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On the housing:
Stratford London wrote:1,439 homes are owned by QDD, a consortium comprised of Qatari Diar and developer Delancey. These homes will be available from April 2013 and will be largely for rent. QDD also own six adjacent future development plots, with the potential to develop a further 2,000 homes.
1,379 homes are owned by Triathlon Homes, an innovative joint venture company which comprises of housing associations - East Thames Group and Southern Housing Group and developer, First Base. Triathlon Homes will manage the affordable homes at Athletes' Village which will include social rent, intermediate rent and part buy, part rent homes.
Stratford London wrote:1,439 homes are owned by QDD, a consortium comprised of Qatari Diar and developer Delancey. These homes will be available from April 2013 and will be largely for rent. QDD also own six adjacent future development plots, with the potential to develop a further 2,000 homes.
1,379 homes are owned by Triathlon Homes, an innovative joint venture company which comprises of housing associations - East Thames Group and Southern Housing Group and developer, First Base. Triathlon Homes will manage the affordable homes at Athletes' Village which will include social rent, intermediate rent and part buy, part rent homes.
It's going to be chaos. I will be avoiding London from about mid June until the whole Olympic circus has left town.
It will probably be several years (if ever) before such a report is published, but I would love to see a cost / benefit analysis of the Olympics. I.e how much money it generated compared to the cost of staging it.
I also note there was an attempt at blatant profiteering by proposing to increase fines for motorists:
It's going to be chaos. I will be avoiding London from about mid June until the whole Olympic circus has left town.
It will probably be several years (if ever) before such a report is published, but I would love to see a cost / benefit analysis of the Olympics. I.e how much money it generated compared to the cost of staging it.
I also note there was an attempt at blatant profiteering by proposing to increase fines for motorists:
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McLaren_Field wrote:Would you like to borrow my bike ?
As someone who lives / spends quite a lot of my working life in Germany, it has occurred to me that I could drive on German plates and basically stick 2 fingers up at UK road traffic law, as and when I pop back to the UK for visits and holidays. The police / councils usually see it as too much trouble to pursue the owners of foreign registered cars.
The problem with German plates is that I would probably get my car trashed, especially visiting places like Hull.
Interestingly, I have never, ever, had any abuse / vandalism issues driving and leaving my British registered car in German towns and cities.
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The Video Ref wrote:As someone who lives / spends quite a lot of my working life in Germany, it has occurred to me that I could drive on German plates and basically stick 2 fingers up at UK road traffic law, as and when I pop back to the UK for visits and holidays. The police / councils usually see it as too much trouble to pursue the owners of foreign registered cars.
The problem with German plates is that I would probably get my car trashed, especially visiting places like Hull.
Interestingly, I have never, ever, had any abuse / vandalism issues driving and leaving my British registered car in German towns and cities.
You may find it's not that simple these days. Index numbers are logged at UK border crossings and any outstanding penalties could easily be flagged. Also, if you're thinking of flouting London parking laws, it's not the ticket that would be a problem, it's the clamp or the tow-away.
An old customer of mine is a Dutchman, working in the UK for a German company. He holds German, Dutch and UK licences and depending where he got pulled, he would produce a licence from one of the other countries but even he has curbed his driving habits of late.
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Mintball wrote:I've never ridden one (not even sat on one) and am not an=bout to start now. Hurrumph.
You'll love it - and all of those new (almost) car-free lanes during the olympics to use and no possibility of any cctv cameras being able to identify you using them - its going to be a cylists paradise in central london in july/august.
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Mintball wrote:I've never ridden one (not even sat on one) and am not an=bout to start now. Hurrumph.
I've never come this way before
The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan
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