lilyd

I noticed yesterday signage that it is occupied by tenants through one of the guardianship schemes, I think the sign was Lowe though I haven?t heard of this one. This suggests that the building is either already sold or the owners are waiting for to sell it. While guardianship schemes can offer ?affordable? housing for those able to be more mobile, the tenants have so few rights (indeed, they know this from the outset), and it is a means through which developers are able to sit on land/projects e.g. wait for the land to appreciate in value while preventing it from being squatted in the traditional sense, or perhaps hold firm over projects that might have been rebutted or rejected by council until the ball is in their court. While I have friends who do or have lived as guardians, I?m sceptical about the good of them as they are a structure which protects/serves developers while boasting an outward appearance of providing a service to renters/tenants.

echoing peckhampam ? i'm surprised you say soundproofing can only be done from their flat? we've just moved into a ground floor conversion where the soundproofing is in our ceiling, rather than their floor. this was put in long before we lived here, so perhaps it did require access to the upstairs flat at the time of installation. i can't speak for that. of course, it does eat into the ceiling height in our flat, but to present the benefits anecdotally: i am currently self-isolating away from home and i can hear the upstairs neighbour where i am doing exercises, including near constantly jumping for up to an hour a few times a week, and it has made me all the more grateful that back at the flat we have soundproofing in the ceiling!

interested to get involved, too!

is it greyish, i'm about to pm you, i'm very close and lost a kitten. please be in touch x