Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:43 am
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kanga wrote:Bill McCarthy wrote:Remember those fever hospitals on the outskirts of townships - painted cream with red corrugated roofs. They’ve been around here until recently, some demolished, others converted to youth hostels.
.. some sold off cheaply in the '80s, then turned by developers into posh country clubs with golf courses in their often spacious grounds or posh country hotels. In some cases, as with some airfield sites (see several other threads ), developers managed to persude Councillors (despite central government clarification of the PPG) that the entire curtilage could be regarded as 'formerly developed' and they became housing estates.
Ahem @kanga ... "sold off" at the best market price of the time. I wish I had a pound for everyone who ever told me ten years after the event how I nicked a site.
/pointoforder
On airfields, absolutely correct. Councils all over the land screw up their housing numbers because they dare not make the right decisions to achieve the new builds that their constituents need. Decent developers know how to spin their incompetent wishful thinking agin them. Sadly airfields are often easy meat as it makes other hard issues go away AND they get to blame nasty developers instead of voters blaming the council.
In other on-topic news;
Doctors' workload will be "temporarily suspended" so they can focus on the Covid-19 booster vaccination programme, the Health Secretary has said.
Take care people, don't be ill with anything except a Covid sniffle.
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