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Originally Posted by JCB
And what were the residents of Pendle St expected to do when their houses were condemned ?
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As Neil has posted, the magic wand called 'buildings insurance' which would have sorted the whole problem out.
For some reason the council promised to take it on during an election campaign and all of a sudden we're left with a collossal liability that we can't do a thing with.
You're coming across well as a Tory sympathiser but if Labour had done the same thing I don't think we'd be having this discussion. I wouldn't be happy if our lot had been responsible either.
A good example of council acquisitions is South Shore/Blackpool Street in Oswaldtwistle which I have seen recently and am very impressed with. Again, the management could have been better but buying up empty houses and trying to bring them back into use for first-time buyers is a good idea and one that I'm pursuing. The timing just happened to be lousy in this instance but it wasn't really anyone's fault that the housing market chose that particular moment to collapse.