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Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:19 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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if you believe in a future for everyone to have a say or share in, this is it. for things to change first i must change. its your choice you choose, it is truly within your own hands and something i very much believe in. the future is bright the future is yours ... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... y-contract if you cant read it all, please ask, i will post it in its entirety ... |
Author: | paulzolo [ Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:55 pm ] |
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This programme on BBC 4 tells how residents took over their living spaces and made a much better job of it than the council. So much so that they found that the council was actually starting to do what they were doing elsewhere. They were the first to do this, and have become the model for all other such projects. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b ... et-glasgow |
Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:40 pm ] | |||||||||
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it can be done, just takes the nerve to do it ... |
Author: | paulzolo [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 9:42 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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I think everyone just got fed up living in a slummy hole which is what those blocks were becoming. In fact, they bought a building that would have cost £50,000 to demolish for a pound, renovated it and turned it into living accommodation. I think it was an old school. I almost ended up in Glasgow too - there were rumblings that some of the work in the DHSS was going to be shunted up either there or Newcastle, and those of us who were young, unattached and could be relocated. Actually, a few of use were thinking “yeah, why not,” but it didn’t happen. Rather glad now, seeing the kind of accommodation I could have ended up in at the time (latter half of the 1980s). |
Author: | big_D [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:53 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: How a small town reclaimed its grid ... |
We have a locally run Stadtwerke here. We use it for gas, water and electricity. We tried swapping 2 years ago to one of the big names, but it was a lot of hassle, and despite promises to the contrary, worked out more expensive, so we switched back. |
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