In article ,
says...

Aggreed. There are plenty of jobs about.

Come to Bridlington. You'll have your views changed very quickly.

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Conor

"Cogito Eggo Sum" - "I think, therefore I am a waffle"

In article ,
says...

I write software but can't afford to buy a new house in the town I live. Do
I have a reasonable gripe against someone that moved out of London or should
I just move where I can afford a property?

Who are 'agricultural workers' to get special treatment?

Please don't tell me you're that stupid.

--
Conor

"Cogito Eggo Sum" - "I think, therefore I am a waffle"

In article ,
says...

What, you mean the poor dears might have to travel to work?

So already on low wages they then have to add another £50+ a week to
their outgoings in order to get to work?

You're unbelievalbe. Good to tell you're a Southerner.

--
Conor

"Cogito Eggo Sum" - "I think, therefore I am a waffle"

In article ,
says...

I can't afford to buy a house in the town I was born in so I had to look
elsewhere. Why should people in villages or certain jobs get special
treatment? They will have to do the same as the rest of us. Buy cheap, maybe
in another town, work hard and eventually have enogh money to be able to buy
exactly where you want.

Good to telly you're a townie. Please tell me how a farmhand manages to
do this without having so little left after travelling that it's
pointless working? Who then does the farmhands job?



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Conor

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In article ,
says...
Conor wrote:

snip

static whilst the house prices have shot up 100%. Even a couple on
decent wages for the area can no longer afford to buy a house on a 3
times multiplier of annual earnings.

So buy a flat then!

Thisd is not the South East. Flats are very rare and then only
available for rent for mainly the DSS.

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Conor

"Cogito Eggo Sum" - "I think, therefore I am a waffle"

In article ,
says...

Get on the council list, live there for a few years and get a discount.
While your doing that, go back to school and improve yourself.

If you can't get a council house then tough - join the rest of us. I waited
two years for mine. I lived there for 17 years and got a nice discount on
the property.

During the wait for a council property, I lived with my mother-in-law. Life
is tough sometimes - get on with it and stop whinging.

This is not the South East. Current waiting times for East Yorkshire
are hitting a decade. It is so bad that the council banned applications
from anyone not from East Yorkshire some several years ago.


--
Conor

"Cogito Eggo Sum" - "I think, therefore I am a waffle"

In article ,
says...



Was thinking of OPE, The Quadrant and Gispyville mate.


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"Conor" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

Of course! They moan about expensive housing, but you can be sure they
would
object to any new housing too.

And new housing costs how much? Oh yeah, the same as the others.

It does if you just build one or two new houses. However if we did not have
such tight planning regulation and VAT disincentives for renovating old
buildings, there would have been a much greater consistent supply over the
last few years which would almost certainly have dampened the house price
inflation.

--
Conor

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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:06:45 +0000 (UTC), Mike Bristow
wrote:


Areas within an hours commute of central london by car include

Nice attempt at diversion,

You'll find no mention of commuting to central london by car in my post.

Yes, that's nice, but it is irrelevant when talking about being an
hours commute from central london.

Oh really ? It takes 32 minutes to travel the 30 miles from my local
station to kings cross.


greg



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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:28:45 GMT, Tony Bryer wrote:

In article , Greg
Hennessy wrote:
Try the nationalised planning system courtesy of the town and
country planning act 1947.

A spiteful piece of legislation whose only purpose was to
outlaw the mechanism by which 1.5+ million privately built,
financed and *affordable* houses in the 20s and 30s. Couldn't
have that doncha know.

But, as you imply, the Conservatives, far from scrapping it,
have embraced and extended it for their own ends.

You'll get no argument from me on that score.
Politicians dont like surrendering centralised power.


You'll hear
them harp on about the need to accept the discipline of market
forces when you are shutting down a mine or steelworks, but not
when someone wants to replace a suburban bungalow or two with a
block of flats.

I want a return to the pre war situation where local authorities and local
authorities alone decided that is was in the best interests of their rate
payers to grant permission to build high quality affordable housing at
densities of 8-12/acre for the equivalent of 20-25k in todays money.


greg



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I said just eat my burger, baby,make you smart as Charlie Chan.
You say the hot sauce can't be beat. Sit back and open wide.