What is that "mate" of mine Sadiq Khan trying to achieve ?

 

You lost you demented little cretin, get over it and concentrate on your job you terrorist sympathiser.

3 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

Off to the cricket. See you all in 5 days 😉

 

Someone's pension must be doing very well.

On 19/07/2025 at 21:12, Spider said:

Not from where I see it, loads of projects on the go and Manchester/Birmingham/Liverpool absolutely flying.

We tend to carry out a lot of bread and butter work, Manchester appears to be a developer hot spot which would be too risky for us as payment and solvency is always a nightmare. Could be a lot of work there in five years time as building defects are uncovered when loans are re-financed... We have teams out repairing cladding all the time.

Just been looking at things, I'm at least 25% down... I'm in for a quiet summer as none of the school jobs I have quoted have got central funding, I have had at least three on the go June to September for the last ten years or so, this is the first year nothing has been awarded although we've put in the usual bids.... one I was told was a "dead cert"... critical fire protection upgrades (doors, ceilings & alarms etc.) in a three storey Special Needs School... DoE funding not awarded, they're looking at other finance streams now but that's a lot of galas and car boots.

Only 650 "Improvement" contracts being funded nationally on the schools this year, the DoE "CIF" funding peaked at over 2,000 contracts in 2020/21 and has been declining ever since, don't think its been this low since austerity.

I thought Labour were going to invest more in our crumbling schools?

43 minutes ago, Dimron said:

Around here the mass housing developers are taking advantage of the relaxations in planning and turning their land-banks into new housing, a lot of which doesn't appear to be selling. Won't help the homeless unless they can afford repayments on a £250k semi.

There's the issue.

New houses being built near me, are starting at £400K for a 3-bed semi, but they seem to be selling well, most of them have gone "off plan" - fuck knows how folk afford them. Actually I do know, Mrs Sweeps friend has bought a house recently with a 35 year mortgage 😬

37 minutes ago, frank_spencer said:

Plenty of empty houses just owned by people trying to flog them rather than available social housing for folk to move into.

It's not that difficult to understand unless you're being deliberately obtuse.

I know it's not difficult to understand, the point is that there is enough "stock" of houses......it's just in private hands.

More social/affordable housing does need to be built, but it never will be.

42 minutes ago, Sweep said:

There's the issue.

New houses being built near me, are starting at £400K for a 3-bed semi, but they seem to be selling well, most of them have gone "off plan" - fuck knows how folk afford them. Actually I do know, Mrs Sweeps friend has bought a house recently with a 35 year mortgage 😬

There’s new housing going up all near where I live. A new estate that borders little Hulton and New Bury (with the added bonus of 2 landfills nearby producing a horrendous smell daily) have homes staring at 225k for a 2 bed semi. Estates agents are now advertising houses at 280k as “ideal first time buyers” 

59 minutes ago, royal white said:

There’s new housing going up all near where I live. A new estate that borders little Hulton and New Bury (with the added bonus of 2 landfills nearby producing a horrendous smell daily) have homes staring at 225k for a 2 bed semi. Estates agents are now advertising houses at 280k as “ideal first time buyers” 

Aye, I see them everytime I visit family. 

Making them out of the shittest materials too.

2 hours ago, Sweep said:

I know it's not difficult to understand, the point is that there is enough "stock" of houses......it's just in private hands.

More social/affordable housing does need to be built, but it never will be.

Problem is everyone knows we need to build more but no one wants scrotes living near them 

Similar people want more folk locked up but would object to a new prison being built near them 

6 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

It isn’t.

Off to the cricket. See you all in 5 days 😉

to be fair, you do seem to object to IHT rises and owd fucks  heating allowance  cuts

23 minutes ago, DirtySanchez said:

Problem is everyone knows we need to build more but no one wants scrotes living near them 

Similar people want more folk locked up but would object to a new prison being built near them 

where i live is pretty nice

but its changed massively over the last 60 or so years

we now have all the residents in their relatively modern houses objecting like fuck to new builds

hypocrites

25 minutes ago, DirtySanchez said:

Problem is everyone knows we need to build more but no one wants scrotes living near them 

Similar people want more folk locked up but would object to a new prison being built near them 

I know developers who stay under 10 houses per site or they have to include for 10-50% scronker housing and playgrounds

39 minutes ago, DirtySanchez said:

Problem is everyone knows we need to build more but no one wants scrotes living near them 

Similar people want more folk locked up but would object to a new prison being built near them 

Probably won't happen for a while yet despite the political hot air... just like schools we have a pile of prison bids awaiting central funding... there appears to be an eerie silence with regard to the promises since the welfare U-turns.

