| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: Goldsmith Street. Norwich /Right to Buy Now | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 21/06/26 18:41:00 |
| Well the Sunak story is hardly going to be recent, is it? But then Goldsmith Street was nearly 10 years ago. I'll look out some of the other versions of the story. I was trying to point out to you what happened following the success of Norwich's building of Goldsmith Street and how the problems of RTB was likely to still cause a problem for Norwich in trying to keep their new housing as social housing - because there has been a longtime need for it. You did after all say that Norwich had achieved building social housing. Of course the problem is also one of affordability and we should all know by now that it is a myth that housing that has been billed as "affordable" IS actually affordable to a great many people who need housing and it is because of this that social housing is still needed. I don't think you will ever have found me extolling the virtues of the Cannes trips that so many developers and LA people seem/seemed to go on because I've always thought that rather unsavoury just as I find MPs and political party followers who do this sort of shmoozing the same. I too have complained about those developers who seem to constantly manage to wriggle their way out of providing the social housing as part of their development that they have already agreed to and which you have to wonder whether they ever intended to and who either conspire or allow inferior and less safe products to be used on their buildings just so as to make a bigger profit. The heat is NOT getting to me. It isn't even really hot today and I've lived in much hotter places where they have learned to keep cool without resorting to AC and where buildings have been actually designed to suit the climate - and where trees are better respected. |