'Ouses, Greenbelt and stuff
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There's some top quality massive slides in Victoria Park. I'm not sure that's the best basis to pick where to buy a £5m house though.
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If I spent £5 million on a house, I would really prefer it to not be in Hackney.
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I *want* to live in a 6 acre plot with river frontage, but I am priced out by people from London.
Young professionals are not priced out of Cambridge as far as I can see, they are just priced out of prime spots 60 seconds walk from the station. C'est la vie.
If I were you I'd be living marginally further away and invest in a fixie. It's exactly what I did in Edinburgh when we got our first place for 5 times salary at 5%.
Well, not a fixe.
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It's very fashionable. Where would you choose?
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FFS, what is wrong with you?
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It's a bit gritty for my tastes (and I am very unfashionable), Surrey Hills please, maybe Coldharbour or somewhere - i need to be able to get the kids to school.
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There's a way you can stop it yourself, you know.
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River frontage not your thing? Flood risk?
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There are about 3 houses in Coldharbour and zero potential for development.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I don't see either of those things as a problem for this fictional multi million pound house that BB is buying me.
Will save me having to become a NIMBY too.
This will do, BB can keep the change
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It's so dull
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You get a lot more for your money than my £11m one! Too big for me - you're going to need staff which is not included in my hypothetical offering. You'll also need a car and I'm not sure about the restaurant situation or the local playgrounds.
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You'd make a terrible estate agent.
I have a car and I've eaten at two very nice restaurants nearby in the last couple of months - I'll be OK.
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Looking at the price of the stuff posted above, I’m beginning to think the house we viewed last week was in my imagination. Stone grade 2 listed cottage 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, utility room, large kitchen with breakfast island, lounge and dining area. Stone out building and large garage with parking for 4 cars. Completely renovated 5 years ago. All for under 400 grand.
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monkimark is getting a swimming pool which can be used at least twice a year, plus enough land to keep some sheep, but on the face of it yours sounds like a better deal.
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Location, location, location.
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Where do you live Webboo2? That sounds remarkably cheap unless it has a werewolf infestation.
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It was in North Yorkshire just outside the North York moors National park. We did look at one which was nearer 500 grand but had so much land we couldn’t have afforded the sheep that would have been required to keep the grass short.😉
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Rent it to a local farmer. You can also get something off the stamp duty for land that can be used in that way.
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I wouldn’t have wanted a farmer on my land🤣🤣🤣🤣
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The werewolves would eat the sheep anyway
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the Trivial Whining millennials that Annoy you Thread? I'm sure there's an acronym in there somewhere.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Anyway, I've done my bit. Sold my old house in the London 'burbs to a nice couple who were under 40 yo and moved out to the wilds of Kent.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Question is, who actually wants to live in those sorts of areas? I assume they're labelled low quality for a reason. I thought that the priced out Millennials mostly wanted to live in the cities close to amenities etc, rather than some former industrial estate near a motorway?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
The example in the article is in tottenham
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That's grey belt?
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I think it's quite a canny way to get people used to an errosion of the green belt. The idea of compelling councils to propose solutions (where houses can be built) rather than wait for people to object to where they are proposed sounds good.
It should be in most local plans. It is here. And it was in Midlothian, inconsiderable detail.
And yet, when houses were proposed near us, planning was refused....
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So, for those in the industry, what's the deal with this?
On the face of it, planning permission sought for development to include affordable houses, but developer only saw profit in the detached houses. They were on Rightmove for £800k, so not "affordable". The "affordable" ones would still have been in the 200-300 range I reckon.
It made a bit of a splash in what seems to pass as news in the south west. Even got into the Beeb.
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Green belt starts just down the road from me, but you can't see the join. It's not really anything to do with it being pretty and is just a planning designation to arrest the suburban sprawl of the 1930s. There are plenty of nice leafy bits outside the GB designation and plenty of non-leafy bits within the designated area. It's not difficult to landscape a former carpark into somewhere people want to live.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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