@contradevian Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) Just coming up now on BBC1 Saw it earlier. People paying £350 a month for a loft space, with a loft hatch for a front door! Still its always good to see the free market in action. They find the home of one Asian landlord, who is not at home but there are a pile of breeze blocks in the garden which suggest another shed house in the making! Edited July 25, 2012 by Socially Housed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 The live-in shed has been a phenomenon for a while (see Slough). Import 3m immigrants, without the resource and capacity justify/accommodate it, and an exploitative culture and and this sort of thing is bound to happen. The sooner the edifice collapses the better and a reset can begin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knimbies who say No Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Just coming up now on BBC1 Saw it earlier. People paying £350 a month for a loft space, with a loft hatch for a front door! Still its always good to see the free market in action. They find the home of one Asian landlord, who is not at home but there are a pile of breeze blocks in the garden which suggest another shed house in the making! My bro's neighbour is/was a London slumlord- people were living in a gazebo in the garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammo Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) This thread is just asking to be "4 yorkshiremen"-ed Edited July 25, 2012 by jammo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 This thread is just asking to be "4 yorkshiremen"-ed LUXURY! We dreamed of living in gazebo! There ya go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer466 Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Time to fecth this image out again..... http://www.dailymail...ai--London.html This problem is all over London not just the bits referred to in the news report.... The Government have known all about it for years but does nothing.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie The Tramp Returns Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 The Government have known all about it for years but does nothing.... Rubbish, LAs always take action against the indigenous slum landlords. Especially the LB of Newham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) some of the sheds in that picture look luxurious compared with the hellholes visited by the reporters. Didn't say what happened when they find these slums with occupants.. LB Newham: "Mr Slumlord you are running a slum" Slumlord: "Fair cop guv, I'll kick everyone out onto the streets." LB Newham: "Um errr, lets not be too hasty now!" Amazed at the guy paying £650 for slum and sounded and looked indigenous to the City. Sure you could get a fairly decent flat/house share in East London for that. Makes you wonder what he does for living, because that would pay a decent mortgage, just not his of course. Edited July 25, 2012 by Socially Housed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Not all of them have windows - the top two in the left hand are just garages/sheds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Not all of them have windows - the top two in the left hand are just garages/sheds? Who needs windows when you have a large, metal flip-up front door? Like Velux, only metal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garf Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 People paying £350 a month for a loft space, with a loft hatch for a front door! Ha. That brought back memories of when I was looking for my first job. Bunked on a friends' floor - His "flat" was an attic space with a hatch that his landlord burst through on Saturday morning with a demand for rent. Delightful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Ha. That brought back memories of when I was looking for my first job. Bunked on a friends' floor - His "flat" was an attic space with a hatch that his landlord burst through on Saturday morning with a demand for rent. Delightful. That's proper renting, that is. None of this laa-di-daa tenants rights. Hope that landlord got something similar to this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm2r5gTJGDA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 (edited) They can't keep hiding more and more townships with populations times the size of Milton Keynes in lofts and back gardens. With the huge projected increases in UK population over the next few years plus the existing substandard hidden township accommodation throughout London and the south east it's just inevitable that eventually they're just going to have to do what they term as concreting it over. Building on the experience of influxes such as the Huguenots who mainly settled and built lives in and around London early London planners had great wisdom and foresight and forsaw that future mass population increases were likely to want to settle in London and the south east and anticipating this designed London with plenty of spare space with all the London forests, parks, commons and greens etc available to help accommodate the population explosion. Edited July 26, 2012 by billybong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveky Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Didn't say what happened when they find these slums with occupants.. LB Newham: "Mr Slumlord you are running a slum" Slumlord: "Fair cop guv, I'll kick everyone out onto the streets." LB Newham: "Um errr, lets not be too hasty now!" Amazed at the guy paying £650 for slum and sounded and looked indigenous to the City. Sure you could get a fairly decent flat/house share in East London for that. Makes you wonder what he does for living, because that would pay a decent mortgage, just not his of course. I thought it had benefits written all over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Ha. That brought back memories of when I was looking for my first job. Bunked on a friends' floor - His "flat" was an attic space with a hatch that his landlord burst through on Saturday morning with a demand for rent. Delightful. You just can't beat the private sector for letting innovation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Loo Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Rubbish, LAs always take action against the indigenous slum landlords. Especially the LB of Newham. they do...they take them to court time after time...the £200 fine is just the cost of doing business. treating people like dogs is fineable. steal a mars bar and its jail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 they do...they take them to court time after time...the £200 fine is just the cost of doing business. treating people like dogs is fineable. steal a mars bar and its jail. Be interesting to compare the fines for human ill treatment and animal ill treatment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyMe Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Be interesting to compare the fines for human ill treatment and animal ill treatment! I'm waiting for the first pair to don a pantomime horse outfit and build themselves some stables to live out of in the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 (edited) I'm waiting for the first pair to don a pantomime horse outfit and build themselves some stables to live out of in the country. Unauthorized structures in the country would be bulldozed immediately. Bailiffs, mass police presence. High Court warrants. 100% guaranteed! What was funny about last nights news item was that one landlord was completely open about it, even have a small office. "Can I rent a shed please?" "Yes here are the keys!" I bet Newham BC are hiring helicopters, and heat seaking detectors, to find the sheds! Edited July 26, 2012 by Socially Housed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Loo Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Unauthorized structures in the country would be bulldozed immediately. Bailiffs, mass police presence. High Court warrants. 100% guaranteed! What was funny about last nights news item was that one landlord was completely open about it, even have a small office. "Can I rent a shed please?" "Yes here are the keys!" I bet Newham BC are hiring helicopters, and heat seaking detectors, to find the sheds! well, they should be, there is serious council tax evasion going on. maybe google earth could help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Miyagi Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 (edited) Plenty of offences that the LA can prosecute for including housing and planning, then appropriate use of POCA on these scumlords will soon have them quaking. The problem is principally one of poor enforcement, obviously discounting the failure of immigration policy and the political implications of the huge homelessness increase proper enforcement would no doubt trigger. Edit to add A large proportion of my duties now include confiscation under POCA against these type of landlords, but there has to be the political want to tackle it. Edited July 26, 2012 by Mr. Miyagi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamnumerate Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 The live-in shed has been a phenomenon for a while (see Slough). Import 3m immigrants, without the resource and capacity justify/accommodate it, and an exploitative culture and and this sort of thing is bound to happen. The sooner the edifice collapses the better and a reset can begin. It is not just immigration. Giving houses in the South East to people who don't work whilst there are plenty of empty houses for them in other parts of the UK hasn't helped. There are people I know off in their 50's who live in London and have never worked - give them a flat in Gorbal and give the parasite's flat to a worker would help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 (edited) It is not just immigration. Giving houses in the South East to people who don't work whilst there are plenty of empty houses for them in other parts of the UK hasn't helped. There are people I know off in their 50's who live in London and have never worked - give them a flat in Gorbal and give the parasite's flat to a worker would help. Interestingly this from someone who posted on now a ruined thread: http://www.rightmove...y-34934740.html OK ex Council on the huge Becontree Council Estate near the quaint village of Dagenham. Private rent ain't that much higher than if it was still carncil. Edited July 26, 2012 by Socially Housed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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