I listened to a very recently widowed mother to a young daughter on the radio this morning telling how, with the Olympics coming, some landlords in her London Borough (Walthamstow..?) were chucking out people like her (widowed in March, daughter in a school she likes and is settled in, extended family all living within reach) in order to cash in during the Olympics.Her Borough had sent her a letter on a one-deal-only basis offering her a flat in Walsall - yes, Walsall - take it or leave it, and if she left it she would be on the streets. Nice.
Such a sad story this is terrible
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#21, #25 Yes I agree about Stratford station, absolutely awful, what a lovely first impression that's going to be! I though perhaps they might give it a coat of paint or something, but no, that's it.
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I've just been talking to someone who is working on the Olympic site, apparently there are only two escalators out of Stratford station so with the other workers he has to get there at least 45 minutes before they are due to start work because of the queues.
And some of it is only predicted to be finished by the end of August.
Keith Sansum1
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its just like the argument on the royal family
do the dosh the olympics bring in
amount to anyhing like the millions spent out to stage it?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it is up to businesses to make of what they will, opportunities and not just about contracts connected to the games.
companies with overseas clients or even domestic ones could buy up tickets for events that the client or prospective client wants to see.
much the same as wimbledon, lords or even posh barry's henley regatta.
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now rogers out of the frame by his own admittance,
what can/will dover do to make it prosper
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Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Isn't it nice to see so many entering into the Olympic spirit, doesn't it make you proud?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17986383Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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it's terrible chris
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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read about that a short time back, i notice the landlords association's comments in that link.
short term greed could backfire on landlords after the olympics are over.
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many many moons ago when i first joined the council one of my first cases was a 16 year old girl with a baby in a bedsit with no facilities in it
and hardly room to move around the bed
the landlord charged a fortune, put an egg outside her room each day(which classed as a breakfast) which she never ate.
he also was able to enter her room at any time.
the fair rents panel had no teeth and a waste of time, so i had to take the landlord on.
the landlord unusualy lived local, was friendly up to the point when in my friendly way i questioned some of his bedsits.
he then starting threatening me at home and at work.
of course im not one that wavers easily and did tell him i was at home/work but he never came i also promised him(after a lot of advice) that if he continued with the bedsits in the present form i wouldnt stop till i closed him.
it was a long haul of talking to the landlord, talking to the council, lots of letters, lots of notices of improvement notices.
but in the end the council moved in and done the business.
he no longer was part of the set up.
these bedsits no longer exist
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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something for us to look forward to or not.
#48 - I think that was what was happening in the item I referred to in #41. And the LA was colluding.
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There are many tiny bedsits and flats in and around the Folkestone Road and Clarendon areas.
The guidelines for flat-conversions is wrong, in that it allows rooms to be too small and therefore will only attract ne'er-do-wells, homeless people and those on various benefits.
I think the Priory part of the Maxton Elmsvale and Priory Ward deserve better.
Roger
Brian Dixon
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thats a bit harsh roger,its a case of either that or a town full of rough sleepers,in which would give dover a negative outlook.
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ROGER;
I have no problem with your thoughts, of course this has been a problem for some years.
sadly the planning committee continues to look at applications one by one, rather than the affect it has on the community.
unless the planning committee changes it's ways, the problem will get worse.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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so you are another person who wants rough sleepers in shop doorways then kieth.
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Priory area brian has suffered over the years which has been highlighted so many times but just to remind you;
Years ago we had the building of the channel tunnel, whilst it was being built priorey suffered from an influx of people short term from other areas who had no interest in the area, and left the area in a terrible state when they left.
Following this we had the asylum issue where at one point asylum seekers outnumbered the local population causing tensions(which are still around)
and with this we had(have) a lack of agency co ordination.
thus the situation becomes a nightmare for locals. of course we also had a few stabbings as well.
then of course we had the bootlegging where gangs from liverpool, manchester moved in to the ward, where pitch battles at times took place and threats to each other and locals, and of course because it was short term the didnt care in the state they left the houses after they left. and of course we had some shootings thrown in for good measure.
so i think priory has had it;s fair share of the national problems.
I think my view is that whoever lives in and around priory it should be adequate
accomodation and a nice place to work/visit/live
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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fairly well summed up keith, the long term residents deserve better.
Jan Higgins
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Keith has highlighted perfectly the problems that arise when there are too many short term lets and bedsits in one area.
As a generalisation short term tenants do not take care of the place they live unlike the long term tenant and owner occupier.
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