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Rob
Posted Dec 20, 2008 1:12 PM
Thanks for the news .... very interesting. Its great to have played a small part in stopping Wimpey from turning a £10M profit at the expense of our Green Belt - they really are rotten builders.
However The Ombudsman wrote recently and spent two pages saying that NLC was acting within their powers by releasing the site for housing. Well, we can't really challenge that judgement, but whilst NLC have been given the benefit of the doubt they certainly dont come up smelling of roses as a planning authority by forcing this development through against the wishes of the vast majority of local folk.
Barratt will have to come up with the capital and also a new design - which will need planning permission. Plus they will need to build deep foundations in the peat and have a business plan that makes sense given the amount of unsold housing currently on the market... I have a feeling this might take years...
Waterfall Village also seems to have ground to a halt .... I'm glad I don't work in the housebuilding business these days and I feel sorry for the folk who depend on it for a living as well as the young couples desperately trying to get onto the housing ladder and those who are losing their homes through repossession. Boom and bust is no way to provide for decent affordable homes for our people. |
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