Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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#1
Those of you still reeling from DDC's plan to concrete over the area with 'much needed. housing will have noticed the plan to build 640 homes to the south of Aylesham.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/plans-for-districts-future-reveal-significant-regeneration-277206/
The land immediately to the North West of Aylesham comes under Canterbury City Council who are planning THREE THOUSAND AND TWO HUNDRED houses there on excellent agricultural land.!
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/3-200-home-super-estate-to-merge-two-kent-villages-275108/
As ever, one wonders who these houses could possibly be for?
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alexiatrade- Registered: 10 Oct 2018
- Posts: 89
#2
As ever, one wonders who these houses could possibly be for?
#1........................Human Beings?
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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#3
Well, I hope the good people of Adisham can put a spoke in their wheel!
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
#4
Sorry to p*ss on your parade Cap'n but the vast majority of these houses will be for sale at prevailing market rates.
Given how developers manipulate their residual land value calculations to avoid obligations for both s106 & affordable housing I suspect the beneficiaries will not be hordes of Albanians but absentee landlords & pension funds.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#5
Ross Miller wrote:Sorry to p*ss on your parade Cap'n but the vast majority of these houses will be for sale at prevailing market rates.
Given how developers manipulate their residual land value calculations to avoid obligations for both s106 & affordable housing I suspect the beneficiaries will not be hordes of Albanians but absentee landlords & pension funds.
Absolutely Ross.
Never thought otherwise.
Or, like in Deal, people 'a bit like me' fleeing London.
Prices down here are still laughably cheap.
Here's what you can sell for a million in London
https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/luxury/1-million-pounds-property-in-every-london-borough-b1016259.html"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#6
Yet more housing plans, needed or not how will our already stretched doctors, dentists, schools ever cope?
Planning – Application Summary
22/01305 | Erection of 73no. terraced dwellings and 5no. three/four storey buildings containing 64no. self-contained flats, relocation of existing vehicle access, creation of new vehicle access, parking, landscaping and infrastructure (existing buildings to be demolished) | Land At Barwick Road Dover CT17 0LH
Reference 22/01305
Application Received Wed 05 Oct 2022
Application Validated Wed 23 Nov 2022
Address Land At Barwick Road Dover CT17 0LH
Proposal Erection of 73no. terraced dwellings and 5no. three/four storey buildings containing 64no. self-contained flats, relocation of existing vehicle access, creation of new vehicle access, parking, landscaping and infrastructure (existing buildings to be demolished)
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#7
I look at the new McCarthy stone flats near bridge street and still only 18 occupied
So we need more
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#8
not at 2000 pound a month kieth.
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#9
On this Brian we probably agree!!!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#10
And here in Deal (UK's shop vacancy rate was 13.9% in the third quarter of 2022) we are also possibly getting an extra three shops!
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/former-town-centre-amusements-could-be-demolished-for-flats-277617/"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#11
And 4,000 'homes' expansion in Canterbury!
2020 Canterbury
Births1,171
Deaths1,781
Population change MINUS 610
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/huge-housing-estate-will-make-area-no-go-zone-277885/
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#12
Captain Haddock wrote:And 4,000 'homes' expansion in Canterbury!
2020 Canterbury
Births1,171
Deaths1,781
Population change MINUS 610
University of Canterbury enrolments hit record high last
yearhttps://www.canterbury.ac.nz › news › university-of-ca...
9 May 2022 — The University achieved record student enrolments last year of 20,919 (or 16,237 equivalent full-time students).
Homes needed for students? whether they can afford them anywhere in the Canterbury area is probably a totally different argument.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#13
A lovely ex Dovorian has pointed out that my link was about Canterbury New Zealand
silly me
but our students also need affordable decent accommodation.
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Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
#14
Just watching the news at six, the number of people being served evictions. Gosh it’s so sad. And yesterday, nearly 900 people came up our beaches, all probably destined for hotels. Crazy!!
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#15
Probably Jan the word, affordable gets missed
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#16
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#17
McCarthy stone still struggling to sell its property in dover
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#18
Captain Haddock wrote:And 4,000 'homes' expansion in Canterbury!
2020 Canterbury
Births1,171
Deaths1,781
Population change MINUS 610
I don't doubt it
but today's Guardian frontpage quotes that nice Mr Gove as writing that he recognises "there is no truly objective way of calculating how many new homes are needed in an area".
The background to the article is that HMG is to drop compulsory homebuilding targets - a move which, for reasons that largely escape me, is described as "extremely worrying" by campaigners and as "putting party before country" by Labour.
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