General Discussion
Aye, it could be.
Ziggy are these the ones in the outer car park that were closed this year and had the three portaloos placed in front of them?
It is presently TDC's policy that the new housing developments in Dawlish scheduled to be built in the Gatehouse/Secmaton/Langdon areas of the town should provide 25% affordable housing (affordable = 1.rented up to 80% of market rates and 2.shared ownership of some kind). TDC's policy is that ideally the split of the 25% affordable housing should be 75% rented, 25% shared ownership. So, ...
Read this: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/11/uk-care-home-sector-could-lose-10-of-beds-in-five-years
Questions for Redrow (Answers in red) Phase 1 (10 questions) 1. How many dwellings in total will be built in phase 1? 106 2. Of these how many will be open market dwellings and how many affordable dwellings? 74 open market, 32 affordable 3. Of the open market dwellings how many will be two bed, how many three, how many 4+ beds? Approx 29x 2bed, the rest 3 bed 4. Please can ...
From what I understand it was a meeting for councillors only to attend. Nothing formal, just some representatives from Redrow in the Manor House for a couple of hours to answer questions from any of the town councillors. As it happens I submitted some questions and one of the councillors very kindly posed them for me. I will collate my questions and the answers that were sent back to me and ...
Just to point out that the (minimum) living wage of £7.20 per hour wef April 2016 only applies to those aged 25 and over. So if you are under that age the prospect of owning your own home may be even more out of reach than for those aged 25+. How times have changed. I can remember back in the 60s when lots of couples got married around about the age of 21/22, and were able to take out a ...
This is the situation as I see it. Affordable housing provision is already going up the swanney due to recent government legislation (HA rents no longer going up in line with inflation and actually falling therefore the amount of money HAs can borrow against their rents is substantially less than it has been hitherto). Therefore HAs have less money to buy housing from developers/build their ...
So, Dawlish has an ageing population whose housing needs should be met. Single storey accommodation (bungalows rather than apartments?) for those whose health enables them to live independently as well as sheltered and care homes of various kinds for those who need varying degrees of support. This is what the Teignbridge Local Plan says about Dawlish: “The allocation of land for a 50 bed ...
Come April 2016 the government's new living wage of £7.20 per hour will come into effect. If someone earnt that amount per hour and worked a 40 hour week then their salary would be £14,976 pa. Let's call that £15,000. The cheapest flat shown above is £119,950. Let's call that £120,000. So that flat costs 8 times that person's salary. The cheapest house shown above is £115,000. ...
