DJKillaQueen

A tenner says the lotto winners will move...and if I lose...they'll pay :)) The reform of Housing Finaince is reform of the housing Revenue Subsidy System which is in fact a plan drawn up by the previous Labour government but which the Coalition have decided to implement. At present central government creams off a percentage of rental income collected by local authorities and then gives part of it back under the dubious title of 'subsidy'. In addition local authorities can borrow money for capaital programmes. Under the new system, local authorities will get to keep most of the rental income they collect but will have the amount they can borrow capped by central government. That cap will be set according to what central government thinks the local authority should be collecting in rents irregardless of what it actually does collect or not. We are still waiting to see the first figures for the new system but estimates suggest that Southwark may be around ?9million worse off each year......whilst having had almost ?300million of current outstanding debt written off at the start of the new system (Southwarks current capital debts are at around ?700million). The other reforms will still need to go through the parliamentary process and may or may not get through. My feelings are that the other reforms will have very little impact on the current shortage of available social housing or the lack of three and four bedroom homes. The fact is that in Southwark, existing housing stock just doesn't have the needed number of homes of that size. The average number of bids on a three or four bedroomed council homes is 300 each time one appears in the homsesearch magazine...and that is just from existing tenants needing bigger properties for their families. The bottom line is that we need to build more affordable housing and stop selling off the social housing we do still have. The coalition are doing nothing to tackle the over inflated housing market and it's consequences. There are other issues too. The coalition have drastically cut the money for decent homes. It won't even pay for 20% of the outstanding work to be done. So any talk by the coalition of commitment to decent homes is bs I'm afraid. By the way James, under the current laws, a succeded tenant can not be forced to move within six months of succession, or after a year from succession. It's absolutely fair and plenty of other local authorities use it..... The fact that Southwark chose not to make suceeded tenants downsize is unacceptable given how many families are crammed into one and two bedroomed flats whilst single suceeded tenants live in three and four bedroomed properties.

They might feel that at their age they are too settled but I'll put money on them moving within two years or more likely, exercising their 'right to buy' their council home.

The law allows for one succession. But although you reduced the succession rights to be in line with the law you never enforced the right to force tenants to downsize on succession (this has to be done within a year) so now we have many single tenants living in three and four bedroom properties (with no legal way to move them) whilst families living in one and two bedroom flats are at the mercy of a bidding system and can't get moved into a bigger property. Yeah really well done James! I think binary, you'd find that most tenants on winning the lottery would move. Council properties are on the whole very small and many are not up to decent homes standard. A far more effective way of maintaining social housing stock would be to remove the right to buy. That is why there is now a shortage of family sized social housing and we are seeing a return to unaccepatable levels of overcrowding in Southwark.

Doing my bit for the 99 again :))

Doing my bit for the 99 posts :)

She's definitely not a bull or a cow, but a tad mucky? Yes......

Do you wear any Rosie? ;-)

Psychopantic back slapping....now there's something you never see on the forum....right?

the manager mentioned to me that he pays ?3,000 a yr in business taxes and feels that this gives him the right to park on the roads in the area No it doesn't....and you should tell him that. If the vehicles weigh more than 1.5 tonnes he definitely needs an operating licence which defines where the vehicles will be parked. And to put that in context...a ford transit van weighs 2.5 tonnes. A small VW camper van comes in a just under a ton, but most larger motor homes defintely exceed 1.5 tonnes. So if he is parking large vans and camper vans as part of his business then he needs another licence. Peckham Rye on the Barry Road side IS part of ED ward btw but if you are indeed part of Peckham Rye and Nunhead ward then pm me and I can give you the details of the councillors. Also if you pm me the name and address of the business I'll have a quick look at their business operating licence, just on the off chance (if they are a motor related trade) that it stipulates any conditions with regards to storage of vehicles.

Photos/ video are a good idea (but don't put yourself at risk). I would suggest reporting the problem to the SNT and the local Community Wardens Officer too. Both can target offenders who are obviously not allowed to ride along public footpaths and issue fines. In the case of delivery riders for companies. Send the photos with the evidence of which company is using the footpath to the licensing office. The best way to force these companies to take the complaints seriously is to threaten them with loss of their operating license and the council can do that if they have enough evidence.

Hmmm I want to make films and I know what'll get me my break....some inane factual entertainment programmed about what ED dwellers think of ummmm ED! OK cruel I know.....but self righteous? Definitely not.......:))

H is right in that men (generally speaking of course) are more forthright in negotiating pay scales, and value themselves higher. Having said that...a lot of wages are not negotiable and for a long time it was employers (usually male) that had some strange idea that a man and woman in the same job should not be paid equally. That can never be justified.

What's the food like in there? Do the meatwagon provide all the meat? Oh and is there a bar....no point me checking in (for a *cough* holiday) if there's no bar or football pitch. I know the drugs are plentiful though.

Though all is fair in Love and War as they say.....

apidistra is right. Local authorirty funding from central government partly depends on the population count that a census provides, so it's really important that people return the form.

How did you do?

I sold her to Inter Milan for the price of some bigger goals!........couldn't possibly have her around with bigger goals, she scores too many 'own' ones as it it!

But H you forget that some of the TV researchers/ producers that post on here are working on programmes with a budget and every one is being paid, apart from the people they seek. There is a difference though between asking someone to feature in a show as an intergral part of the documantary (that is never paid) and asking for someone to work on a show, be it even just in the capacity of a walk on/ extra (which should always be paid). Just on a wider front, I think many people (certainly true for me) bemoan the demise of quality documentary, being increasingly replaced by cheap meaningless 'lifestyle' so called 'factual entertainment' (all the result of having to fill the schedules of the countless add on channels that hardly anyone watches).

Yeah the council are going to pay particular attention to any reappearing illegal ramps.....it's on their radar.

That's quite poetic PR...at least some effort went into it, unlike the post before! Can I add you to my fan club now Tarot? :))

Well every tenant for example has as part of the their tenancy agreement that vehicles not displaying a current tax disc will be removed. Community wardens have the power to report vehicles not displaying a current tax disk and you will regularly see vehicles clamped because of this - clamps placed by Southwark Council. They are then usually removed within 24 hours.

Why not?

Nope...southwark will remove untaxed vehicles. They do it every day and pay a contractor to remove untaxed vehicles.

There are 20.....lol steveo

If the vehicles aren't taxed then just ring parking enforcement. Southwark are pretty swift at clamping and removing untaxed vehicles.