The one pound houses - channel 4

gmisk

Anyone else watching this?

Fair play to these people for the work they are putting into these houses...but you would have to pay me to live in that area!

fryup

my god that poor couple having their house burgled just before they were suppose to move in, gut wrenching for them

punisher5112

Not the brightest to leave a property empty with no other soul on the street.

Ideal place for a sting though.

Cops could have used as a bait house while they hadn't moved in.

Atlantic Dawn

fryup wrote: »

my god that poor couple having their house burgled just before they were suppose to move in, gut wrenching for them

The council should have not let people start work until all were ready to start work and then they should have provided security for 4 months or so of the renovation process where people would have been able to begin moving in.

gmisk

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The council should have not let people start work until all were ready to start work and then they should have provided security for 4 months or so of the renovation process where people would have been able to begin moving in.

And no insurance so 3k+ just down the drain!

I am finding the woman who moved in a bit of pain though tbh....she seems to have been molly coddled to a serious degree by here parents (who are funding the whole blooming thing!)

jos28

Brilliant idea and fair play to the Mayor for being so proactive but I think it has been badly handled by Liverpool Council. The houses themselves are gorgeous and would probably fetch £700k each if they were in London. As AD said earlier, the council should have provided security for the initial phase. They should have allocated the houses in batches close together so that people didn't feel isolated. They should have ensured that the house had no title issues before the scheme started. If a road or even a section of a road was completed I'd have no problem moving in. As it stands I be scared sh1tless to stay there. I was trying to think of somewhere comparable in Ireland but I can't think of anywhere as bad.

jos28

jos28 wrote: »

Brilliant idea and fair play to the Mayor for being so proactive but I think it has been badly handled by Liverpool Council. The houses themselves are gorgeous and would probably fetch £700k each if they were in London. As AD said earlier, the council should have provided security for the initial phase. They should have allocated the houses in batches close together so that people didn't feel isolated. They should have ensured that the house had no title issues before the scheme started. If a road or even a section of a road was completed I'd have no problem moving in. As it stands I be scared sh1tless to stay there. I was trying to think of somewhere comparable in Ireland but I can't think of anywhere as bad.

It might go against the main idea of "£1" houses but surely the council could have had them sign up at 50 quid a week each for a while to have security over night? And yeah, surely working in batches from the edges would make sense, make the derlict area shrink rather than have the odd inhabited place dotted around.

Atlantic Dawn

The council only putting in street lighting on this weeks episode, surely that should have been in all along before they let 1 person start work seeing as they would have been needed to be there either way for general road traffic and public accessibility to be safe, they make Dublin City Council look good.

fryup

i hope they do a follow series on this in a years time....ended a bit too rosy for my liking

jos28

Would love to see a follow up too. In fairness to the Mayor it was a great idea. They made mistakes but hopefully if the scheme is extended the same mistakes won't be made again. I can see other councils implementing similar schemes.