Grenfell Tower Families To Get Luxury Flats..

[trt]

I wonder if they will get free rent, or given a year or two to get their lives back together?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

[scooping]

No disrespect to them but many, most perhaps, would have been on housing benefit. A rent-free period wouldn't really help them. The funds already pledged are sustantial and there will be more. It's really a matter of organisation and there's absolutely no need for anyone to sleep in the park.

[Quangoid]

Hopefully free rent for life as compensation from the contractors who decided to put up the cladding which turned a warm friendly community into a towering inferno.

[Quangoid]

Or right to buy at a 3rd off the price or something equally tempting.

[scooping]

Not seen if Tesco or the like have given everyone concerned a moblile phone. The basic model costs £10 plus a £10 credit and the cost to the store would be a lot smaller. They might even benefit, not just from the publicity but from repeat top-ups. If this has not happened perhaps someone involved could make the calls. It's a win-win.

[Baldric]

//Apartments in the development are currently for sale for between £1.5million and £8.5million //

I can't help but wonder what that will do to the Market Value of privately owned homes in the Development, purchased for upwards of £1.5 Million.
I have no problem with Tenants being helped, they deserve it, but is this the right mix?

[Quangoid]

Are these facts right this time? Do you have a link/source?

[scooping]

The contractors being made to pay is all very well but have they got the money? Could the directors be made to pay? Have they got the money? And are they to blame if what they did was legal? Could take years when the help is required now.

[Baldric]

Read the OPers Link it's in there,

[hc4361]

Baldric, seems to me you favour ghettoes.

[scooping]

Take it we mean flats NOT in the tower block?

[Baldric]

What makes you think that hc?

[EDDIE51]

The tenants will deservedly get a lot more in compensation once this case goes to court. As I have said previously, once a coroner's jury hear the evidence I think an 'unlawfully killed' verdict is a forgone conclusion!
That was the verdict once the Hillsborough enquiry was finally allowed to go on to a full inquest! and the evidence here is MUCH stronger!
Mrs May must be very happy she and the Tory party will no longer be in power once this gets to an inquest!

[jno]

the authorities have a responsibility to house the victims. They don't have any responsibility to protect the market values of other people's properties.

[EDDIE51]

scooping, Unfortunately the builders who opted for the inflammable cladding will almost certainly go bankrupt before they have to pay out!

[scooping]

Tiresome that people are still playing party politics with this tragedy. It wasn't the fault of one Party.

[EDDIE51]

Baldrick it is a NEW unoccupied development of 'social housing' no purchasers ! Those prices are normal for any type of housing in Kensington , one of London's most expensive areas! The price of a parking space in Kensington would buy a luxury home in much of the UK !

[slaney]

"The private flats in the block start at £1.5m, however the apartments that will rehouse the families are part of the 120 affordable homes being built alongside them."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/21/sixty-eight-flats-2bn-luxury-kensington-block-given-grenfell/

[Quangoid]

Questions we need to ask ourselves here are...

1-Who exactly are the potentially shady "City of London Corporation" and why have they bought £10 mil of apt's and how have they swayed The Developer St Edward to overlook £150 mil profit by selling at "cost" price?

2-Are the current and future neighbors of the Grenfell disaster going to be happy that many working class and unemployed people have taken residency for peanuts or for free?

3-If then apt's have been bought for them, is it possible in the paperwork they will be told to waiver any compensation claims or threatened that they could lose their homes?

4-Will they also be able to claim financial compensation?

5- If they can't claim financial compensation then how will they pay the service charge which i'll guess is 10's of thousands if not more.

6-With all of these "benefits" are you a little concerned that "Joe shmoe" living in a horrible old block might decide to torch his block so he can move out of his dump?

[Baldric]

Why do some find it so difficult to read links

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4625368/Grenfell-Tower-survivors-homes-2billion-block.html

///Around 250 homeless and beleaguered survivors of the devastating Grenfell Tower fire will be rehoused permanently inside a £2billion luxury Kensington development, it was revealed today.
The 68 one, two and three bedroom properties have been bought for just £10million and will provide refuge for families who lost everything in the blaze that killed 79 people a week ago.
Apartments in the Kensington Row development are currently on the market for between £1.5million and £8.5 million.
But developer St Edward has sold the 68 flats at 'cost' price even though they have a market value of around £160million.///

[Quangoid]

" 68 flats for around £10m" now makes sense if they're affordable housing as the new builds i've seen are usually put up quickly with shoddy workmanship and cheap materials and are usually plagued with problems for the first 3 years or so