Talk:Council house
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[edit] RTB discount
Can you supply a cite for the 70% discount? I'm not saying you are wrong, but when my mum and dad bought their house in 1991 it was with a full discount (33 years residence) and it was 60% (subject to a max of £50,000) Icundell 22:58, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Here you go: http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_housing/documents/page/odpm_house_024003-02.hcsp#P43_6642 The 70% only applied/applies to flats. Incidentally, I like the way this page is slowly growing, with little bits added here and there. This is how it should be! Redlentil 15:57, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Cheers. I think that should be made clear in the article since it implies that flats (damp, leaky, no green space) are much harder to get rid of than houses (72 foot back garden). Thoughts? Icundell 16:34, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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- I've had a go, but it could no doubt be more elegantly phrased. Please have a look. I've also added some thoughts on the current position but it's a bit wooly. Given your contribution to Geography of the UK on regional disparity, of which this is an example, you may well have something to add. (We seem to frequent the same sites. Are you sure you're not me? Redlentil 21:27, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Have we ever been seen together in public? Icundell
The discount stuff was fine. I rejigged the 'stigma' section a bit, as much to avoid 'asylum seeker' seeming pejorative as anything. Icundell 21:46, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Arms Length Management Organisations and Large Scale Vomuntary Transfer
This is my first time using Wikipedia so I'm surfing around bits to see how it works. It's wrong to end this article with the decline of Council Housing. the use of ALMO's and LSVT has been used to good effect in investing in the stock and introducing some flair, similar to Housing Associations, into the market. How is an extension to the article commissioned?
- It's not commissioned - you just do it! Go right ahead and add to the article. That's what Wikipedia is all about. (Welcome, by the way!) Don't worry about spoiling someone else's article - one of the things people here know is that nothing is private property: anything you write can be edited by anybody else. I'm sure there's useful stuff to be added about ALMOs etc, so anything you can add will be really worth doing. Redlentil 19:12, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Largest council estate in the country?
This article says Becontree, Aylesbury Estate says it is. How do we measure - and do we have sources? Secretlondon 09:38, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- There seem to be a huge number of claimants to this title. Out article on Becontree gives a figure of 27,000 houses, while the Aylesbury Estate has only 2,700. Other claimants include Wythenshawe (population about 80,000) and Bransholme (population about 40,000). One difficulty is counting what exactly is a council estate - many developments had some houses for sale for the start, and in drawing boundaries - for instance, much of northern Sheffield consists of council estates, which if counted together might well be as large as any of these, but they are generally thought of as seperate areas. Warofdreams talk 16:50, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yes - I think I've heard the title given to the Grahame Park estate in Hendon too. What is an estate? It could be argued that 27,000 is a town. Secretlondon 18:03, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- Becontree is seen as just one estate by the Post Office, so that seems enough to justify its position.
[edit] Not Just in Britain
Council houses are found around the world
one of the estates in my town is known as smatieland coz of all the different coloured houses
- Would this be NL? --TGC55 23:25, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Apogee → Heyday
Minor change: Retitled the section discussing the boom years of council housing construction from Apogee to Heyday. The titles of the other sections were fairly straightforward; "Apogee" didn't seem to mesh well with them stylistically. Doonhamer 01:51, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] New Picture
Can a registered user please add the picture at the top of the Seacroft, Leeds page under the current picture. Seacroft is one of the biggest council estates in the country and the picture seems fitting. Thanks. 80.47.210.67 21:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- I've fixed the picture - but 18,000 isn't that big. It seems common for a local estate to be seen as the largest in the country, europe etc - I can think of several claimants in this bit of London alone, and as the article says, Beacontree has 100,000. Secretlondon 22:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- We also need to be careful that we don't imply that all council estates are 1960s tower blocks - they aren't. Secretlondon 22:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- If you read the heyday section this is made quite clear. Icundell 13:48, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yes but pictures of just tower blocks give a strong impression, picture speaking 1,000 words etc. Secretlondon 19:09, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
- If you read the heyday section this is made quite clear. Icundell 13:48, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the picture Secretlondon. 80.47.211.228 19:46, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
