Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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'Homeless Londoners in Lambeth set to be housed in new-builds in Dover district'
(Lambeth’s population is highly diverse, a characteristic visible in the breadth of ethnic and cultural traditions seen through the length of the borough. 63% of residents describe their ethnicity as other than White British.)
** N.B. This article is available in 22 different languages.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/homeless-londoners-set-to-be-housed-in-new-builds-in-kent-di-310070/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Must have missed that in the councils local plan document. To be fair London councils are probably the only ones that can afford these local new build prices.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,058
A uniparty equalities spokesperson said:
'It's only fair that other, less-privileged areas share the capital's many advantages; but as there no advantages, it's only fair that they share its many problems.'
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,529
Where are these new-builds? Aylesham?
Whitfield?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Part of Canterbury tent city on the ring road.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Karlos wrote:Where are these new-builds? Aylesham?
Whitfield?
Why not? Compared to London prices they are as 'cheap as chips'?
Cost of 'council house, in Greenwich £461,100 per home.
https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2023/01/18/greenwichs-council-home-building-programme-costs-soar-to-352m/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,864
We can manage an influx of people so long as we get a sizable increase in housing, NHS dentists, doctors, schools etc.
I doubt it will include Deal as they only seem to house those Londoners with deep pockets
BTW. According to Zoopla a 3 bed terraced house sold in Lambeth for £36,750 in March.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Jan Higgins wrote:We can manage an influx of people so long as we get a sizable increase in housing, NHS dentists, doctors, schools etc.
Sure, but don't expect Kent to look like 'the Garden of England' -
or even 'England'!
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
we have a few disadvantaged parents/children from London now living in Whitfield already, for the special school. They seem pleasant enough, but not all are english
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,911
Surely you do this once you don't have thousands on your own waiting lists ??
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,058
If only he'd been given a new-build in the Dover district..
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,911
Travelling on the underground fairly regular when it's crowded it's a wonder there are not more accidents with all the pushing as shoving as trains arrive
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,058
'Accidents'.
You'd do well at the BBC or The Guardian, KS.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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