On 2016-01-23, e27002 aurora wrote:
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Government should set the rules and regulate. Private industry can
always do a better job. And, tenants tend to respect another person
property, more so than public property.

Talk to some of the people who do end-of-tenancy inventories for
private landlords (or agents), lack of respect is very common (though
not universal). Talk to some tenants who, no matter how well paid, well
dressed, and looking like a prospective buyer they are, are suddenly
treated like scum by estate agents when they say they want to rent. Talk
to some landlords who have given up trying to do the right thing because
many of their tenants have no respect at all for the property, or those
who have switched to commercial property rental because it is so much
less hassle.

We should be looking at a new crop of new towns. These could be at
key nodes on the East-West Rail link, extending down to Didcot at one
end and towards Felixstowe at the other.

How do we get the infrastructure built and who pays for it and makes
sure it is there before it is needed? In particular, how do we finance
the extra capacity for the railways?

The London Boroughs should be looking at densification around key
transit nodes with high rise developments for singles and empty
nesters.

When a developer wants to build a new retail development, the
authority should ask "and how much commercial, and residential, space
to you plan to put above it.

Well yes, but any attempts in that direction so far have not really
worked. Private enterprise developers offer as little as possible to
get approval, and then due to "circumstances" do even less. And then
we get the high-rise with two front doors so that the high-value buyers
(who are the ones the developers want) never have to see the occupants
of the affordable housing.

Government's job is to Govern.

Define "govern".

Eric
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