet another old people's home bites the dust.Flyer-page-001.jpg
 
But this is mental! Prices everywhere are doing the same so it's not even like you can "trade up" if you sell? What were these 2 bed flats going for before, do you know?
This is 586 square feet with no ensuite so these were going for £320,000 in the first phase and around £350,000 in the second phase. Ok if you want to trade down or move somewhere cheaper.
 
This is 586 square feet with no ensuite so these were going for £320,000 in the first phase and around £350,000 in the second phase. Ok if you want to trade down or move somewhere cheaper.

Yeah I could see of you wanted to move out of London, but trade down? These flats aren't exactly large. I'm afraid of what London will be like in say ten years time if this continues....
 
sorry, know we've done this before, but fuck that building is ugly
Its standard Milton Keynesish. This is what has replaced Brutalism (see other thread). Barratts etc think that bland brick-built buildings with no ornamentation won't fighten the horses, the customers or the planners. It is the ITV of building!

Manter you must think positive thoughts. Accept the deed is done and move on...

How can we get Lambeth to make the best possible design for Somerleyton - particular talking aesthetics here. I haven't heard Brixton Green or Lambeth ask how it should look - or whether Carlton Mansion should be turned from housing into workshop space come to that.

All these bloody consultants take the main decisions and then ask you stupid questions to justify a meeting and a consultancy fee.

"What colour straight-jacket would you like, sir?"

In some ways you have to say at least Barratts got on with it. Now we can blame them for crap aesthetic judgement.

With Lambeth "Co-op Council" they will say - we consulted, and this is what people wanted - the Lambeth Lie.
 
My fiancée emailed me the link below and I thought it would be of interest to the thread. Crazy. Cannot BELIEVE the price this is on the market for...surely this bubble is going to burst?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/property-44862341.html

Vince Cable has said:

"The big question now is whether and how recent growth and optimism can be translated into long term sustainable, balanced, recovery without repeating the mistakes of the past," he said.

"We cannot risk another property-linked boom-bust cycle which has done so much damage before, notably in the financial crash in 2008...

"If the recovery is to be sustained it will need to be balanced, geographically and sectorally, to correct the bias against traded activities and against investment - and to ensure we do not return to boom-bust cycles around property markets.

Hopefully it will burst and bring property prices down. Will not make all those "climbing the property ladder" at all happy. As a lot of them buy property believing it will increase in value above inflation.

Had a read of Evening Standards property page today. Always nauseating. Both worth seeing how the property market thinks.

Everything rosy according to ES.

Managed to read this sick making piece about Estate Agents who have "climbed the property ladder". Thing is I do not see any Government rebalancing the economy. It would hit these kinds of people.
 
Vince Cable has said:



Hopefully it will burst and bring property prices down. Will not make all those "climbing the property ladder" at all happy. As a lot of them buy property believing it will increase in value above inflation.

Had a read of Evening Standards property page today. Always nauseating. Both worth seeing how the property market thinks.

Everything rosy according to ES.

Managed to read this sick making piece about Estate Agents who have "climbed the property ladder". Thing is I do not see any Government rebalancing the economy. It would hit these kinds of people.
Omg! I just read that feature in the Es and couldn't even finish it! None of these people are savvy or clever, they just happened to buy before properties spiraled. I can't even believe this rubbish was written up. Stop the presses, property value has increased massively since couple no. 2 first bought a flat in 1987! I rolled my eyes so hard they nearly fell out of my head.
 
Vince Cable has said:



Hopefully it will burst and bring property prices down. Will not make all those "climbing the property ladder" at all happy. As a lot of them buy property believing it will increase in value above inflation.

Had a read of Evening Standards property page today. Always nauseating. Both worth seeing how the property market thinks.

Everything rosy according to ES.

Managed to read this sick making piece about Estate Agents who have "climbed the property ladder". Thing is I do not see any Government rebalancing the economy. It would hit these kinds of people.
You're very right. I was just saying this to my fiancée. I'm very torn having bought this flat. We bought not at all thinking of the value increasing, but because we were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and able to scrape together 5%, and because the rent at our previous place kept going up up up. We could see that we were going to have to move anyway and thought it was a great opportunity for security. But as much as it's scary having put all our savings into this place, I recognise that this market is totally unsustainable and I see the effects it's having on friends of mine. Friends who actually make decent money, want to start families but can't even afford to be a one bed flat. It's so scary.
 
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