Posted on 06/22/2017 2:57:13 PM PDT by aquila48
Residents evacuated from Grenfell Tower are set to move into a £2 billion luxury complex in the heart of Kensington, the Standard can reveal.
Plans are pressing ahead for some of the families made homeless from the devastating fire to be housed in one of London’s most desirable addresses.
New flats in a Kensington High Street development — where penthouses go for up to £13 million — will be used to provide accommodation for families following the huge blaze that destroyed the tower block last week.
Sixty-eight flats in the Kensington Row scheme have been acquired to permanently house families from Grenfell Tower, which is just a couple of miles away.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said: “Our priority is to get everyone who has lost their home permanently rehoused locally as soon as possible, so that they can begin to rebuild their lives.”
The new housing move comes after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for luxury empty properties in Kensington to be taken over by the Government to house victims, a demand rejected by ministers.
The development is the second part of a £2 billion regeneration project called the Warwick Road Masterplan.
The 68 flats have been bought by the City of London Corporation as part of the response to the tragedy, and handed to Kensington & Chelsea Council for social housing.
They will provide “longer-term accommodation” as 250 residents affected are currently being housed in hotels around the area.
The properties bought are a mixture of one, two and three-bedroom flats.
Two bedroom flats are currently being advertised for up to £2.4 million, but it is understood the City of London Corporation paid around £10 million for the flats thanks to an “extraordinary gesture” of goodwill by developer St Edward in selling the properties at their cost price.
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They won’t be luxury flats for long.
To those who paid full price: SUCKAAHS!!
No Motel 6’s in the United Kingdom?
Are they also going to furnish the apartments too and also teach the new residents how to behave? *snicker*
Guess who won’t be selling any more luxury flats in this area?
Doctor Zivago.
No, they won’t and soon there will be many flats up for sale, as well.
Only the very best.
I’m going to laugh when they set those luxury apartments on fire. Better increase the insurance.
Can you imagine if you were an owner of the other units having mostly illegal, third worlders moving next to you? Rent free?? Forever???
No, the liberal London taxpayers did.
Nobody with money who cares about their own safety is going to hang out with public housing rats. The owners, investors, and purchasers of these apartments are going to lose a lot of money. Socialism sucks.
There goes the neighborhood.
Nope. Probably chickens and goats will also become new residents.
The UK has gone seriously insane, this will not end well.
And who is going to pay full price for a flat there to have third world trash as neighbors?
I did some business in London a few years ago, out near Heathrow. The hotel I stayed at was not cheap. There was a lot of cooking going on in the rooms — there were no kitchens. Each room had at least a dozen occupants. The smells were horrendous — the middle eastern immigrants smelled like rancid oil and rotten onions. I’m surprised I didn’t see any goats in the hallway. Evidently the rooms were being paid for by the government. I only stayed one night — I had my client make other arrangements.
Unless you can afford to move out to the country, I don’t think there’s much an Englishman can do to get away from the invasion.
What if there is an outbreak of spontaneous house fires?
Will it be possible to upgrade to a newer and fancier model?
I have visions of problems with this feel-good plan.
Won’t be worth that shortly after
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