Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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And I'm talking about there being loads of accommodation already being built or built in the area. Zoopla today are showing 195 properties for sale in Dover District. IF you believe Council's should provide accommodation for all and sundry why not try to get DDC to buy them and then rent them out as Social Housing? I doubt if they will be as big a source of loss as their commercial property investment.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:How would you feel if you spent almost half a million on a house in the countryside to find a dysfunctional family of stabby feral kids moving in next door?
My friends in West Harptree tell me that's
exactly how they felt when Mogg and sprogs moved in.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:
How would you feel if you spent almost half a million on a house in the countryside to find a dysfunctional family of stabby feral kids moving in next door?
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I find the inference that those in social housing are as described above highly insulting but typical of those with an insular NIMBY attitude.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Unfortunately the violent postcode gang culture which is becoming endemic in many parts of the UK is almost invariably centred on social housing estates. I suggest you read The Street Casino: Survival in Violent Street Gangs if you doubt this.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1447317181/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Or listen to Cressida Dick or Lynne Owens the new DG of the National Crime Agency or Simon Harding the author of the aforementioned book talking on the subject as I have recently.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Trying to make sense re this post .Do I understand re Bobs post that homes built at Aylesham and my goodness what a time it took years of arguments meant to house people in Dover District .Some were for sale and so many were social housing to help those on DDC waiting list.Bob are you saying a London Borough has bought them to house people from London?
yes DDC would do better to buy some properties to house people.I spent long enough on housing to understand the problems.
Jan I understand re feral kids. But sadly that is a fact and the system of Housing Officers to try and sort out problems is sadly lacking.I have been monitoring a house in St Radigunds for over a year at last something is being done.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Sue Nicholas wrote:Bob are you saying a London Borough has bought them to house people from London?
Yes.
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Keith Sansum1
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There has always been the issue of London boroughs housing there residents in Kent as houses are cheaper
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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So has my old borough purchased on the free market or not?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:So has my old borough purchased on the free market or not?
Yes. From Persimmon Homes. The 'locals' are talking of little else in Aylesham. They are not happy. Even the council house residents.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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any way aylesham has all ways been feral.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Hi
These issues are concerning
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:Yes. From Persimmon Homes. The 'locals' are talking of little else in Aylesham. They are not happy. Even the council house residents.
You've always maintained that the owners of property should be able to do?what it wants with it Bob, a good example being the former bingo hall in Deal so what is different about Persimmon homes doing a business deal with a London Borough, after all their first responsibility is to their shareholders?
This is getting away from the main point which is lack of social housing for those in need of it.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:You've always maintained that the owners of property should be able to do?what it wants with it Bob
Absolutely. I also believe that locals should know as much as possible what is happening in their patch, whilst realising that, like the professor in Uncle Vanya, I'm 'lecturing about things intelligent people have known all along, and stupid people aren't interested in anyway'.
Read into that what you will .....................
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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so just how many London council homes have been purchased in Aylsham,Bob ?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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I have always been a big supporter of building mass council housing, but importing people to fill them is not what the citizens of this country want or supports ?
we should have an emergency building plan for old people's bungalows, and prefabs
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Newham doesn't deliberately import people but they come from all over the world and settle there, a lot of them in sheds, outhouses and garages. The council runs a successful responsible landlord scheme but someone who is here illegally is hardly likely to complain to the authorities about their living conditions.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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The 'social housing' connection?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:The 'social housing' connection?
Patience dear boy, patience. All will be revealed.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson