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Old 10-11-2019, 11:26   #440
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Where are all the starter homes that were promised?
Lots of new 'starter homes'* being built around here by companies hand in hand with the local housing mob, (which used to be the council and now has another name, so costs, responsibility and accountability are lost somewhere in the usual goalpost moving thing), and any small plot of unused land is fair game.

Actually there are a great number of pubs and social clubs that have closed due to - well that's another argument - and have been demolished to enable 'affordable'* housing to be built in their place.

* small boxy type things equivalent to 2 storey rabbit hutches, complete with parking space for a fiat 500 and 1.5m square garden
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