© 2020 – 2024 AEA3 WEB | AEAƎ United Kingdom News
AEA3 WEB | AEAƎ United Kingdom News
Image default
News

‘Poor floors’: anger over new plans to segregate tower block residents

London mayor to rule on ‘social apartheid’ of separate lifts, floors and blocks for low-income tenants

Developers of mixed housing schemes are increasingly building segregated floors and blocks for low-income families to boost the value of the open market properties.

Modern housing developments are often segregated by tenure, with flats let at affordable rents, shared ownership homes and open market properties given separate, fob-protected floors or separate blocks. Facilities including courtyards, communal lounges and roof gardens are also sometimes divided along the same lines. However developers in the capital will soon face rules requiring schemes to be more integrated.

Continue reading…

Related posts

UK nationals should leave Russia while they can, Foreign Office says

AEA3

Furious Tories pile pressure on Boris Johnson over No 10 parties

AEA3

Legal profession’s most powerful among members of London’s men-only Garrick Club

AEA3