18 January (Part 2) - Not slumming it
Everyone else is at it, the
Evening Standard, the
News Shopper,
the Maggot Sandwich;
ridiculing this advertisement, that is. It featured in the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph too, so why not
B-i-B?
Out of town readers may not know the flats above Sainsbury’s Cross Quarter store next to
the Crossrail station were advertised as including No Social Housing.
Possibly I am alone in thinking, what is wrong with that? Would you expect the
agent for a privately developed,
no Boris subsidy, block to
market it to other than the well heeled? Greenwich’s Labour controlled council granted the planning
permission without any stipulation on affordable or social housing. The result was inevitable.
Mr. Barnbrook
told me only last week of a friend of his friend who lives abroad, buying accommodation near Abbey Wood station purely as an investment.
Sell it when the first Crossrail train runs in four years time.
Probably I shouldn’t but I find it rather amusing that some unsuspecting
foreigner blind buys a flat in Abbey Tower and finds his view dominated by
Coralline Walk the other side of the road. A 150 yard stroll will take him to Wolvercote Road.
Plenty of social housing in both places.
But maybe in four years time
the Safer Neighbourhoods Team will have
worked their magic on both.