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@wxm 4670 wrote:
Reading these forums, if we didn’t move housing to a more effective and sustainable solution n 2004 … why don’t we do it now
Because the tenants said no. And it wouldn’t be certain rents would be lower.
Not really it was all about speeding up capital spending. Things are not quite so bad now. And the Welsh Government doesn’t seem that bothered.
If you see my previous point planning is a farce in CW&C so less house building there so workers from Cheshire may move here. Planning committees don’t always justify on planning grounds are warned about it and still do it.
@wxm 4633 wrote:
Having decided to retain housing in 2004, how does that affect the levels of rents that tenants have to pay today? Could a trust or mutual spent less money, because Wrexham’s spend per capita is high compared to some . . . in spending £430m as a town, we must be able to spend less in places, and more in other places to make us more attractive to grow jobs?
Rent money is ring fenced anyway. If you take office sharing into account the loss of housing might increase costs initially. The reason for stock transfer was to catch up with capital spending. As that didn’t happen the capital spend on housing remains high as they catch up with that. So the housing costs have no bearing on the general spending you can disregard that in effect in terms of where money could be saved. Rents would have probably increased but more capital investment souls have been made quicker.
Just out of interest. Why are you so bothered when you live in Spain? We pay taxes to this country you don’t so your opinion of Wrexham goings on is somewhat irrelevant. In other words go away!
If you watch the Planners you can see who much of a lottery planning becomes. No disrespect to some experienced local members we have but they don’t need any planning qualification to make a decisions. Then appeals cost money as has been pointed out elsewhere. Wouldn’t happen in say school admissions. I can see English planning taken out of Council hands as they have become more not less restrictive.
@wxm 4592 wrote:
Wrexham should seriously consider moving its housing to a trust or mutual, and use what are currently reported as surpluses to enable financial reserves to be grown. With that and improved efficiencies, the trust could successfully take care of itself as so many do in the UK, and Wrexham Council reduces its overhead by not having to run it housing (takes £110m out of the budget, and a quarter of its work).
You might remember the tenants said no!
@thewayneinspain 4514 wrote:
This is proposterous and anyone who believes this lives in cloud cuckoo land.
Now I love tablets, I love laptops and computers… but…
ipads are good for reading ebooks, but they are absolutely useless for reference work in meetings. Why you ask? Because humans need to cross reference in meetings quickly, but they can only remember between 5 and 9 bits of information at any one time… ask any pyschologist. That means the need to look at different sources of information at anyone time. Now looking at three pages at once on a ipad is clunky, clumsy and difficult. Whether it’s very easy with three sheets of paper.
The only thing that is proposterous is you you dinosaur. A tablet device is easy to use for cross referencing.
