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or near enough, sort of knew this would be round here when I saw it on the BBC homepage


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34718659


Local govt mimicing national govt standard procedure:


1. fail to fund/maintain old institution

2. Claim it's not fit for purpose/rescuable

3. Sell to private developer

4. Profit.

I'm afraid that Southwark are really neglecting their street properties as well. Under the Warm, Dry, Safe initiative for which they got EU money they were supposed to upgrade but the street properties- i.e. family houses, are not being kept in decent repair or being upgraded. So points 1-4 of the OP apply
uncleglen - it seems to me that council tenants could often do more to maintain their properties and keep them in decent condition. My previous neighbours were in a council house, and every weekend the guy seemed to be doing repairs or decorating. While others seem to leave their houses to rot and won't even pull out the weeds.

Some of my best neighbours have been people who are part of a housing association/ council scheme. The elderly lady opposite me and her husband (both long since passed) had the most beautiful flowers and they would regularly clean paint and tidy the flat. Miss them terribly, such nice people.


Louisa.

uncleglen Wrote:

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> I'm afraid that Southwark are really neglecting

> their street properties as well. Under the Warm,

> Dry, Safe initiative for which they got EU money

> they were supposed to upgrade but the street

> properties- i.e. family houses, are not being kept

> in decent repair or being upgraded. So points 1-4

> of the OP apply


I'm sure it's deliberate policy to run these down as Southwark Labour's policy is that any council tenancy which falls vacant and the property is deemed to be worth more than ?300K is to be sold rather than being offered to another tenant. This presumably covers every council 'street property' in ED these days, which is scandalous. Short-termism of the worst sort and it will lead remorselessly to ghettoisation. Our road (usual ED Victorian terrace) has a fair number of council houses on it, which makes for a good mix of residents. In future, this will just be for those who can afford ?1m + houses, while council/social housing is confined to estates.

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