General Discussion
an interesting article in this week's Inside Housing about the older and younger generations and the housing market. http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/blaming-the-victim/7007949.article
Catch 22 though this business of bungalows becoming houses. If extended outwards and upwards then they increase the stock of family houses that many are needing to move into. On the other hand, with each and every bungalow that is extended fewer retirement type properties are available. And on the subject of people moving here from other parts of the country (guilty as charged m'lud), we ...
Well from what I can gather Andrew Neil has asked David Cameron (and I believe also George Osborne) to go on his programme but neither has taken up the offer so far. I so hope the leaders do get interviewed by AN or JP in the run up to this election. Might bore the wotsits off much of the electorate but I'll take great delight in watching.
Please, please everyone do not come down on me like a ton of bricks when you read the following. I'd just like to put forward the thought that part of the housing crisis in this country is being caused by more and more elderly people living for longer and longer. Therefore housing stock that would have been released back onto the market or made available in the social housing sector some 20 ...
Hands up all those who think the PM didn't do at all well in that interview with Justin Leigh last night? I know what I think. Now, and with absolutely no disrespect to Justin, if someone like him (Justin) can show the PM in such a poor light then imagine what an interviewer such as Andrew Neil or Jeremy Paxman could do. So, here's a suggestion. Instead of there being leadership debates ...
http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Pictures-Exeter-MPs-home-region-s-expensive/story-25943553-detail/story.html
Well, we shall indeed have to wait and see what impact the cycle path, once completed, does actually have on the Dawlish economy. However, the cycle/walk way along the Camel estuary in Cornwall between Padstow and Wadebridge is phenomenally succesful. I've been to Wadebridge several times during the holiday season and it is just buzzing with people, cyclists, and cycling shops. And here's ...
A quote from that debate (see column 69WH). My emphasis in red "It is also worth noting that one of the reasons why we are having this debate is the frustration that many of us have experienced—I myself was in local government for a decade or more—about the lack of power that people have had over what is happening around them compared with the power of somebody in a suit in Whitehall ...
http://www.citizensrail.org/photo-competition-win-a-nights-stay-at-dartington/
There's a bit in this week's Gazette about the debate initated by our MP concerning this. Click on this link http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm150120/halltext/150120h0002.htm#15012054000003 and then scroll down to 4.30pm if you want to read what happened verbatim.
