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editor said:
Well that and the fact that there's woefully insufficient new social housing being built to replace the stuff that's been flogged off, thus leaving the field wide open to greedy cunty property owners/developers/buy to let-ers to cash in.
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Agreed - but it is still a unit of housing whoever owns it.

So the malign effects of the policy became transparent only when the population soared.
 
Gramsci said:
At recent hustings I went to most of the candidates mentioned Barratts and lack of social housing.

Shows that the joint campaign by U75/ Brixton Blog to make this an issue has had an effect.
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I still get extremely vexed when I remember the town hall planning committee meeting - I'll never forgive those treacherous 'co-operative' councillors for letting them wriggle out of their social housing obligations... In fact they're SCUM too
 
That's pretty shit, some of those people sound totally fucked over. Although as the developer you'd be pissed at letting them go for well under market price
 
Rushy said:
It would be interesting to see how clear (or not, as it appears) the reservation agreement was.
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Oh, I'm sure the cunty developers will have left enough wriggle space in there for themselves.

It's a fucking disgrace. Indefensible behaviour. Affordable, my arse.
Agnieszka Tawrel, 38, who works in catering, agreed to buy a 35 per cent stake in a £245,000 flat at Streatham Hub when her mortgage was agreed last November. The price has now risen £110,000 to £355,000.

Price hike: The cost of flats in the development rocketed by up to 50 per cent Picture: Nigel Howard

She said: “It was supposed to be my dream home but now Wandle are taking away my dream.

“I got my mortgage approved and my bags have been packed ready to move in. I’ve been living out of boxes for months, just waiting for the keys. It’s devastating.”

She said she may now be forced to move out of London in order to buy a property.
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editor said:
Oh, I'm sure the cunty developers will have left enough wriggle space in there for themselves.
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They have obviously done that. Most of these reservation deposits are non-committal either way and deposits are refundable - they are little more than an expression of serious interest. The key thing is how clear the terms were to anyone buying. If buyers reasonably believed that putting down a deposit guaranteed them a flat at a particular price, and consequently stopped any other house hunting, it is really out of order. This happened to me when I bought my first flat - we agreed on 90K which was at the very top of my limit. By the time we got to exchange they wanted 127K. It's not the loss of that particular unit which matters so much - it is the fact that similar units in the same area are also suddenly out of your reach.
 
Yes, poor developer, they have potentially lost a lot of money. But as I stated first, poor buyers, they have potentially lost a purchase. I don't think a small article in the Standard is enough to pass judgement either way
 
Manter said:
Whatever you need to tell yourself....
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Seems hard to fathom how you can get an accident that serious on that stretch of road, seeing as it's normally so slow moving.
 
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