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use our grey power to force real affordable, safe houses to be built whoch won't kill our planet but actually save it!!

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peaches50 Fri 24-Nov-17 18:59:30

www.rtpi.org.uk/media/2262469/debate_30_mar_2017_janice_morphet_article.pdf

There's a quiet revolution going ahead with councils across the country quietly 'taking back control' from developers and finally using their powers to dictate house building in their areas, and who will get them. Instead of lining developers'shareholders' pockets, IF land owned by the church, the government, NHS, 'land bankers' etc is counted and made available, by coercion and COP if not willingly offered we could have a major revolution. Have a look at www.zedfactory.com/ who build green homes - no energy bills and enough energy to run an electric car! It's our children's and grandchildren's future and we are one world. So let's force change with petitions, scouting out abandoned homes and boarded up plots - and report them to our councils to do something about it. Who's with me? a petition?..... No one should be making a choice about 'eating or heating' it's criminal - and btw we'd need 11 nuclear power stations to provide the energy for the electric vehicles by 2040.. that's going to happen isnt it?!

varian Thu 08-Mar-18 17:44:59

How should we remember the victims of Grenfell Tower - by building a memorial on the site or by building better housing?

www.dezeen.com/2018/03/02/grenfell-tower-fire-memorial-architecture-london-news-uk/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dezeen%20Weekly%20560&utm_content=Dezeen%20Weekly%20560+CID_f6697b91f68e8f3ffcfd14ea4e8ff74a&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Read%20more

durhamjen Thu 08-Mar-18 18:54:06

Up to the survivors to decide, by democratic means, but can't they have both?

durhamjen Fri 09-Mar-18 22:33:52

May blamed councils for not enough houses being built.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/report-warns-10-of-councils-close-to-bankruptcy-over-funding-shortfalls/

Difficult if they are close to bankruptcy.

durhamjen Fri 09-Mar-18 23:38:25

www.24housing.co.uk/news/labour-steps-up-against-government-over-grenfell/

durhamjen Fri 09-Mar-18 23:52:19

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/09/grenfell-tower-uk-may-have-breached-human-rights-says-un

The government won't take any notice of this. It never has over any other breach of human rights.

durhamjen Tue 13-Mar-18 23:11:10

This is just wrong. It's not the residents fault that the wrong cladding was used.

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/13/tower-residents-croydon-replace-grenfell-style-cladding-tribunal
The government should pay for it.

It was their chief fire officer who said it was safe to use on the buildings.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/07/labour-says-ministers-made-false-claims-about-cladding-after-grenfell

durhamjen Thu 22-Mar-18 15:38:41

skwawkbox.org/2018/03/22/grenfell-campaigners-to-protest-today-to-stop-councillors-voting-themselves-6m-extra-legal-budget/

This is wrong, too. The figures are shocking. They need six million extra to protect themselves from not having spent five thousand on the cladding.

durhamjen Thu 22-Mar-18 20:32:34

www.24housing.co.uk/news/grenfell-the-most-risk-exposed-project-in-the-world/

durhamjen Sun 25-Mar-18 09:54:12

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/24/london-social-housing-sell-off-protest-luxury-hotel

No wonder there are so many homeless in London, if social housing is being sold off like this.

varian Mon 02-Apr-18 11:53:10

A council has come under fire after it bought two houses for £1.2million two decades after selling them for £190,000. Brighton and Hove City Council described the purchase as ‘good value’ and plans to turn them into 15 flats for temporary accommodation.

David Gibson, councillor for the Green party in the Labour-led administration, said: ‘In Brighton and Hove we are drastically short of providing the amount of truly affordable rents and social housing the city needs.

Instead of keeping existing homes and building more, Labour and Conservative governments sold off homes through the disastrous ‘right to buy’ scheme for years.

The Labour council is now in a position of having to spend £1.2 million buying back a property it originally sold off for £190,000. ‘The loss made on buying back this home shows the flaws in flogging off our housing stock.’

metro.co.uk/2018/04/02/council-sold-houses-190k-buys-back-1200000-7434009/