Oh Dear: Use it or lose it

[TheMonkey]

I'd just torch the place to be 100% honest.

If my property is TAKEN, I'd rather torch it than let some no good scummer have it.

[xoggoth]

I suggest this would be challenged under the Human rights act which has already effectively killed off the adverse possession AKA squatter's rights.

The European Court said:

"The taking of property in the public interest without payment of compensation reasonably related to its value is justified only in exceptional circumstances...... this principle is not confined to taking a property for public purposes but is equally applicable to the compulsary transfer of property from one individual to another"

[Lucifer Box]

But how is that going to prop up the property market? They need to be given a house each confiscated from the filthy digusting middle class pool of second homes or buy-to-lets.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Very good DP, very civil minded and a great help for the cause.

Doubleplusgood.

[DimPrawn]

I reckon I could fit 15 or so Chinese in the loft if the government are interested.

[hyperD]

I'm still waiting for when the government turns around and says: "Hmmm, you appear to have a 6 bedroom detached house, we're taking 4 rooms and housing some chavs on benefits there - because it's only fair".

[BobTheCrate]

And let me guess. Councils get to keep the rent which is deducted from their alotted Gov't budgets.

Thieves.

[milanbenes]

please, you're devaluing the Oh Dear.

Milan.

[milanbenes]

ja ja people like you always say things like that,


Milan.

[stackpole]

But let me guess... there will be some exceptions, including politicians, prisoners, lunatics, and doners to the labour party ....

You are correct...

And before any of you with empty second homes break out in a cold sweat, I should point out they are exempt, as are the houses of those people who work away from home.

In Westminster or Brussels for example.

[stackpole]

... it is the vagueness of the scheme and its openness to misinterpretation that makes it such a bad law.

No surprise there then.

[mcquiggd]

But let me guess... there will be some exceptions, including politicians, prisoners, lunatics, and doners to the labour party ....

Oh, and immigrants

[DimPrawn]

http://property.timesonline.co.uk/ar...248258,00.html

'New rules have just come into force allowing councils to take over and rent out homes that have been left empty for more than six months

On a Friday teatime, when everybody in Westminster was already on the train home and everyone else was watching the World Cup, Kelly’s department quietly outlined details of a strategy, dreamed up by John Prescott in 2004, that allows local authorities to seize houses lying empty. '



Oooops.

Milan.

Property is theft comrade.

[milanbenes]

http://property.timesonline.co.uk/ar...248258,00.html

'New rules have just come into force allowing councils to take over and rent out homes that have been left empty for more than six months

On a Friday teatime, when everybody in Westminster was already on the train home and everyone else was watching the World Cup, Kelly’s department quietly outlined details of a strategy, dreamed up by John Prescott in 2004, that allows local authorities to seize houses lying empty. '



Oooops.

Milan.