Through the keyholes: What kind of people live in these type of houses?

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[Ladytrucker]

Those gates would become a target for thieves if that was in Glasgow, lol. They like a challenge don't they.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

What about the two houses at the front of the photo, they're outside of the gated twats and exposed to commoners, how ghastly!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

A decent D-lock should keep them locked in for a fair amount of time.

 

[compo]

Fit nice steel gates around here and the pikeys would have them away in very short time.

 

[Hitchington]

Unfortunately indicative of what our society is becoming.

 

[swee'pea99]

The horrible thing is, it'll probably work. The developer's trading on the same kind of mentality that makes people in Kilburn give their address as West Hampstead. Bit of cheap gating (a daily inconvenience, in truth) and they'll be able to get 7% more, from the kind of people who like to feel they're a cut above. And all they'll get for it in truth is tosspot neighbours. Represents everything that's worst about a certain kind of distinctively English mentality.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The kind of mentality that confuses excluded community for exclusive community.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Option 11 - People who want to live in that area and think, 'Oh well, suppose we'll have to live with that dumb gate the builder put there to try and make it look exclusive and hike the price up'.

 

[Noodley]

You could have saved yourself writing a long list for your poll if you just had 2 options:
1. Nobbers
2. Not nobbers

Just sayin'...

 

[Noodley]

Oh, and as a matter of just being nosey - how much did they sell for?

 

[marzjennings]

Option 11 - People who want to live in that area and think, 'Oh well, suppose we'll have to live with that dumb gate the builder put there to try and make it look exclusive and hike the price up'.

This. I've lived in a couple of gated communities. Not because of any of the bone-arse reasons in the dumb poll above, but because they were the homes available to buy at the time.

One of the reasons some builders build gated communities is to avoid having to comply with town rules for lighting, street marking, signs, etc, etc. It's just a lot cheaper to throw up a gate and call it a gated community and then of course charge a premium for homes with no garden and garage.

 

[swee'pea99]

Everyone has the right to comment or object, although some grounds for objection aren't valid (you can't object that your view will be spoiled, for example). It's a good system, if nowhere near perfect.

Couple of night ago I watched a programme about Beeching, with Ian Hislop, who described how when the railways were being built, one landowner insisted that they build a long tunnel so's to protect the view from his house. The company protested at the expense, and ended up compromising with a massive sum in compensation instead. Which he pocketed, before cutting down a row of trees so he could get a good view of the passing trains!

 

[P.H]

Are you sure the gates are not to keep them in?

 

[srw]

It's a good system

Fighting talk!

[QUOTE 2386122, member: 1314"]Between £450k and £550k. That 30s house would go for between £300k and £350k. And it has a 60 foot garden. And a massive loft that can be converted. New ones are townhouses. Idiots.[/quote]
Here's a prediction: the next semi will go for £400k to a developer, who will allow it to run down until he can get the other half out for £375k. He'll then pull both down and put another cul-de-sac of twee overpriced boxes on the plot.

It's happening here - anything detached outside the conservation areas with a garden is being sold to developers, pulled down and replaced with 5 or 6 5-bedroom "executive homes". I suspect a lot of happens when someone gets too old to stay in the house, or dies in situ - the estate is obliged to maximise its value.