Council housing in London is being exploited on an industrial scale: illegal sublets, Airbnb rackets, bogus applications, Right to Buy abuse, overseas absentee tenants and Council officers acting corruptly.
The First Lady of Sierra Leone reportedly having a free gaff in Southwark is only the start of it. (1/x)
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Looks big and tall, yet I calculated the floor area ratio to be 6.3:1, equivalent to a high lot coverage seven story building (pic 1)
If London wants to compete with NYC /Toronto then it needs to build at higher FARs
@NickCohen4 The Makerfield data must be looking really really bad. For his many faults he has been pretty consistent in sidestepping racialised rhetoric.
When it comes to building stuff, we shouldn't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
This is fine. It won't win an architecture prize, and you wouldn't put it on a postcard, but there's nothing wrong with it. We should build millions more of those.
@The_Clermontian Police have a legal duty to act. They refused to render aid when he was on the floor bleeding out. crying of help. It's gross negligence manslaughter. Put them in jail.
You don't need to read editorialised accounts of what happened to Henry Nowak, at the hands of his killer, his killers cooperative family, and the police.
The sentencing remarks are the closest thing to ground truth, and are not long. Read them.
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