leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Funny! But property is too lightly taxed in this world - and the next.
Work starts on the eagerly awaited new Foxtons office on Brixton Road
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Funny! But property is too lightly taxed in this world - and the next.
Maybe a higher tax on speculators who buy, do nothing to the property and sell 6 months later for a profit.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Yes, that makes ok then.
Trading in Food and Energy just pushes the prices up creating food and energy poverty amongst the poorer.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Can you live in a portfolio of commodities or shares?
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Living in them?
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
leanderman
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Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Unassailable logic.
leanderman
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shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
How is even possible, surely planning would insist on a window
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
That looks like the back alley behind the shops on Morrish road.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Reminds me of the slummy Caledonian Road landlord in the BBC's Secret History of our Streets who realised he could house foreign workers in the storage cellar space underneath his parades of shops.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
http://www.withoutspaceandlight.com/#!without-light
There are limited standards for newbuilds. Nothing explicitly in England&Wales building regs though, as far as I know.
As for existing buildings... if it's a change of use (eg from garage to dwelling) I think that maybe planning can refuse this on the grounds that the dwelling would not have adequate daylight ... some kind of planning geek could answer this better than I.
Rushy
It's made the Guardian now http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/10/125-thousand-pounds-brixton-flat
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Daylight is a consideration for planning. Not for PD I don't think. Building regs stipulate min openable window sizes. It as it already has a boiler which has worn out so I imagine this place has simply been used as a self contained dwelling for a while and is therefore beyond enforcement. Or vendor is being naive and does not realise the place is illegal.
My problem is usually having to justify too much glazing rather than too little (max 25pc of OA floor space).
billythefish
toad licker
The minimum standard for a studio flat is currently 37 M2 according to the London Plan. It would have had to have been a residential dwelling for a good few years to be a legitimate and legally used property.
As for daylight and ventilation, it is more a Building Control matter than planning. I wouldn't be surprised to see the council step in on this one and force it off the market...
As for daylight and ventilation, it is more a Building Control matter than planning. I wouldn't be surprised to see the council step in on this one and force it off the market...
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Am I right that in Lambeth studios are still not valid proposals for conversions - only new build.
Have definitely known luck of adequate daylight used as planning objection for flat conversions where a flat, or a significant portion of a flat, is in the basement with limited fenestration.
Eta. Would only need to prove four years as a self contained unit to be unenforceable.
artyfarty
A shed on a ditch.
KFH should be ashamed and it looks like they are, since it's been in the Graun the ads not on their site anymore. It's a pretty grotty alley that it's down, litter, puddles, potholes and rubbish dumped. How someone could get planning permission for that beggars belief.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
They couldn't. But if they build it and use it as a self contained unit for four years without objection (and can prove it) planning loses the power to enforce against it.
thatguyhex
Well-Known Member
How about this for a conversion?
That's the alley that runs down the side of the Academy - this was the rear end of one of the shops facing onto Brixton Road. The downstairs room appears to be an open plan living room/kitchen, so presumably bedroom and bathroom in the new part upstairs. So, if you fancy living somewhere that the windows receive direct sunlight for, ooh, I dunno, half an hour a day, and is about 20 feet away from one of south London's largest music venues and right next to where the queue is, this is the place for you!
Man, and I thought having the Dogstar and its queue opposite me was noisy sometimes.
That's the alley that runs down the side of the Academy - this was the rear end of one of the shops facing onto Brixton Road. The downstairs room appears to be an open plan living room/kitchen, so presumably bedroom and bathroom in the new part upstairs. So, if you fancy living somewhere that the windows receive direct sunlight for, ooh, I dunno, half an hour a day, and is about 20 feet away from one of south London's largest music venues and right next to where the queue is, this is the place for you!
Man, and I thought having the Dogstar and its queue opposite me was noisy sometimes.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
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