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Woman finds out her London flat will be demolished
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- čas přidán 26. 09. 2023
- Residents were shocked to hear the new 23-storey apartment block above the Thames in south-east London which they have just moved into is set to be demolished by the council.
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Jewellery designer Isabelle White, 33, said getting a flat in the block in Greenwich had seemed ‘too good to be true’ after living in Manchester for a year because of a lack of affordable housing in the capital. She moved into her one-bed, £1,200 a month flat only three weeks before the council announced its plans.
After counting 26 main deviations from the original planning permission, the Royal Borough of Greenwich ordered the developers of the Mast Quay II development to pull it down. It means tenants in 204 flats now face the prospect of finding somewhere else to live.
The developer, Comer Homes, said: 'We are justly proud of our track record of delivering high-quality developments across the UK. In our view, the council’s concerns regarding Mast Quay Phase II can be addressed through following normal process and engaging with us on a retrospective planning application.'
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That's disgusting. I feel bad for the people dealing with this.
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One bed flat for £1200 sounds absolutely overpriced.
Thats because it is. Its more than I make in a month.
For london it's not terrible, especially for a brand spanking new place
Not at all. One room in shared house in east london is £800 plus bills so £1200 PCM for one bedroom flat in London is much cheaper.
If that is the rent for a month then it is really cheap for London.
You don't live in London I take IT? Average 1 bed in Greenwich: £1,670 so 1200 is a bargain
£1200 per month... for a ONE bedroom FLAT!?
I'm paying less than that for a four-bedroom detached house with a double-wide garage and half an acre garden.
Where? Outer Mongolia? 🙃😁
Gotta be a council house at that price. I'm jealous lol
not in london lol
Wales?
4 bedroom for less than £1200?! Must be out of London and in a remote far place in the Middle of no where in the North.
The irony being that because it wasn’t built with the floor to ceiling windows and what have you, I guess the rental rates were more affordable compared to all the other luxury flats in the area. That area being Woolwich… because London can’t have any affordable boroughs anymore. So this one is ordered to be torn down so some proper expensive flats can be built as the council originally approved.
It would have been agreed that the partments were to be affordable before construction. And the probles were deeperr than just smaller windows.
Anyway I really do detest the idea that low income homes should have small pokey windows that would look better on a WWII bunker.
@@chrishartley4553 "Anyway I really do detest the idea that low income homes should have small pokey windows that would look better on a WWII bunker." The practical reason for that are that larger windows allow more heat to escape, so it costs more to heat.
The building company needs to compensate the residents.
No
Never In a millennia of Sunday's that will happen in present day Tory UK.
@@huwzebediahthomas9193 Sadly true.
What's the chances someone involved is a Tory donor.
what a ridiculous comment. You are aware central government has nothing to with this issue. It will be a local council issue.
In this instance it's a labour council.
@@huwzebediahthomas9193 but hey that doesn't fit the whole "we have to hate the Tories" and the "labour are for the people" narrative does it.
I don't know why people are complaining, welcome to vulture capitalism, the best system in the world .........................for oligarchs, landlords, royals, lords and the elites.
A 3 bedroom house in the 1950 and im talking solid built would cost in today's money just shy of 40k, land has been bottle necked by the government with place laws to force up prices to please wealthy donor's and over the past 50 years it's been at it's worst, relax planing laws for people who plan to live there for 20 years or more have it written into the contract that if they sell the land within 20 years the full cost of the land will be deducted and let people build town's and villages organically on unused government land and they will take care of the local wildlife and area because like any village they value the place they live.
The flat I (suffer) in, not live, is very cramped, carelessly designed, flaw-filled, poorly maintained, bug and rodent-infested, and badly managed, and the estate in which it is situated leaves so much to be desired and has become a torture chamber to me rather than the so-called ''high quality'' flat it was sold as being prior to signing the joke of a tenancy agreement over 20 depressing years ago.
It has little chance of being 'demolished' and rebuilt to a better standard with facilities that meet my and my fellow long-suffering neighbors' needs.
Therefore, my hope for change here in Brent is in vain, making me feel even more disillusioned.
Is that " Grenfell style" cladding?
It's not no
She's taken it really well.
She is on a low income.
The local council will have arranged alternative accommodation.
Plus the local council will pay for her moving costs…..
If I got all of that. I wouldn’t be worried either 😂
Just another hastle from modern British Tory life. Ho-hum.
THAT is why, the rip off will continue, it is easy target and easy money.
Just like Khan and ULEZ, easy money, the ordinary plebs will simply cough up the new tax.
No the council don’t!! Hopes everyone don’t get evicted out off London ❤❤
This happened to my family
Whoever gave planning permission for that should be pulled down.
£1200 a month? Blimey that almost what i earn.
nothing rented is really yours, learn that
I'm sorry and angry
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@@clearlynotwoke4929is clearly not able to form coherent sentences.
I don't know why people are complaining, welcome to vulture capitalism, the best system in the world .........................for oligarchs, landlords, royals, lords and the elites.
Why do you right wing types hate the working class?@@clearlynotwoke4929
at least they told her before hand, in Ukraine all you get is a siren
Well the building looks hideous anyway
No it doesn’t,.it’s state of the art
Gentrification
This is criminal. Pricing the working class out.
Who is designing the architecture.. British culture is gone.
Don’t mention British culture on this news outlet.. they can’t stand it
You kinda made the point I was going to make about British culture within your comment, if you catch my drift. There’s really no need for me to type anything else, I just wanted to draw attention to it.
Know what I mean?
She need a hair cut hahahah
Thanks for continues updates 👍I'd rather trade the Crypto market as its more profitable. I make an average of $34,020 per week even though I barely trade myself
You look very cool
BS
Where are the English people?
They invaded the Costa del Sol.
In Spain 🤣🤣🤣