Go-ahead for 250 new Lewisham Council homes (From This Is Local London)

if we didnt have stupid govts. allowing millions of people to come here we wouldnt have a shortage of houses !

papaleigh wrote:
if we didnt have stupid govts. allowing millions of people to come here we wouldnt have a shortage of houses !

...indeed - get used to building over blade of grass in the u.k. to meet the demand for housing!! b.t.w. - did anyone see the daily wail ? the fiasco of the security company at the olympics ?? jeeze... people who cannot even grasp basic english employed as 'security' staff... the 'staff' at the important company training seminars listening to their head-phones and others slumped over desks asleep instead of listening to the important security advice ??? no wonder this country has fallen down pan - and yet - look at heathrow airport yesterday...indigeno
us brits volunteering free of charge - speaking perfect english... to greet folk arriving for the olypimpics at the airport!! so we pay - idiots from all over the world who have arrived here in the u.k. to be security staff - and don't pay indigenous staff at the airport!! and look who's having to help-out... our wonderful armed forces brought in to show the world how to secure the place!! it makes one soo proud to see our decent, honest, armed forces coming to the rescue once again!! but please give each squaddie a grand bonus for turning up!! ...i'm sure they would rather be with their families having just returned from overseas!! as for the security company - hang yer head in shame!!

250 Homes is a drop in the Ocean

There must be 3 mill waiting for a flat all over the country

Yeah mate i saw than on the Bbc i hope someone has vetted these so called security staff as the last thing we need with the whole watching is some one not supposed to be in the country getting a job in security

Hey Karl next time you hold a knuckle draggers ball fund raiser dahn da Brickies how about having some of dem darh spelin lesssons fer dah geezers like innit.


Ear bruv got anymore of dem photos of Treanor ?? ROFL !!

That was going quite well until the third paragraph.

Giving a cut of the rent to a private company or housing association ain't going to help the Council's finances.

To the anti-immigration folk: our housing shortage is more a result of the money raised from Right To Buy schemes not being used to build more housing. It's also contributed to our housing benefit bill being so high. Private landlords charge what they can get away with, councils tend to charge more reasonable, realistic, affordable rents.

Primeval Mudd wrote:
That was going quite well until the third paragraph. Giving a cut of the rent to a private company or housing association ain't going to help the Council's finances. To the anti-immigration folk: our housing shortage is more a result of the money raised from Right To Buy schemes not being used to build more housing. It's also contributed to our housing benefit bill being so high. Private landlords charge what they can get away with, councils tend to charge more reasonable, realistic, affordable rents.

...maybe - a tad - but having masses of people arriving here without figuring out where they are all supposed to reside is total madness... weak immigration control has not helped the situation... we all know this to be the truth.

commenting scoffer wrote:

Primeval Mudd wrote:
That was going quite well until the third paragraph. Giving a cut of the rent to a private company or housing association ain't going to help the Council's finances. To the anti-immigration folk: our housing shortage is more a result of the money raised from Right To Buy schemes not being used to build more housing. It's also contributed to our housing benefit bill being so high. Private landlords charge what they can get away with, councils tend to charge more reasonable, realistic, affordable rents.

...maybe - a tad - but having masses of people arriving here without figuring out where they are all supposed to reside is total madness... weak immigration control has not helped the situation... we all know this to be the truth.

Bleedin' Australians, coming over here, taking all our bar jobs.

Actually, net migration for 2011 was 252,000, less than 0.4% of the population. Admittedly that will be a larger proportion cumulatively but there is also increased life expectancy to consider.

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I do think you're underestimating the importance of rent pricing and the lack of council house building. If private rents were more affordable fewer people would need social housing, be they migrant or native (for want of a better word.) If more social housing had been built there should be more affordable rents.

Primeval Mudd wrote:

commenting scoffer wrote:

Primeval Mudd wrote: That was going quite well until the third paragraph. Giving a cut of the rent to a private company or housing association ain't going to help the Council's finances. To the anti-immigration folk: our housing shortage is more a result of the money raised from Right To Buy schemes not being used to build more housing. It's also contributed to our housing benefit bill being so high. Private landlords charge what they can get away with, councils tend to charge more reasonable, realistic, affordable rents.

...maybe - a tad - but having masses of people arriving here without figuring out where they are all supposed to reside is total madness... weak immigration control has not helped the situation... we all know this to be the truth.

