| Subject: "If you can't afford to live in Maidehead - move to Liverpool" |
Author:
Mizzy
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Date Posted: 11:54:01 09/30/03 Tue
In reply to:
Dean
's message, "Because..." on 21:38:50 09/29/03 Mon
Not a joke - one of the suits at Maidenhead Town Council did actually say that a couple of years ago during a debate about afforable housing in the area.
I'm stuck in the South-East housing rut too - I'm not married, no dependants, not well off or work in the public sector. All we hear in the media is "new homes for key workers - nurses, teachers, policemen, social workers".
What about the people who earn LESS than key/non-public sector workers? Shop assistants, bakers, beauticains, gardeners, nannies, mechanics, artists, cooks, skilled people who are good at what they do but don't earn very much etc etc etc etc etc etc? Where are they supposed to live?
And another thing! Is there no legestlation that balances out the types of new properties that are built in the UK? For every Housing Association place or affordable house in Maidenhead - there seems to be twenty flashy new £500,000+ flats or homes. Yet you go through the property pages of the Bucks Free or Advertiser and there is a clutter of half-a-million plus homes on the market, month after month, that aren't selling.
Before Maidenhead becomes "A town that has ridden it's own bloody children for some premium-priced office space" it needs affordable homes and now.
But not at the CRCMH!
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