14 minutes ago, Dimron said:

I know developers who stay under 10 houses per site or they have to include for 10-50% scronker housing and playgrounds

A decent LPA would see right through that old trick 

Problem is developers can claim it's not financially viable to provide affordable/social housing and so give a lump sum to council to provide them instead 

So say there were planning 200 houses with a proportion of affordable, they build 200 for private sale then there'll be the extra affordable on top of that 

And no one wants new housing near them or building or anything green

9 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

It isn’t.

Off to the cricket. See you all in 5 days 😉

 

 

Andrew Neil has been saying shite like this for nearly 20 years.

yet there you are, sat with 20,000 people paying a small fortune to watch a game of cricket.

Something must be right.

3 minutes ago, Spider said:

Andrew Neil has been saying shite like this for nearly 20 years.

yet there you are, sat with 20,000 people paying a small fortune to watch a game of cricket.

Something must be right.

I used to respect Andrew Neil for holding politicians to account over the years when he was on the BBC.

Now he is just back to shilling for Viscount Rothmore for money.

5 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

I used to respect Andrew Neil for holding politicians to account over the years when he was on the BBC.

Now he is just back to shilling for Viscount Rothmore for money.

ChatGPT has scoured his articles for the last 17 years and seems to agree:

 

 

94 dwellings including flats on what was 2 football pitches and a small club house  at what was Wyresdale , all timber frames , insulation and single brick up the outside. Not a breeze block in site !  to be fair they don’t look too bad, miles better than the ones built at St Osmunds former site, which look like a stage set or something. 
Wyresdales  new pitch set up looks ace too , but it’s not in Bolton any longer . 

@Spiderboltys up early

15 minutes ago, Casino said:

@Spiderboltys up early

That’s not Bolty, the guy didn’t blame sinister slags or go off on one about George Clooney and Celtic

4 hours ago, Casino said:

@Spiderboltys up early

Couldn't get a word in edgeways though.

On 23/07/2025 at 17:05, fatolive said:

94 dwellings including flats on what was 2 football pitches and a small club house  at what was Wyresdale , all timber frames , insulation and single brick up the outside. Not a breeze block in site !  to be fair they don’t look too bad, miles better than the ones built at St Osmunds former site, which look like a stage set or something. 
Wyresdales  new pitch set up looks ace too , but it’s not in Bolton any longer . 

Wyresdale's new pitches could be fucked in relatively short order.

Hot dry spring delayed seeding/germination, and the root zone won't be properly developed yet, especially given the dry summer so far.

My resident expert reckons a year once created before regular use.

We'll see once it starts absolutely pissing it down, and they get a bit of hammering.

On 23/07/2025 at 14:17, DirtySanchez said:

Problem is everyone knows we need to build more but no one wants scrotes living near them 

Similar people want more folk locked up but would object to a new prison being built near them 

Daft that- you'd reckon a new prison would be pretty secure, and living near by might be quite safe!

Surely any escapees would fuck off as far away as possible. 

42 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Daft that- you'd reckon a new prison would be pretty secure, and living near by might be quite safe!

Surely any escapees would fuck off as far away as possible. 

Classic NIMBYism 

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Daft that- you'd reckon a new prison would be pretty secure, and living near by might be quite safe!

Surely any escapees would fuck off as far away as possible. 

Imagine the reek of crime in the air though, be like living next door to an abattoir

40 minutes ago, DirtySanchez said:

Classic NIMBYism 

Aye, maybe.

Could understand if a big building spoiled the view, but rather that than a smelly tip, noisy factory or some such. 

Additional benefit of living near a prison is that you could buy a bow or an air rifle and practice shooting at all the drones.