Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

No its not because the only political person is a Labour one. I don't do politics.

It wont while I am around

Am I being bad again :rolleyes::D

Thank you for the kind words. Many people both within several sections of the Council and our group have worked very hard. There were some difficult obsticles to overcome with it being our funding and Council land. I believe this project will have paved the way for many other using the same lottery funder.

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

Nothing to do with any councillor? You might want to think that through again.

Might have been better to let someone like yourself have more of a say in the publicity then.

Nothing like a good bit of fishing, is there?

:rolleyes:

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

Well you are such and easy catch and I am in a very strange mood today :p

Not sure if I am comming or going or what the hell I am doing so I thought I would have a laugh and cheer myself up. Thanks for making me smile, karma given :D

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

Careful with that.

You may find the thread disappearing.

:rolleyes::D

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

That could never happen on Accy Web, could it:eek::eek::D

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

Not when I am having fun
Posted via Mobile Device

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

With just seven days to go until the fateful 'emergency' budget, the axe is hovering at HBC and several projects look set to be chopped.

I for one will not be sad to see the back of the Whitebirk Phase II project, a lovely little piece of bureaucratic empire building and totally unnecessary. The job creation estimate kept going up in line with its unpopularity until it was over ten times the original figure.

An unnecessary bus lane on the A666 - ta ta.

The house-building scheme when we have an offical figure of 2,000 empty properties - bye bye baby.

A new car park at the Civic Theatre - erm....

The big question of course is the Area Management calendars - will they or won't they face the axe?

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

Great you'll have to have fun 24/7 then:D

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

Who owns these houses?

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

Primarily out-of-town property developers who couldn't give a toss about Hyndburn and will buy up cheap houses and leave them to rot until the market is right for piling money into them. We need strict regulation on landlords which, unfortunately, is not entirely within HBC's remit and is controlled at national level by the government of the day.

The new government may decide to look at things in a new light but as it stands there is a hefty validation time for regulation schemes before it can be rolled out further and the one in the five Hyndburn wards hasn't even started yet (October, I think).

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

Of course, the other option would be to buy up the delapidated properties and renovate them but for some infathomable reason there is resistance to get back into social housing, the reason stated that it would cost too much and would provide unfair competition for existing landlords.

Several thousand private landlords manage to turn a profit every day but a council can't do this?

A better scheme to whittle out the chaff would be to buy a block of empty terraced properties and do them up using council money. These houses would then be sold to first time buyers from within Hyndburn at cost with the proviso that they were not to be resold as rental properties within ten years. The money from each sale could be used to buy up further empty housing and you end up with a self-perpetuating scheme that slowly regenerates the borough for around half a million quid.

I doubt it will be taken seriously as an idea.

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

I have just removed several posts asking why posts were removed. This should be asked by PM to a mod. Asking in the thread is off topic and against the rules

Several other posts were removed because they were chatting in the thread. Please create new threads or use the PM system to ask off topic questions with another member

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

I apologise. Every other thread I read on Accyweb goes off topic but seeing as I thought we were a friendly bunch I didn't think anyone would mind me asking one small question:dummy2:

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

The thing about budgeting is the need to be consistent.

You shouldn't blow everything one day, and have nothing left for the next.

Educating others about budgeting needs an even hand, otherwise confusion reigns.

Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget
 

Unfair competition for private landlords?.. and so here we go again.
We had the same policy under the Tories in the 80's.. the obsession with regenorating mashed up housing by the private sector simply because of the idealogoly that the private sector can re-develop housing better than councils, the result is high price rents, bad back up on repairs, and at the end insecurity of the tennent.. and after all that the properties get off loaded to some housing association.
It's about time this country started to build houses for people and stop relying on the old stock.