General Discussion
As well as a need for small (one bedroom?) starter homes and sheltered accommodation might I suggest that there may also be a demand for more bungalows? I know there are quite a few in Dawlish already but might there be a demand for more on the new estates due to be built in the future? I know an 'issue' with bungalows is that they take up a bigger footprint then those other types of ...
Thought I'd post this as I found it an interesting read. It's written by Conservative MP Richard Bacon and is in the latest edition of Inside Housing. The bigger picture 29/05/2015 | By Richard Bacon While housing was an issue for some during the election, the bigger points of discussion on the doorstep were the economy, the NHS and immigration. Why ...
I have personally experienced, this very day, the absolute chaos that is Southmead Hospital's on site traffic management. I won't call it a on site transport management scheme as that would imply that it somehow has a method and a logic behind it all. How an accident has not happened yet (irony of ironies eh?) I do not know. Buses, cars, push bikes, taxis and pedestrians all not only to be ...
see page 28 of this document https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382254/stats_summary_aug14_final_V2.pdf
I wonder if high rents and low wages might have something to do with the HB Bill? And then of course.........if this Tory government does indeed introduce Right to Buy for all HA tenants in affordable rented accommodation, thereby reducing the amount of stock available to rent at lower than market rents, then surely as night follows day the HB bill will increase as even more people will have to ...
Teignbridge Private landlords get 54.5% of £35.01M housing benefit. Top landlords in this area are: Landlord Amount 1 Harbuck Housing £246,838 2 Home Farm Trust £101,591 3 Cornerstone £97,764 4 New Dawn Lettings £90,844 5 Devon Rose £82,270 6 Freshmove Properties £48,532 7 Shared ...
I've just looked at the article that roberta gave us the link to. Here it is again - just click on it. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/interactive-housing-benefit-millionaires-your-5569676 If you read it and scroll down you will see that there is a way of finding out about HB in the local area - in this case Teignbridge. Type in Teignbridge and do a search. You will then get our local ...
For those who wish to keep up to date with what is going on re this matter here is the link that will take you to the Appeal documents http://gis.teignbridge.gov.uk/TeignbridgePlanningOnline/Results.aspx?Type=Appeal&Refval=15/00012/REF There is a very recent addition, if you are interested in having a read, dated Thursday 21st May 2015 - Appellant's Final submission.
http://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/elections2015 and scroll down
and to look at what I've just said above in a slightly different way. Given that the Lib Dems nationally were/are so electorally unpopular why did the two Lib Dem candidates standing in Dawlish Central and North East ward get all those votes cast for them? I don't know why, no-one knows why. But I suspect I know why.
