Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
House prices
Speak to the estate agents, something unprecedented it's happening with the cost of home ownership, especially between wood green tube and ally pally.
It's possible this government may become known as seeing through the largest distribution of wealth from the poor to the rich ever ....
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Do not get me wrong, I am not advocating it, but you raise some interesting points if we are heading back that way...
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Permalink Reply by David on
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Worth reading this article, from the The Socialist.
Posted by David Kaplan, TUSC candidate for Harringay ward, along with Kiran Patel and Patrick Burland
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Permalink Reply by LSquared on
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Newcastle would work well for that. Pretty good for grown up (aka state subsidised) culture at the Sage and the Baltic, very safe, and loads of central new-build apartments from the last boom.
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Crisis not crash. We probably are already in crisis when you think of the London property market. House on my street , which would have sold last year for £320k, went on market for £475k beginning of April and now shows as sold for £500 k in estate agents. This is a 3 bedroom house!!!!
Ordinary salary earners cannot afford these prices. Rental gives no guarantees of being able to live comfortably at a reasonable price. People need decent homes where they can have families in stable surroundings so that mixed communities thrive. We are not getting that in London.
We are already in crisis and neither the Tories nor Labour are dealing with this.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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You're so wrong, FPR. Glasgow can beat anything London has to offer. And,to the point, a young member of my family just bought a ground-floor two-bedroom, completely modernised flat for £44,000. And this, 30 minutes by car from the city centre.
A further 50 mins and you're on the shores of Loch Lomond. The only thing you have to worry about is the occasional helicopter dropping through your pub ceiling
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London is experiencing something that only happens once every thousand years or so
I so agree with FPR. And how can Billy Hole drag in Dublin and the celtic tiger by the scruff of the neck, rather than taking the long(boat) view. The Dublin housing bubble that finally popped in the spring of 1014 was caused by rival gangs of Viking developers, Fair Foreigners from Norway and Dark Foreigners from Denmark. That the aged Irish High King, Brian Boru, fell victim to the sword of Broder in the Good Friday DisAgreement at Clontarf on 23rd April 1014 was just the final tragic blow in a comedy of ghost estates which featured Viking adventurers on either side in Ireland's earlier civil war. Now where was Nigel Farrage and his BNP when we needed them?
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With you on this one FPR - I grew up in Newcastle and have spent time in most of the UK's big cities and outside London there just aren't enough people to support a decent range of alternative and grassroots cultures. You might get a "scene" like Manchester in the 90s but it's just a different flavour of homogenous, no actual variety... so here's your townie bars, here's your rock pub, here's an art gallery and a theatre scraping by on arts subsidies, if you are lucky here's a few pubs where live bands play to bored locals.
For people whose tastes are mainstream or run to state-funded culture, or people who just love chilling out in the countryside I agree, why ever would you bother with the downsides of London when you can live somewhere cheaper and cleaner and still find things that excite you. But if what you want is variety and the opportunity to do things you never thought about til you stumbled across it, London is very hard to beat.
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A lot of my old art school buddies ended up there in the 90s. The times I've visited I found it a bit smug, but I was probably in the wrong area
Anyway, if we are looking for places with London culture but with cheap housing, Brighton is a fire to London's frying pan ;)
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Permalink Reply by Robert Pike on
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Those commenting on this post might be interested in this event during LFA featuring David Lammie:
Housing Londoners: Is it just a numbers game?
16 June | 19:00 - 20:30Kings Place, 90 York Way , N1 9AGOne million more Londoners will need homes over the next decade. Yet the current level of house building in London is only skimming the surface of housing need, and the impact on levels of affordability is well documented. This debate will take as its starting point the desperate need to house our growing, changing population, and examine how we can achieve the numbers, while creating great neighbourhoods and quality homes that reflect both our changing lifestyles and an aesthetic value that London can be proud of.
Speakers:
Claire Bennie – Development Director, Peabody
Richard Blakeway – Deputy Mayor for Housing, Land and Property, Greater London Authority
Teresa Borsuk – Executive Director, Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects
David Lammy MP – MP for Tottenham
Rob Perrins – Managing Director, Berkeley Group
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