Sunday, 30 June 2019

AN UNENVIABLE JOB BUT SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT

K&C
A GLOBAL MAGNET
Running housing in Kensington & Chelsea is a job you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy.
Every year tens of thousands move-or try to move, into one of the world's most popular destinations.
K&C is a small borough with very limited property and land resources. Those that remain are finite

 Housing the world, his wife and his children in one of the most expensive districts is putting a huge financial strain on existing residents-rich and poor.
So should K&C alone have to share the entire burden or should housing this overwhelming influx be shared amongst each and every other London Borough.

 It is sheer madness to think that Kensington & Chelsea can continue to 'magic' property out of the air and the emphasis has to be looking after the needs of key workers.







18 comments:

  1. Anonymous30 June 2019 at 13:39

    WIves...not wife. We are so wracked with post Empire guilt that we are offering refuge to people with no connection here. Time to get tough on those who are not welcome here.

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  2. Tax Free30 June 2019 at 15:50

    ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

    RBKC needs special status for the following reasons:

    Fact: We are one of the smallest boroughs in London

    Fact: We rank in third place for the highest density of people

    Fact: RBKC is 4.68 square miles with a density of 33,000 people to one square mile

    Fact: We have not got the infrastructure to look after all of these people

    Fact: RBKC special needs children are sent out of the borough for schooling or full residential care is paid for by the borough due to no provision

    Fact: Not enough state school capacity

    Fact: GP practices are over subscribed - an appointment can be four weeks away

    Fact: Hospital waiting lists for outpatient services are prohibitively long - totally different from 20 years ago.

    The problems put on local residents are endless and unfair, something must be done to protect the existing residents from this travesty.

    RBKC should be exempt from the Mayors request to build more houses.

    Brent, Croydon, Ealing and Bromley and many other borough could absorb a proportion of the housing list. For instance Bromley has 7,000 people to one square mile.

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    1. Anonymous4 July 2019 at 00:43

      But where will they build these new houses? The question will surely turn into another proposal of 240 level taller than ever tower building? e.g. Gloucester Rd or Notting Hill

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  3. Anonymous1 July 2019 at 07:13

    Taylor-Smith did an excellent job speaking out over Khan't do anything right's decision on the Holiday Inn Forum

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  4. Anonymous1 July 2019 at 08:41

    RBKC are saying their decision to block cycling route was due to "local opposition" but can't say how many of the claimed 1,000 emails received on the subject actually backed the plan, or how they know opponents are local.

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    1. SadBadger1 July 2019 at 11:29

      Oh, such incompleteness of data is nothing NEW. RBKC are of the opinion, or perhaps firm, unfounded belief that the plebs and others are not entitled to have this information, claiming it to be "environment confidential/sensitive".. Load of crap, but that's what they think. Do as they feel fit - whether locals agree or not, is actually IRRELEVANT and ABHORRENT.

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    2. Anonymous4 July 2019 at 00:47

      Data protection and commercial interest are two handy excuses they can use to not dish out vital information.

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  5. SadBadger1 July 2019 at 11:44

    Re: ANON 13:36.. I think that the 1998 Housing Act does NOT compel the Council which has the Housing List, to actually accommodate the people on it. I understand that RBKC have been using this option to push the undesirable elements of the population not only out of RBKC, but as far as possible from London. Some solution, may be?

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    1. Anonymous1 July 2019 at 13:20

      Yes, we can't get basic facilities thanks to peoples from far off lands who have no business in the UK....let alone London and let alone K&C using other resources. No other country would bear it/

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    2. SadBadger1 July 2019 at 14:30

      re anon 13:20 -exactly - that's WHY they are here, because NO OTHER COUNTRY would be so, so accommodating. At the cost to the UK taxpayer...

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    3. Anonymous4 July 2019 at 00:51

      But I think you are missing the point. These people that you are talking about are used as handy pawns to cause animosity amongst the residents. Some people just love to see disharmony. Not in our thinking but they probably feel powerful and enjoy causing such disharmony in our borough. What a perfect job they have.

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  6. Anonymous1 July 2019 at 13:39

    I can't help wondering what the Dame is referring to.

    There have been numerous new luxury developments in the borough during the past 10 years, and more are being built - and most of these cater to overseas investors and the council is really eager to get them built and has never said that there isn't room for such developments.

    The problem seems to be that the council isn't meeting the targets for affordable housing - because when that issue is raised, we're suddenly full and can't accommodate any more - although affordable is only available for existing residents.

    So, is the Dame suddenly the spokeswoman for the group of councillors who are only interested in getting Russian and Chinese billionaires to buy flats for holidays and/or investment here?

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  7. Anonymous1 July 2019 at 16:16

    Russian and Chinese billionaires take nothing out. They don't use schools; they don't use hospitals; they don't use doctors and are rarely here. This Borough is too small to be able to provide housing for those from around the world who descend on K&C because that's where they fancy living rather than Deptford....Got it?
    Nothing wrong with affordable housing for those we need but not for those we don't. Harsh but then so is life

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    1. The Dames Investigator1 July 2019 at 17:08

      The "buy to leave" Brigade are a pox. They do not spend in the Community (shops, restaurants, cleaners, supermarkets, cinemas, petrol stations) all of which have to pay their rates, rents and staff costs. And of course they comprise society as we know it. It is essential to have "living communities" if we are to avoid becoming a Ghost Town

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    2. Anonymous1 July 2019 at 18:50

      The discussion is about whether the Council should be forced to house new arrivals who decide they only want to live in K&C and cause a huge drain on resources so starving residents of facilities: something that the rich newcomers do not do,

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    3. Angry Resident2 July 2019 at 08:23

      Its not only the free loaders who want to come to K&C. Of course they should be spread out to other areas. But the point is that housing policy in the Borough is a MESS. dizzy needs to get it sorted and stop wasting time and posing at her Sloane Square lunch parties

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    4. Anonymous4 July 2019 at 00:57

      Housing policies are being rewritten as we speak but the question is...how are they going to implement them? It may sounds silly but papers are just papers unless it is actively actioned which means people need to be accountable and accountability isn't a strongest point in our borough.

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  8. Anonymous2 July 2019 at 07:29

    There are many facets to this argument and to RBKC - the facts remain - see Tax Free @ 15:50

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