Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey Development Vehicle Dead
Haringey Labour has announced that the controversial Haringey development vehicle (HDV) proposal developed under the Kober administration will be ditched if Labour maintains control of the council in the upcoming elections.
With the local Lib Dems promising the same, the fate of the HDV seems sealed.
Council leader Claire Kober (Lab) announced at the end of January that she was standing down as Haringey’s leader amid in-fighting within the party, particularly over the HDV partnership with developer Lendlease. Under the arrangements the company would take more than £2bn of council assets and own a 50% stake. In return it would "promise" to create 6,400 homes and 20,000 jobs.
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Permalink Reply by DTW on
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The encumbrance is on those that have scrapped the policy. Otherwise they have chosen the status quo.
I expect they want the status quo, the anti HDV lot have it good and are actually very conservative. Preserve, preseve preserve
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Doing nothing IS preferable to what the HDV was going to do. The StArt project in St Ann's is an example of what could be done. You're all just wonderful people thinking that what was being done was progress and OK.
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Preferable to someone who is middle class and has secure suitable accommodation. And that’s the point - you and others just don’t really care about those who need serious housing solutions.
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Have you read any of the supporting evidence for Landlease's behaviour where these Public Private Partnerships have been used? It would have been the tranche of sales off-plan to overseas investors and the leftovers priced exhorbitantly for those with the bank of mum and dad to get them in.
I'm not in the secure suitable accomodation group, but I don't want to see more overpriced development happening just to prop up banks and baby boomers.
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You're not talking about me there and as I've said time and again, the HDV only looks like it's providing serious housing solutions. It's proving investment opportunities for foreigners, profits for a foreign property developer who is happy to engage corruptly in a tender process and share flats for young professionals to rent.
None of this is family housing and that is certainly what was being demolished. Try to rent a three bed flat and you compete with three people sharing. If the flat has one double room and two single rooms (i.e. family accommodation) then you're not competing with them but the returns to the investors are lower.
To attack me as middle class and in secure accommodation is wrong as an argument and wrong full stop. I know what it's like trying to rent around here and it's hell.
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And yet you are happy to prefer that hell.
I look forward to serious substantial proposals but we won’t get them. We all know that. The best the momentum Labour Party seems to have come up with is a borough wide consultation policy. Pathetic
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I'm just considering people even LESS fortunate than myself that will find themselves in an even hotter hell. This is NOT Momentum. They are nothing to do with this. They completely failed to deselect Claire Kober, they do not have influence here.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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@ DTW
How do you define " middle class " ?
I worked for an employer so I would say I'm working class.
But these terms are obsolete and meaningless except as a term of abuse to describe someone with whose opinions you disagree.
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rent to yuppies? can yuppies not afford to buy being a yuppie and all? new flats all sold to foreign investors ? lol
you seem to be a tad sensationalist, like a bit of drama?
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John has quite a bit of personal experience in seeing this happen in the area over the past few years.
Yuppies are even renting now unless they have the Bank of Mum & Dad available to stump up the £50 - 60K for a 10% deposit.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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A quick note to say that anyone who is genuinely concerned with local housing affordability issues has a great chance to put their money where their mouth is and volunteer with the locally run StArt Housing Group who are making excellent progress at being chosen as the developer for the development of the St Ann's Hospital site.
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