>A hundred metres from Jason and Denisa’s front door is Vincent Square, where Robert Jenrick, the runner-up in the Tory leadership election and a former housing minister, lives in a £4m Georgian townhouse. Stand on the roof of the Lillington Estate and you can see the Palace of Westminster.
Maybe this is the market signalling that it doesn't make sense to house Jason there.
This article states clearly: people in Zone 1 council flats have such a golden ticket that they won't leave for a private rental even when covered in sh*t!
I live above where this happened and it affected me and the other flat below me, this is not a new thing going on this happens all year round where the two flats below start getting back surge then I can’t use my water at all as dont want to add to problem with people being flooded, I went without water for 5 days the last time had to buy it, the council didn’t even offer to get water for me, now have problem with heating, this council is a joke
"They focus too much on remedial rather than preventative works."
This is a huge issue. I phoned Southwark Council to complain about flooding on a communal balcony in our estate building, and was told "we don't do works that prevent problems, we only come out when problems have occured".
So instead of spending a couple of hundred pounds to fix a pipe, they'll wait a few years until they'll have to fix tens of thousands of pounds of water damage instead. The madness of post-austerity local government!
>A hundred metres from Jason and Denisa’s front door is Vincent Square, where Robert Jenrick, the runner-up in the Tory leadership election and a former housing minister, lives in a £4m Georgian townhouse. Stand on the roof of the Lillington Estate and you can see the Palace of Westminster.
Maybe this is the market signalling that it doesn't make sense to house Jason there.
This article states clearly: people in Zone 1 council flats have such a golden ticket that they won't leave for a private rental even when covered in sh*t!
The ghost of Shirley Porter lives on…
OK but a council is a council, and it is there to provide for the people who live there. The ‘market’ is not a thing when society needs to provide.
I live above where this happened and it affected me and the other flat below me, this is not a new thing going on this happens all year round where the two flats below start getting back surge then I can’t use my water at all as dont want to add to problem with people being flooded, I went without water for 5 days the last time had to buy it, the council didn’t even offer to get water for me, now have problem with heating, this council is a joke
"They focus too much on remedial rather than preventative works."
This is a huge issue. I phoned Southwark Council to complain about flooding on a communal balcony in our estate building, and was told "we don't do works that prevent problems, we only come out when problems have occured".
So instead of spending a couple of hundred pounds to fix a pipe, they'll wait a few years until they'll have to fix tens of thousands of pounds of water damage instead. The madness of post-austerity local government!
Wish I could afford designer cutlery. But I have to pay for my own home.
I also have to pay for all repairs out of my own pocket. There’s certainly no one handing me ‘compensation’ when things break down.