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Originally Posted by folly
i heard there was some houses in darwen, that the council had someone to go check out. he was only stood in the door way of the rooms for a couple of minutes. when the people got the report back from the council all the houses was beond repair and cheaper to knock down than repair. the people not happy about this got there own survey done .the worst house only needed a few thousand spent to get it back to standed this was another plot for the council to build new houses. i saw part of a program where the council was knocking down streets upon streets.all terrace houses. the council said that it will cost £18,000 to knock down each house. the program picked one house that belonged to someone, but know one had lived in it for years as you can imagine it was in a mess. it cost them £25.000 to do it up. so at the end of the day it would only cost £7.000 to do up a house if you deducted the price of knocking it down. how much would it cost to build new?
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This has been challenged as you say. BwD were using Housing Act CPOs - an unfit property - to demolish homes. However a minute assessment was never going to stand up once residents got legal support. Hyndburn is using T&C Planning Act CPOs which are are aquired not because of the house is unfit - but because a major regneration scheme which is deemed beneficial is planned. This of course does involve much public consultation [and a public enquiry] and can take 2 years to go through whereas Housing Act CPOs decalre an individual property unfit and can be seen to be used more quickly and more individually.