Bleedin' Australians, coming over here, taking all our bar jobs. Actually, net migration for 2011 was 252,000, less than 0.4% of the population. Admittedly that will be a larger proportion cumulatively but there is also increased life expectancy to consider. http://www.ons.gov.u k/ons/taxonomy/index .html?nscl=Populatio n I do think you're underestimating the importance of rent pricing and the lack of council house building. If private rents were more affordable fewer people would need social housing, be they migrant or native (for want of a better word.) If more social housing had been built there should be more affordable rents.

Well said.

Primeval Mudd wrote:

commenting scoffer wrote:

Primeval Mudd wrote: That was going quite well until the third paragraph. Giving a cut of the rent to a private company or housing association ain't going to help the Council's finances. To the anti-immigration folk: our housing shortage is more a result of the money raised from Right To Buy schemes not being used to build more housing. It's also contributed to our housing benefit bill being so high. Private landlords charge what they can get away with, councils tend to charge more reasonable, realistic, affordable rents.

...maybe - a tad - but having masses of people arriving here without figuring out where they are all supposed to reside is total madness... weak immigration control has not helped the situation... we all know this to be the truth.

Bleedin' Australians, coming over here, taking all our bar jobs. Actually, net migration for 2011 was 252,000, less than 0.4% of the population. Admittedly that will be a larger proportion cumulatively but there is also increased life expectancy to consider. http://www.ons.gov.u k/ons/taxonomy/index .html?nscl=Populatio n I do think you're underestimating the importance of rent pricing and the lack of council house building. If private rents were more affordable fewer people would need social housing, be they migrant or native (for want of a better word.) If more social housing had been built there should be more affordable rents.

...first, i never click on 'links' posted by anyone on here - second, baseless point about 'private' rents - how do you regulate it ? you can't... also... what have all the councils across the country done with all the money they raised by selling their councils homes then ?? - if our population rises - we need more social housing - simples!! all these guys jumping into lorries heading here from france - just want to land in blighty - they don't want to 'rent' private - they will go into council housing stock - probably to top of queue from their 'homeless' needs thereby preventing someone who has been waiting on housing list for a property... if you keep letting millions of people come here - then you need to do away lots of green spaces to provide for millions of new homes... do you really want to be even more over-congested than we already are ? lib-lab-con agree to allow this problem to continue... it doesn't bother me - i saw this coming - and made 'arrangements' a decade ago... i just feel very sorry for your bairns future matey!! :(

A mate of mine lives in a row of 6 privately owned houses, next door to 3 socially rented houses. Half the private houses have been bought by people who are from overseas and work full time. The six houses account for 4 children. The three socially rented houses contain indigenous white people who appear to either work the minimum required hours to qualify for benefits, in clearly low paid jobs, but mainly not work at all. These three houses account for around 15 children! (And let's not go into the Sky TV dishes etc) I know where the population increase REALLY comes from. Sadly, it does not support the agenda of the BNP/UKIP and other groups & posters sharing the same views.

said in the sun today that 247,000 ( population size of newcastle ) people who should not be even in the uk hare still here because the border agency has not even got around to writing to these people to tell them they should have left my country ( as if they would just leave anyway ! ) i wonder where these people along with the other few million who have not left my country either are all living?

the wall wrote:
A mate of mine lives in a row of 6 privately owned houses, next door to 3 socially rented houses. Half the private houses have been bought by people who are from overseas and work full time. The six houses account for 4 children. The three socially rented houses contain indigenous white people who appear to either work the minimum required hours to qualify for benefits, in clearly low paid jobs, but mainly not work at all. These three houses account for around 15 children! (And let's not go into the Sky TV dishes etc) I know where the population increase REALLY comes from. Sadly, it does not support the agenda of the BNP/UKIP and other groups & posters sharing the same views.

Lets get them into power and see how they fair
Cant be any worse than this lot can they???? Lol

We need about 5mill new homes and 5mill polish builders lol

ade12001 wrote:
said in the sun today that 247,000 ( population size of newcastle ) people who should not be even in the uk hare still here because the border agency has not even got around to writing to these people to tell them they should have left my country ( as if they would just leave anyway ! ) i wonder where these people along with the other few million who have not left my country either are all living?

The Sun isn't known for the rigour and objectivity of its journalism but in this case they are correct.

Given your desire to see illegal immigrants deported I guess you'll be supporting the PCS Home Office strike on Thursday, unless it's called off. Given the government's pig headed intransigence that seems unlikely.

This sort of backlog, caused by underfunding and understaffing, is one of the main things they're striking about.