Fed up with your landlord? Ask the Lottery Fund to buy them out
Which, roughly speaking, is what some Scottish Islanders have done.
They are trying to find £4.5m to buy out the owners of their estate, and the Big Lottery Fund is ponying up £2m. I do not play the lottery, so any outrage on my part is only in theory rather than practice. The Caledonian begging bowl is also being rattled at what would appear to be the staggeringly misnamed 'Highlands and Islands Enterprise', Scottish Natural Heritage and the Islands council. With a bit of luck, just through making some noise, they will get rather a lot for nothing. Nice, huh?
Maybe I should tell the Lottery Fund, Croydon Council, 'Croydon Enterprise' etc etc that they should buy out my landlord, as after all: ""This is about taking community land ownership back to its roots. "We also want to give communities more power over their lives to help them become stronger, with shared aspirations and the ability to achieve these together."
Don't fancy my chances.
They are trying to find £4.5m to buy out the owners of their estate, and the Big Lottery Fund is ponying up £2m. I do not play the lottery, so any outrage on my part is only in theory rather than practice. The Caledonian begging bowl is also being rattled at what would appear to be the staggeringly misnamed 'Highlands and Islands Enterprise', Scottish Natural Heritage and the Islands council. With a bit of luck, just through making some noise, they will get rather a lot for nothing. Nice, huh?
Maybe I should tell the Lottery Fund, Croydon Council, 'Croydon Enterprise' etc etc that they should buy out my landlord, as after all: ""This is about taking community land ownership back to its roots. "We also want to give communities more power over their lives to help them become stronger, with shared aspirations and the ability to achieve these together."
Don't fancy my chances.
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Some dross on the isle of eigg pulled the same trick , got a free island.
I do not see why the lottery should be for anything except gambling.Tax on stupidity . Gulp I`m next
That at any rate is my humble opinion oh great and media exposed Croydonian .
Blessed be the yellow of his sock
(congregation : for they are of cheerful hue)
sweaties with their hands out.there's a shock.give them freedom I say.
PHITCH - Don`t you sometimes think , when you see an entire mountain you can`t walk on because Lord Bastard of James iv owns it .Should anyone have the right to own this whole thing . Can`t it be , for everyone ?
I get that feeling about peoples wives as well. Not that this directly has anything to do with the greedy baby eating picts .( With salt and water I tell you , not even sugar!)
No mr mania
when i see a mountain i like i walk on it anyway always have done, with consideration of course.
talking of rights of access , the national trust is the worst for allowing access.
I walk on it anyway....ah yes an elegant solution . Bravo.
I `ve never noticed that with the national trust , I like it as an organistation. In general I approve of nationally organised strategic arts and culture and history funding . Socila coherence , rootedness.
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands;
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm,
this England !!!!
( just something in my eye...sniff sniff)
What we get is Music cut from R3 so Jonathan Dross gets more money doing something that belongs in he private sector if anywhere.
If it only islands the quangos and so forth will fork out, roll on the Island of the Damned (Canvey) and L'Isle des Chiens...
PH - Because it is there? Although in favour of upholding property rights, trespassers will not be prosecuted, as it is not a criminal offence.
Good idea the "Isle des trafic" at Archway will be the subject of my triplicate application
C
I am very aware of the trespass laws (and their history)
I used to be able to see kinder scout from my living room window.
I quite like the idea of right to roam ,at first glance it seems unfair to landowners , however , those that can be bothered to walk more than 50 feet from a road tend not to be the kind to drop litter and leave gates open. Now somebody is going to remind me that hindley and brady were keen hill walkers.
N - A fine plan. I hear Bermuda is quiet pleasant.
PH - A fair point, in terms of the practical, although apparently Everest is awash with Kendal mint cake wrappers and the like.
Broadening it out a bit, apparently rights to graze sheep and the like apply to the gardens of some of the NW3 literati, as the easements apply to what was common land that was enclosed. I am tempted to borrow some Dorset Downs, Greyface Dartmoors etc so I can set them loose on Margaret Drabble's herbaceous borders.
I wonder if there is some kind of clause in george Michael's lease that gives him special rights over hampstead heath.
I am just going through a lease extension with a tenant, marvellous, its payback time for all her inconsiderate behaviour in the past,it going to cost her rucks to extend it.
I also have an American tenant who took about three years to fully understand that she doesn't own her flat, the previous lessee also had a problem understanding that whilst she had a lease on a top floor flat she didn't own the loft above it, which kiboshed her plans for a loft conversion.
hehheh I love feudalism.
I cannot help but notice that both kinder and eigg have appeared in the PHITCH , posts.
.......Suddenly the coffee cup falls from my hand (a la Usual Suspects) but is this verbal or , as seems quite possible .
Keyser Soze !...
Well I know what I mean.
Like your remark about right to roam and all most amusing
N - ooh err. And what a fine film 'The Usual Suspects' is.
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