Lo sviluppatore afferma che “non può fornire alcuna casa a prezzi accessibili” nel nuovo sistema di alloggi di Peckham
https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/news-plus/developer-says-it-cant-provide-any-affordable-homes-in-new-peckham-housing-scheme/
di cornishpirate32
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>will be providing payments in lieu
We all know that any money they pay will never end up being used for housing it’ll just get chucked in the bottomless pit.
Developer “Peckham has enough affordable homes already and needs gentrifying. To get those house prices up.”
Any chance of at least some snippets of the article? As mildly interested as I am in reading it, I don’t have the appetite to subscribe to Southwark news
Ah, the old pricing the peasants out of the capital method, how predictable
This is why ‘affordable housing’ requirements are dumb
All housing at market rate is affordable to someone
Didn’t Jenrick take a bung from someone for allowing the same when his lot were in but got away with it?
If people will still end up living in the housing (and the statistics show that people will), then it literally is affordable, because people can literally afford to live there.
Affordable housing mandates are stupid, they’re just an extra tax on housebuilding, and taxing housebuilding is the last thing we should be doing when we’re balls deep in a housing crisis.
With profit margins so slim I’m surprised they even bother with the development at all.
These “affordable homes” are stupid, they complicate and delay builds, and fuck with prices. Just build more houses and prices will adjust accordingly.
The whole system is unbelievably broken.
Affordable means 80% of market rent but that helps no one as the market rate is so high.
Just build build build. That’s the only way to make genuinely affordable, “you can spend only 30% of your take home on rent” housing which is what we need.
Good. It should not be the responsibility to house council tenants.
It messes up the value of homes there for people who buy them, create complications on sale.
Councils should build the houses and if they want the houses to be on the same estate, provide assimilation training on how to behave next to regular home buyers so you don’t destroy value.
If you think I’m wrong, go buy a house next to affordable housing or temporary council accommodation and come back to me.
Can we pass a law where if a developer doesn’t go through with the promised affordable house builds then the council gets to confiscate the houses away from the developers and turn it into social housing as a punishment for reneging
> Developer says it ‘won’t provide any affordable homes’ in new Peckham housing scheme
FIFY.
It shouldn’t be the responsibility of developers to make “affordable” homes. Council tenants should not be given taxpayer-subsidised rentals in luxury flats with gyms, pools and saunas that others paid £600k+ for or pay £3k+ pcm to live in
This happens in Newham a lot, thankfully in my complex they weeded out the problematic council tenants and carefully replaced them with well-behaved ones
Isn’t this a commonly repeating pattern? Get approval based on xx% affordable homes. During development, that drops tp x% and by completion its either completely eroded or is a token amount of affordable homes.
Are there any stats on this?
Surely builders are now just very comfortable following this approach?
If they made a business investment, and it isn’t working out, it should mean they are sod out of luck and the project is auctioned off to the highest bidder to buy and complete.
“Developer says it can’t afford to build contractually compliant housing in Peckham” FTFY.
Ok let someone else do it then!
You can’t especially in a high demand area, land building materials and labour costs make it expensive to build affordable homes. You can either force up the prices of non social houses in a development to cover the costs or subsidy on social houses but your making it more expensive for ordinary buyers. Unfortunately previous governments and this one also has made building an expensive undertaking for development and developers
‘Darn, I can no longer provide any planning permission, anything you have built in the meantime has to be demolished’….
The priority should be social housing and small/medium sized private housing. We need a mass of houses quickly so people can live their lives as single families and not in HMO’s