I support them. This is democratic. I would also support the views of those who want to build the flats – have a debate and lay out the facts.
*”First they came for the Concrete Car Parks,*
*And I did not speak out,*
*Because I was not a Concrete Car Park*”
Thank you, James Acaster and Nish Kumar, for doing *something*. You are on the right side of history.
Next week : fuck the tories for the increasing house prices! It’s too expensive to live in London on a ‘creative’s’ salary
As it stands, there are zero homes, affordable or otherwise on that site. Building more homes will decrease the overall cost of homes, regardless of how they are designated by the council.
Opposing this development in an area as deprived as Peckham is utter madness.
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Yes! We need more dessicated supermarkets and rotting concrete car parks. They’re an endangered species and must be protected.
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What twats.
If it was affordable housing no-one would complain. It’s designed to be unaffordable to local residents to push them out.
Affordable housing is a scam the more you read into it.
“Housing committed to be sold at 20% below the market value” is a crazy idea that does nothing to help anyone except the first buyer.
It’s just a buzzword that some people like. In practise it makes no sense compared to just building large numbers of flats and therefore reducing demand.
I am sorry but peckham is not a very nice place, spent a day and night in the area and it was dirty, people openly drug dealing, rude, busy and pretty depressing, broken windows etc.
It obviously has some pretty interesting areas and buildings which should be preserved but a bit of money and love in the area could really revitalise it.
The library is pretty good though
*’Acaster, co-host of the Off Menu podcast, and* ***Kumar, a TV presenter who also hosts the Pod save the UK politics podcast****’*
Burn!
The worse thing about this headline is they called Nish Kumar a comedian
I’d like to develop Peckham by telling all these NIMBY hipster gentrifiers to leave.
Big, big sigh.
The big reason housing is no longer affordable – the reason why we are in a literal housing CRISIS – is because we haven’t been building anywhere near enough for decades now.
And one of the big reasons why is that it’s not profitable for developers to build if they time they do they get stuck in court for years because of some NIMBY fucks like this.
Ah the “more money than sense boys”
This is why London has a housing crisis.
opposes development but pretending to care for the common people who are asking for more homes is pure hypocrisy
Comedians against fighting the housing crisis.
Literal insanity.
Absolute NIMBY w*nkers
This comment section gives me hope for the future.
Never stop fighting the nimby scum.
Personally, I don’t feel the biggest issue is skirting around the affordable housing promise, but the fact that Berkeley Homes admitted that the flats will mostly be for ‘second-time buyers’ and for rich people abroad. Doesn’t sit right with me.
Just when I thought I couldn’t dislike Nish Kumar any more.
Classic champagne socialists – let’s keep Peckham shit! The vibes you know!
A 1 bed flat (55sq m) on the old site of the Haygate Estate (elephant and castle) today goes for £2500 a month
This will happen in peckham which is already over priced. That’s why people are opposed to it out of principle and experience (there are also so called nimbys involved as always who don’t like tower blocks, fine whatever)
The people who believe building blocks of luxury flats in London decreases the value of housing are wrong, this happens when you build COUNCIL housing eg. controlled rent in massive blocks which are cheap and not for profit. Council housing is not being built on any scale anywhere but they have demolished a load of them. To build luxury flats. See Old Kent Road, Aylesham Estate, etc sold to developers and a big housing association.
Source: followed this since 2010 and watched many campaigns try to expose and fight this process. Lots of luxury blocks built all over and prices have leapt up since then. Lots of working class people pushed out of estates and out of London. Social cleansing
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Can we raise £50,000 to fight Nish Kumar being called a comedian
bow quaint merciful nine society repeat absorbed marble vase hat
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I support them. This is democratic. I would also support the views of those who want to build the flats – have a debate and lay out the facts.
*”First they came for the Concrete Car Parks,*
*And I did not speak out,*
*Because I was not a Concrete Car Park*”
Thank you, James Acaster and Nish Kumar, for doing *something*. You are on the right side of history.
Next week : fuck the tories for the increasing house prices! It’s too expensive to live in London on a ‘creative’s’ salary
As it stands, there are zero homes, affordable or otherwise on that site. Building more homes will decrease the overall cost of homes, regardless of how they are designated by the council.
Opposing this development in an area as deprived as Peckham is utter madness.
[deleted]
Yes! We need more dessicated supermarkets and rotting concrete car parks. They’re an endangered species and must be protected.
[deleted]
What twats.
If it was affordable housing no-one would complain. It’s designed to be unaffordable to local residents to push them out.
Affordable housing is a scam the more you read into it.
“Housing committed to be sold at 20% below the market value” is a crazy idea that does nothing to help anyone except the first buyer.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-homes-fact-sheet-9-what-is-affordable-housing/fact-sheet-9-what-is-affordable-housing
It’s just a buzzword that some people like. In practise it makes no sense compared to just building large numbers of flats and therefore reducing demand.
I am sorry but peckham is not a very nice place, spent a day and night in the area and it was dirty, people openly drug dealing, rude, busy and pretty depressing, broken windows etc.
It obviously has some pretty interesting areas and buildings which should be preserved but a bit of money and love in the area could really revitalise it.
The library is pretty good though
*’Acaster, co-host of the Off Menu podcast, and* ***Kumar, a TV presenter who also hosts the Pod save the UK politics podcast****’*
Burn!
The worse thing about this headline is they called Nish Kumar a comedian
I’d like to develop Peckham by telling all these NIMBY hipster gentrifiers to leave.
Big, big sigh.
The big reason housing is no longer affordable – the reason why we are in a literal housing CRISIS – is because we haven’t been building anywhere near enough for decades now.
And one of the big reasons why is that it’s not profitable for developers to build if they time they do they get stuck in court for years because of some NIMBY fucks like this.
Ah the “more money than sense boys”
This is why London has a housing crisis.
opposes development but pretending to care for the common people who are asking for more homes is pure hypocrisy
Comedians against fighting the housing crisis.
Literal insanity.
Absolute NIMBY w*nkers
This comment section gives me hope for the future.
Never stop fighting the nimby scum.
Personally, I don’t feel the biggest issue is skirting around the affordable housing promise, but the fact that Berkeley Homes admitted that the flats will mostly be for ‘second-time buyers’ and for rich people abroad. Doesn’t sit right with me.
Just when I thought I couldn’t dislike Nish Kumar any more.
Classic champagne socialists – let’s keep Peckham shit! The vibes you know!
A 1 bed flat (55sq m) on the old site of the Haygate Estate (elephant and castle) today goes for £2500 a month
This will happen in peckham which is already over priced. That’s why people are opposed to it out of principle and experience (there are also so called nimbys involved as always who don’t like tower blocks, fine whatever)
The people who believe building blocks of luxury flats in London decreases the value of housing are wrong, this happens when you build COUNCIL housing eg. controlled rent in massive blocks which are cheap and not for profit. Council housing is not being built on any scale anywhere but they have demolished a load of them. To build luxury flats. See Old Kent Road, Aylesham Estate, etc sold to developers and a big housing association.
Source: followed this since 2010 and watched many campaigns try to expose and fight this process. Lots of luxury blocks built all over and prices have leapt up since then. Lots of working class people pushed out of estates and out of London. Social cleansing
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