Rebuilding Britain for the Baby Boomers
November 26th, 2011
Maxwell Hutchinson analyses the rebuilding of post-war Britain through unique and exclusive archive interviews on the 50th anniversary of the emblematic Parkhill Flats.
An excellent programme from the series Archive on 4 of which the history of Park Hill flats in Sheffield formed the backbone, while finding time to branch off and talk about Robin Hood Gardens in East London, and the World’s End Chelsea, all against a background of the whole post war reconstruction effort.
Hammersmith & Fulham council – Great lies of our time
November 25th, 2011
Hammersmith & Fulham (H&F) Council today welcomes the return of Right to Buy, but says that local authorities should have the freedom to be able to retain all of the proceeds from the scheme so that they can build more affordable homes.
https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/Councils_should_retain_all_the_proceeds_from_Right_to_Buy.asp
Next week on the evening of November 30th there will be a planning meeting https://www.saveourskyline.co.uk/index.php for a scheme that will include NO affordable homes.
“The right to buy council homes remains iniquitous”
November 23rd, 2011
I do love my readers. So often somebody will type something into Google which sums up the situation better than I have so far and either leads me on to new knowledge or summarises a situation very well. Such is the above (from Norwich I think). If it was you, thank you and I hope you enjoyed reading through the long exchange between myself and Mizzentop the other day at https://www.singleaspect.org.uk/?p=9450
Guardian housing articles
November 22nd, 2011
UPDATE: – Jules Birch has written a much better article on this subject.
The Guardian has a couple of good articles on housing today with the usual range of comments from which I’m picking out a few. Rob Williams has been good enough to link to my pages on the Parker Morris tables which has pulled in a few hits.
How would you like to live in a hobbit home, Grant Shapps?
https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/22/grant-shapps-new-build-homes
Council Housing RIP
November 19th, 2011
Millions of council tenants would be allowed to buy their homes at half price under government plans to extend the right-to-buy. The discount, double that currently available, is part of the government’s long-awaited, and much delayed, housing strategy paper, due to be published on Monday.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/19/council-tenants-buy-half-price
Of course it remains to be seen if they actually implement this, if those council tenants so entitled can afford to buy, even with the discount, but clearly Cameron and Co. are determined to finish what the Iron Lady could not.
Guardian comments – right to buy
November 18th, 2011
UPDATE: 29/9/13 Oh bollocks, I was trolled. I’ve just seen this exchange on a completely different article:-
Good luck with your trolling attempts, Mizzentop / RJM1968 / BusinessLeader. Don’t work too hard – the champagne bar in the Midland Hotel will be opening soon.
https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/27455358
Taken from:-
Austerity protesters outnumber Conservative delegates conference
I wish I’d spotted him first then I wouldn’t have wasted all that effort debating a troll. I’ll leave the rest here for you to amuse yourself with.
November 18th 2011
I’ve spent the day bashing seven bells out of the keyboard in support of council housing and against RTB in a discussion on the Guardian website with a gentleman from South Wales.
I’m Piecesofeight.
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16 November 2011 8:26PM
Thatcher was guilty of the greatest sin in my book of selling off council houses. She caused the housing crisis we have now and for that I could never forgive her.
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