Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

mmmm I think you need more practice, I spend too much time on here fixing your messed up quotes already, I suspect it is about to get worse :p

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

Don't you be cheeky, twas uncle Less who showed me the way:D

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

I may have shown you, that doesn't mean you took any notice.
:)

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

I don't know whether this would have any bearing on buildings insurance , but at the meeting the residents were told that the terrace was being assessed as one entity . If half of the terrace was deemed as sound and half as in need of demolition , the whole terrace would have to be demolished .

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

What a coincidence! The council also bought and did up some houses on South Shore Street and Blackpool Street in Church...

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

I always take notice of you Less:rolleyes:

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

I am not confused regarding the fact that you said that I was coming across as a Tory sympathiser .

I am confused that you needed to make such a remark . What bearing did it have on what I was saying ?

I am even more confused now by the whole Pendle Street business now that the insurance issue has been brought up .
Insurance was never mentioned by the Council officials at the meeting .
If it was pertinent I am wondering why it wasn't brought up .

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

I doubt whether many of the residents of Pendle St actually had buildings insurance.
The population there is mainly of asian origin and they don't buy using conventional mortgages which would require such insurance.

Asian property purchases are made from their own equivalent of a person/persons who provide finance, similar to the Italian 'godfather' system.

PS - that is why an asian prospective buyer can offer you a 'cash sale'

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

So its there own fault if they fall down not Hyndburn's Council tax payer

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

The houses in Pendle Street didn't fall into disrepair overnight. It was a process that took several years, so buildings insurance (renewable annually) would have long since ceased to be available.

The Council always used to deal with with such problems through its Slum Clearance programme, and got the money back from central government. Nowadays it has to meet the costs itself. It doesn't have a choice if the houses are in a bad enough state (as the surveys apparently show).It is a statutory duty.

Don't blame the ruling group. Blame the system.

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

So that makes it ok to neglect your house for years then get the Council to fix it.
How do I get HBC to come and re plaster my dining room? When I took the paper off all the plaster came with it. Its ok I have neglected to decorate this room for years :rolleyes:

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

It doesn't make it ok, but it DOES put the responsibility on the Council, and they don't have any choice about dealing with the problem. :(

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

I best go and spank myself for taking us off thread

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!
 

Not necessarily. Buttresses have been quite successfully used to shore up partial terraces in the past and the houses in question were added onto the original block in the first place against advice.

S215 notices are there to make owners sit up and make sure their houses are in good repair. If we go down the route of buying up everything shoddy we'd be broke within three weeks.

Bad landlords/owners are a perennial bugbear across the borough and we need blanket legislation against this. It came into force in five areas on 1st October for a five year period, why not Hyndburn-wide I don't know because we've been screaming for it in Rishton for years.

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There is "shoddy" and there is "no option to demolish". The Council has discretion over the former, but has a statutory responsibility over the latter.