StraferJack

I suspect that 6 months lets may be advisable buggie - you say alreadt "about" 3 months but judging by anyone I know who has undergone work like this, chances of significant overrun are high if they finish in 4 months and you have 2 months left on contract, you could always askfor flexibility up front, but worse case scenario the extra cost is better than being homeless again, and relatively small in scale of the work?

So wouldn't a combination of less onerous new t&cs, more input from sponsors, reductions in senior salaries and sale of one or two works be a better solution?

Anyone able to put an estimate on how much this will save the gallery per annum?

"Neither impatience nor not wanting to drive so slow are criminal activity, only actually exceeding the limits are. " never said otherwise " Make that 20 and congestion increases" how do you make that out?

Let's assume this whole "simple supply and demand issue" is true and the primary if not only factor - let's go with a clear road ahead with no objections from locals, councils, planners etc Builders have a free run at building houses to meet demand, from tomorrow Now - what price should they go on the market for? Or if it's a new wave of social housing, the likes we haven't seen before - what rate is that set at and what level of earnings are people excluded from qualifying?

DaveR chose his examples carefully ? bread and shoes ? as examples of other ?stuff of life? necessities But it?s trite because he knows consumers demand those prices go down but consumers are divided on house prices. (Many) ?Haves? want them to go up and ?have nots? need them to come down Equally, if someone or a small minority were to locally buy up all the bread and shoes in SE London, somehow stop supplies from elsewhere and start charging them at much higher prices it?s obvious that there would be intervention Other stuff of life examples are energy, water etc- all regulated and not left completely to the free market

"READ this thread once through but can't find the fact that McDonald's have very recently had to admit that there are fifteen (or was it seventeen?) ingredients in their 'fries' " what not even the very first post???

"whoever builds them but the state is bust innit)..." Not like back in the day when the big council house building programme happened?

"but how to do anything about it?" more pointedly - how do to anything about without people screaming "cash cow!!!"

so the rest of us have to decide if we would rather Chelsea or Tottenham to win??? pick the bones out of that one...

stawbs problem the train cos have during disruptive periods is carriages and drivers get stranded as well. There aren't dozens of spare carriages knocking around at every end of line. So those missing carriages on your train are probably up around Luton somewhere until the train gets there and reattaches Again, no use to us passengers affected - but it's logistics innit

"due to the impatience of people not wanting to drive so slow" aka criminal activity

"Am I the only one who loves this Henry guy?" Nope - more like him please

"Rents, at least in ED, aren't rising. They've been pretty stagnant for about three years. The big jump in house sale prices over the last few years have not been followed by a commensurate rental increase." doesn't matter a jot - the investor gets the property at end of mortgage anyway. It's a no lose situation. Or as close as is possible to one. It's why peolpe say "oh if you move out of London don't sell as you won't get back in"

I was just about to correct "my" typo when I realised it was in (s)quids's original post...

"Remeber squarts everywhere? hard to let council flats given to students etc etc? Did these things not happen? " you say this like it's a bad thing??? I jest partially - but the London pop trends is interesting for a number of reasons When squat/student culture was so widespread in 70s/80s were these people all likely to appear on official census figures - ie, maybe the dip in population wasn't an actuality? - prior to that when London was running for decades at population levels not dissimilar to now, how affordable was housing then? If it was affordable then, what are the differences now? And you can argue about shifting demographics, more people living alone etc - but a lot of those people will be living in denser accomodation (flats) than the 4 to a room families of (say) the 30s

"Landlords have no carte blanche to set rents - the market does that. " But that isn't that simple Landlords are buying to let, with expectation of rents rising on the market. That is why they are doing it. Rents MUST rise according to landlords, otherwise they wouldn't be buying. You can argue it's a gamble, but come on... how risky has it been?

Councils are representing their constituents. It's people with property who are the nimbys

Ah so THAT'S why I remember reading so mmany anti-immigration pieces back then as well "coming over here taking the house/jobs that we don't even want" pish remember we aren't complaining about people wanting to live in London in 2015 driving up prices - we are talking about people who don't even live here pushing up prices I remember moving from Swindon to London in 89 and the massive leap in rents - and even still it was affordable. And teh massive leap was because London was even then more attractive to people. This idea that noone wanted to work/live there is just wrong Even through the 90s things remained tolerable - it's only in recent years that investors have creamed the place

The accusation is still out there: 25 years ago there were "no" (will allow limited) property lets available so reform was needed I say: This is bunkum and I never had problem finding a decent property to let on a tiny income (unlike now) Anyone else able to say either way?

I'll rephrase then I never had any problems PRIVATELY renting a house or flat back in the 80s It was much cheaper than now I wasn't reliant on parasite agents charging renewal fees and the like and still not delivering any repairs

You've only just seen the changes today? It's been in beta for months and months (which anyone could switch between) like any redesign people moan but you get used to it and then wouldn't go back

"as there were no rental properties being made available." never had a problem renting decent property in the 80s And I was on subsistence wages back then

"We live in a free market economy so we have to accept things like will happen, as hard as it may be to accept, we have no choice" what do you mean we have no choice PD? Are you saying that there are no regulations in place across a wide spread of trading activities in all kinds of markets? We live in a market economy and long may that continue, but it should never be unregulated and without restraint