Converted garage on the market for £75,000 (From Bridgwater Mercury)

This was not a garage in living memory, it was a washing machine repair workshop, previously a hairdresser"s, previously a general conveninece store in the very early 1970s, a bookie"s shop, a sweetshop, and back into the mists of antiquity. Not a garage for parking cars, possibly a garage for selling car parts and spares, perhaps very old readers can remember something such?.

It was on the Daily Mail website that it was a garage so it must be true.

(Yeah, right, like they'd know!)

At the start of the next financial year housing benefit will not be paid,or will be greatly reduced, to thousands of families.This will probably mean that large numbers of people living in our city centres will be forced out of their homes and will be looking for cheaper accommodation.Bridgw
ater will probably be a prime target for city authorities looking to resettle people;we have low rents and cheap houses here compared to most places in the south of England.I dare say that this means we will see more unsuitable places being turned into so called accommodation.

Following my above comment I presume a lot of people in Bridgwater will be just as badly treated and will also find that they cannot afford to stay in their homes.

RustyKnight wrote:
It was on the Daily Mail website that it was a garage so it must be true.

(Yeah, right, like they'd know!)

There is an old photograph somewhere (possibly in the Blake Museum collection, or one of the Squibb"s books of pictures of old Bridgwater), which, if memory serves, showed this building in the 1920s as a motor garage, not a car garage, with a stock of tyres, oils, and possibly a petrol pump nearby.

awayswing wrote:
At the start of the next financial year housing benefit will not be paid,or will be greatly reduced, to thousands of families.This will probably mean that large numbers of people living in our city centres will be forced out of their homes and will be looking for cheaper accommodation.Bridgw

ater will probably be a prime target for city authorities looking to resettle people;we have low rents and cheap houses here compared to most places in the south of England.I dare say that this means we will see more unsuitable places being turned into so called accommodation.

Ref "see more unsuitable places turned into homes," If you are referring to the conversion of the former HMRC tax offices (opposite the Palace Nightclub) into flats, as being unsuitable, what would you prefer, seeing whole families crammed into temporary B & B accomodation because there is nothing else available?.

Rusty Hinge wrote:

awayswing wrote:
At the start of the next financial year housing benefit will not be paid,or will be greatly reduced, to thousands of families.This will probably mean that large numbers of people living in our city centres will be forced out of their homes and will be looking for cheaper accommodation.Bridgw


ater will probably be a prime target for city authorities looking to resettle people;we have low rents and cheap houses here compared to most places in the south of England.I dare say that this means we will see more unsuitable places being turned into so called accommodation.

Ref "see more unsuitable places turned into homes," If you are referring to the conversion of the former HMRC tax offices (opposite the Palace Nightclub) into flats, as being unsuitable, what would you prefer, seeing whole families crammed into temporary B & B accomodation because there is nothing else available?.

As it happens I did not have the HMRC building in mind.However if you think that converting a small shop into little more than a bedsit is adequate accommodation for a family then I suggest you think again.

awayswing wrote:

Rusty Hinge wrote:

awayswing wrote:
At the start of the next financial year housing benefit will not be paid,or will be greatly reduced, to thousands of families.This will probably mean that large numbers of people living in our city centres will be forced out of their homes and will be looking for cheaper accommodation.Bridgw



ater will probably be a prime target for city authorities looking to resettle people;we have low rents and cheap houses here compared to most places in the south of England.I dare say that this means we will see more unsuitable places being turned into so called accommodation.

Ref "see more unsuitable places turned into homes," If you are referring to the conversion of the former HMRC tax offices (opposite the Palace Nightclub) into flats, as being unsuitable, what would you prefer, seeing whole families crammed into temporary B & B accomodation because there is nothing else available?.

As it happens I did not have the HMRC building in mind.However if you think that converting a small shop into little more than a bedsit is adequate accommodation for a family then I suggest you think again.

No one on here has said this small home is family sized. It might make a perfect and affordable small freehold detatched home for one person, try looking on Rightmove etc and see what else you can buy in this area for £75,000.

Well if some mug is willing to pay 75K for it then good luck to them - they will need it.

File Yer Own Bleedin Teeth wrote:

awayswing wrote:

Rusty Hinge wrote:

awayswing wrote:
At the start of the next financial year housing benefit will not be paid,or will be greatly reduced, to thousands of families.This will probably mean that large numbers of people living in our city centres will be forced out of their homes and will be looking for cheaper accommodation.Bridgw




ater will probably be a prime target for city authorities looking to resettle people;we have low rents and cheap houses here compared to most places in the south of England.I dare say that this means we will see more unsuitable places being turned into so called accommodation.

Ref "see more unsuitable places turned into homes," If you are referring to the conversion of the former HMRC tax offices (opposite the Palace Nightclub) into flats, as being unsuitable, what would you prefer, seeing whole families crammed into temporary B & B accomodation because there is nothing else available?.

As it happens I did not have the HMRC building in mind.However if you think that converting a small shop into little more than a bedsit is adequate accommodation for a family then I suggest you think again.

No one on here has said this small home is family sized. It might make a perfect and affordable small freehold detatched home for one person, try looking on Rightmove etc and see what else you can buy in this area for £75,000.

Last year in the east end of London a slum landlord was taken to court for letting a row of garages out as family accommodation.The garages were deemed dangerous because of faulty electrics and dodgy plumbing and the local authority demolished them.One of the tenants said it was all he could afford.I am not suggesting that the above house is dangerous .However I am saying that decent accommodation should be plentiful and affordable.People should not be taken advantage of because of the widening gap between the haves and the have nots.Slumlords are not only to be found in east London.
I am in favour of increased house building in Bridgwater ,preferably on brown field sites.The recent postings regarding building at Haygrove Road that stated more new housing is unnecessary beggars belief.

P.S. having re-read the article.
£75k for two rooms and a bathroom does not sound like a good deal,more like taking advantage of people desperate for somewhere to live.

awayswing wrote:
P.S. having re-read the article.
£75k for two rooms and a bathroom does not sound like a good deal,more like taking advantage of people desperate for somewhere to live.

Sounds like a good deal for anyone, when you look on Rightmove and see the cheapest small local flat is offered at over £42,000 for a measly 40% shared ownbership - to buy the full ownership at this rate would presumably cost £100,000.