Please take the time to check out the agenda for the Housing Meeting to be held at The Red Lion tomorrow (Weds 18th) at 7pm. Please make the effort to come - it is people like YOU that we need. Follow this link to the agenda.
http://www.purbeckhousingaction.co.uk/default.aspx?p=Agend
Posted by Anonymous to swanage view at 10:26 AM
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So according the agenda this just looks anti-establishmentarianism. All about this Welsh lot that want:
1)new housing developments ONLY for local need.
2)county councils to refuse planning permission for superstores.
3)councils to increase council tax on second homes to 200%.
Where is:
"Should Swanage Seafront be pedestrianised?
What will happen to the Pier Head?
Should supermarkets provide bins for us to dispose of the additional food packaging before we take it home to fill our bins?
Do you trust the local council to represent your wishes?
Do you expect Sandpit field to be covered in flats in 10 years?"
Why don’t you go along to the meeting and then you can raise these points instead of whining on a blog?
Cus this blog misled me as to the nature of the meeting.
How'd it do that?
All points here are valid and worthy of discussion.
i think the Welsh group Cymuned? has similar aims ie supporting and helping local people including housing, protecting their enviroment from overdevelopment, helping local businesses etc. I believe they are offering advice and support to pha as they have much more experience as a pressure group.
I don't think we want to be a pressure group.
How would you suggest achieving anything without applying pressure?
Maybe you would prefer a debating society or a knitting group. The name is purbeck housing ACTION in case you missed it.
Sounds like:
-Support local business by opposing Tesco, one of our larger and most successful businesses, which earns the country millions abroad and creates wealth and employment nationally.
-Build only housing for locals and so put many builders, architects, suppliers etc out of business.
-Make second home owners feel unwelcome therefore discouraging their economic contribution. Do people seriously think that if all the second home owners left then the value of all our homes would fall so far that a school leaver just starting work will be able to buy a flat with a mortgage?
This thread is bedevilled with Purbeck Particlarism. The failure to control house price inflation is a national not a local problem. Housing in attractive places will always be dearer than unattractive places but still has to compete in national and regional markets. This means that a plentiful supply not too far away will help to some degree. You should be campaigning for more land to be made available for house building around the Poole/Bournemouth conurbation as this would help take the pressure off Purbeck.
A campaign to get housing associations the power to borrow to buy houses back into the public sector would also help.
Can’t attend this evening but I would suggest a five point plan to assist the housing problem:
Firstly, encourage business of all sizes, thus creating employment so people can better afford somewhere to live. Build industrial estates not housing estates as a priority. The market will sort itself out despite this current blip.
Second, promote private landlords, renting is the norm on the continent, it should be far more advantageous to “second home owners” or people in large houses to let all or part of their properties. Similarly people could be encouraged to “build to let”. This should not be the prerogative of housing associations.
Thirdly, get people out of social housing who don’t need it anymore. In most cases the community can’t be expected to subsidise a persons housing needs for life, but often do.
Fourthly, abolish inheritance tax and the like so that homes can pass between generations more easily.
Fifthly, make it unlawful to prevent the subletting of a flat. Many people with long leases are prevented from using their property as holiday or long term let by the terms of the lease.
Tescos are killing local shops nationally, do you want to lose our high streets?
So you dont think residents would use builders and architects?
Second homes are part of the reason for increased house prices in this area, one of many but nonetheless contributory.
Housing in Poole is all very well and good if you work in Poole. Maybe we could have out of town housing for workers and bus them in every day to serve second home owners, the retired and the wealthy.
Having read all the above, I've gone back and re-read the Housing website.
As far as packaging and the seafront go - the meeting was advertised locally BEFORE the website even existed. It was advertised as a HOUSING CRISIS meeting - pretty self explanitory I think!
It is useful to use focus groups and advice from other people who have gone through the process of starting a community action group already and who know the pitfalls. Sounds sensible to me to include a bit of advice from other - the whole UK is facing similar housing problems, it's not an 'our area only' problem.
I shall be going, and the agenda seems to clearly state that we will have a chance to raise points ourselves, so we all get to have a say.
And to all those who are moaning about the 'content of the agenda' and so on, this is the first time in the 6 years I've been here that I've seen ANYONE actively try and do something to HELP the community, so don't knock them - you obviously haven't done anything yourself, or we wouldn't be in this situation in Swanage now!!
anon of 1.30pm said "this is the first time in the 6 years I've been here that I've seen ANYONE actively try and do something to HELP the community" ... that's the reason I set up swanageview, to try to provide a place for people to say things that might help the community
so what happened?
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