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Kensington Resident Says She Will Leave
if the Grefell victims move in to her building.
Cant say I blame her, the properties will devalue enormously.
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Cant say I blame her, the properties will devalue enormously.
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over the past 10 years, we've had new houses being built.
One 'scheme' so called posh houses and not available to those with low income/benefits.
They do however live in an expensive scheme, but they don't call it that (oh wow!!)
The other, which is being built is opposite the new scheme comprises expensive houses and social houses. Them is their so-called bought houses opposed the plans cos they didn't want any old bodfy living across the road. Yet, across the road from them, they can see a huge number of social houses.
jeepers, some folk are blooming snobs
One 'scheme' so called posh houses and not available to those with low income/benefits.
They do however live in an expensive scheme, but they don't call it that (oh wow!!)
The other, which is being built is opposite the new scheme comprises expensive houses and social houses. Them is their so-called bought houses opposed the plans cos they didn't want any old bodfy living across the road. Yet, across the road from them, they can see a huge number of social houses.
jeepers, some folk are blooming snobs
We were talking about this at home yesterday. That block of flats isn’t going to remain ‘luxury’ for long. I know some flats are set aside for social housing, but usually it isn’t many. In this case it’s 68 – which would appear to be a significant proportion of whole. I’m pleased I don’t own a flat in that block because if I were to put it on the market now, which I would, I’d lose money – and if that makes me a snob, so be it.
Krom, //Being rich does not mean you work harder than anyone else//
Not always, but very often that’s exactly what it means.
Mikey (and Eddie), //London, like every other city of earth, has a mixed-income population.//
Absolutely right, but it also has large areas where property is not so valuable. You two talk as though anyone who does a low paid job in London has to commute in – but they don’t – for obvious reasons.
//With respect NJ....shame on you, for what you are supporting is social cleansing.//
Nonsense! You haven’t thought that through. I don’t know anyone who, given the choice, would buy a property surrounded by council houses.
hc4361, I know someone who has a council flat in a prestigious block at St Katherine’s Dock. There are no separate entrances there.
Barsel, //As sqad has said though, why were these social housing flats standing empty//
Clearly they weren’t allocated for social housing. The link says that the City of London Corporation has bought them to house victims of the fire, so until now, they were obviously on the market.
Krom, //Being rich does not mean you work harder than anyone else//
Not always, but very often that’s exactly what it means.
Mikey (and Eddie), //London, like every other city of earth, has a mixed-income population.//
Absolutely right, but it also has large areas where property is not so valuable. You two talk as though anyone who does a low paid job in London has to commute in – but they don’t – for obvious reasons.
//With respect NJ....shame on you, for what you are supporting is social cleansing.//
Nonsense! You haven’t thought that through. I don’t know anyone who, given the choice, would buy a property surrounded by council houses.
hc4361, I know someone who has a council flat in a prestigious block at St Katherine’s Dock. There are no separate entrances there.
Barsel, //As sqad has said though, why were these social housing flats standing empty//
Clearly they weren’t allocated for social housing. The link says that the City of London Corporation has bought them to house victims of the fire, so until now, they were obviously on the market.
//I wonder if some of these all accommodating ABers on here, would like them living next to them. //
Yes.
I don't understand why these people are being looked at like they are subhuman. They were living in social housing and constantly warned the authorities about the risk and were not listened to until it was too late. They deserve assistance and are getting it. If there's a place next to me that's needed for housing them, that's fine by me.
Yes.
I don't understand why these people are being looked at like they are subhuman. They were living in social housing and constantly warned the authorities about the risk and were not listened to until it was too late. They deserve assistance and are getting it. If there's a place next to me that's needed for housing them, that's fine by me.
I don't think snobbery comes into it. If you've worked hard to provide a decent standard of living and a nice home for yourselves it's only natural to want to protect it, and anyone who doesn't see that probably doesn't have it, or they have Corbinesque leanings.
It's a fact that Neighbours can have an adverse affect on the value of nearby properties especially in areas perceived to bequote[Posh]
//Would they have been built anyway?
The Independent has confirmed that the homes in question were built by St Edward as a condition of the granting of planning permission by Kensington and Chelsea Council.
Under Section 106 of the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act, councils can require developers to commit to provide a certain amount of social housing in any new private residential development (or alternatively pay a sum of money to the local authority for investment in social housing elsewhere) as a condition for the granting of approval.
This is what St Edward was doing. These social housing flats were always going to be available for use by low-income Kensington residents at some point.
In the absence of this deal The Independent has also confirmed St Edward would have offered the homes for sale to locally based housing associations. These housing associations would then have then have let out the homes at below-market rents.
There are actually two types of social rent that housing associations are allowed by the Government to charge tenants.
"Social rent" means the rent is around 50 per cent of market rates. "Affordable rent" means about 80 per cent of market rents.
The planning documents of the site suggest they were to be social rent.
But, regardless, those rich people in the development who have reportedly voiced their discontent at poorer folk moving in obviously failed to appreciate that they would have soon have had some new low-income neighbours in any event.//
The Independent has confirmed that the homes in question were built by St Edward as a condition of the granting of planning permission by Kensington and Chelsea Council.
Under Section 106 of the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act, councils can require developers to commit to provide a certain amount of social housing in any new private residential development (or alternatively pay a sum of money to the local authority for investment in social housing elsewhere) as a condition for the granting of approval.
This is what St Edward was doing. These social housing flats were always going to be available for use by low-income Kensington residents at some point.
In the absence of this deal The Independent has also confirmed St Edward would have offered the homes for sale to locally based housing associations. These housing associations would then have then have let out the homes at below-market rents.
There are actually two types of social rent that housing associations are allowed by the Government to charge tenants.
"Social rent" means the rent is around 50 per cent of market rates. "Affordable rent" means about 80 per cent of market rents.
The planning documents of the site suggest they were to be social rent.
But, regardless, those rich people in the development who have reportedly voiced their discontent at poorer folk moving in obviously failed to appreciate that they would have soon have had some new low-income neighbours in any event.//
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