Stephen West
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Comment on: ALMO pays chief exec £260k per year
As a Bexley Council Rate Payer I have written personally to the leader of Bexley Council condemning this legal loophole that Nick Johnson has skilfully used to avoid losing his pension. This onshore equivalent of an offshore tax evasion is perfectly legal as it is not himself that has been employed by H&F but his company lol. The leader of Bexley Council in an honest statement stated that if she could do anything about this she would but that her hands and that of Bexley Councils are tied. Nick Johnson whilst continuing to take his pension is depriving Bexley Rate payers, young and old of vital services as cuts in services start to take hold. His salary is £260k and his pension is £50k making him one of the highest paid CEO of an ALMO/ Housing Association in the country.
Our Member of Parliament Ms Teresa Pearce is also taking an active interest in writing to the powers that be over closing down this immoral but legal loophole exploited by Mr Johnson.
Stephen West
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Comment on: ALMO pays chief exec £260k per year
As a Bexley Council Rate Payer I have written personally to the leader of Bexley Council condemning this legal loophole that Nick Johnson has skilfully used to avoid losing his pension. This onshore equivalent of an offshore tax evasion is perfectly legal as it is not himself that has been employed by H&F but his company lol. The leader of Bexley Council in an honest statement stated that if she could do anything about this she would but that her hands and that of Bexley Councils are tied. Nick Johnson whilst continuing to take his pension is depriving Bexley Rate payers, young and old of vital services as cuts in services start to take hold. His salary is £260k and his pension is £50k making him one of the highest paid CEO of an ALMO/ Housing Association in the country.
Our Member of Parliament Ms Teresa Pearce is also taking an active interest in writing to the powers that be over closing down this immoral but legal loophole exploited by Mr Johnson.
Stephen West
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Comment on: Landlords to launch £175m bank
Well your very lucky as statistics show that more homes repossessions come from those having bought in to part buy part rent schemes, with over the top purchase prices which cannot be negotiated, high rental on the remaining part together with service charges and maintenance costs, added together with local council rates. This means that a single person would need a disposable income of £35k a year, not many nurses earn that much! So where do they get off calling these schemes affordable. In our neck of the woods South London we discovered one of these landlords who are hoping to get involved in these schemes, were granted £600,000k by the Housing Corporation to build 30 new part buy part rent affordable homes for key workers. The homes and rent were pitched so high, that after 3 months only a few sold, the RSL then asked the HC if they could sell them on the open market, they were given permission and did not have to repay the grant funded by tax payers. Many were then sold to block purchasers who then sub let them out. This is by far not an isolated case as we dare say other RSL's are doing exactly the same.
Give the money to our elected authorities to benchmark for real affordable housing for key workers!
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Comment on: Landlords to launch £175m bank
Excuse me, but did the UK Tax Payer not recently come to the rescue of our big bank mortgage lenders on the proviso they started to help out business's and new mortgage lenders.
Part Buy Part Rent home ownership is the worst form of ownership as anonymous is right it provides a lucrative quick buck profit for Housing Associations/ RSL's to be able to offload poor quality new build homes that are not affordable to allow the majority of key workers for whom they are intended for to be able to afford anything more than a 50 or 75% stake in their hugely inflated costly homes with inflated 50% rent together with having to usually fork out for a 100% liability to contribute towards maintenance and service charges.
Any spare Government cash to build new affordable homes for key workers whether directly from the Government or indirectly from the now part nationalised UK banks should be given over to locally elected authorities to fund housing programmes and not the Johnny come lately profiteering private housing sector landlords that masquerades as social housing providers!
Stephen West
A leaseholder whose landlord is one of those hoping to get a slice of UK tax payers monies invested in British Banks to be able to turn a quick buck. -
Comment on: Shapps to tackle underoccupancy
Dear Mr P
We certainly had one specific former Council owned high rise block in Bexley that was originally designated a sheltered housing scheme, until our present landlords took over and stopped it allowing the usual low life druggies, and anti social yob types in to the block, its now gone completely down the pan.
We also had two more former Bexley Council owned tower blocks right in the heart of our town that even though were not designated sheltered schemes, such was the cleanliness of the blocks, with decent residents living in them and offering close proximity to the town centre River Thames etc that elderly tenants living alone in their houses gave them up to move to these blocks. My own mother included giving up a 3 bedroom house for a two bedroom flat as all the flats in the blocks were two bedrooms.
Now five years on thanks to our landlords and our former landlords Bexley Council, all manner of troublesome families have been herded in to our blocks with dozens of children with nowhere to play but landings and stairwells, that no single elderly living alone in their houses would even consider giving them up to move to our blocks such is the poor reputation we now have.
Done right it is highly possible to reverse this trend and make it a worthwhile move to single occupant tenants especially the elderly to give up their 3 bed houses to make way for larger families.
After all the reason these single occupants would have wanted larger homes and gardens in the first places many decades ago would have been to raise a family, so why in later life should they deny others that right to raise their families in a house with a garden for their children to play in until such times as the single elderly tenant in a 3 bedroom house dies.
Stephen West
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