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  • captainhindsight_2
    captainhindsight_2 Posts: 1,274 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    Not in the same street as you infer.

    Here's a good example of the closest you will see

    Belhelvie Cairn View

    Is an extension street in a village.
    It actually has 2,3,4 & 5 Beds in the street (The 2 beds were part of the affordable housing requirement)
    Round the corner there are 3 bed terraced.

    I don't think these have provided the social benefit you have hoped for

    I know of another scheme where all the residents had a central social club, run and funded by the residents.
    I believe there was about 5 of these set up and only one which is still running

    Where I live north derbyshire/staffordshire, there are plenty of streets with a mix of housing see here a mixture of housing types and sizes ranging from social housing owned by dales housing and £1m+ all alongside each other.

    If modern developments were like traditional ones, people from different backgrounds would integrate more IMO.
    "talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish" - Euripides
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    captainhindsight wrote: »
    If modern developments were like traditional ones, people from different backgrounds would integrate more IMO.

    I have to ask, do they integrate?

    Do the people of social housing have dinner evening with their £1million + homeowner neighbours?
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • captainhindsight_2
    captainhindsight_2 Posts: 1,274 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    I have to ask, do they integrate?

    Do the people of social housing have dinner evening with their £1million + homeowner neighbours?

    Yes they do
    "talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish" - Euripides
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    captainhindsight wrote: »
    Yes they do

    What a wonderful part of the world you live in.
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • Bantex_2
    Bantex_2 Posts: 3,317 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    What a wonderful part of the world you live in.

    Borcetshire?
    Rum te tum te tum te tum, rum te tum te tum tum.
  • Bantex_2
    Bantex_2 Posts: 3,317 Forumite
    In the end though, the success had very little to do with enterprise zones and was also entirely due to the expansion of the City financial sector. Canary Wharf in anywhere else would have been a failure.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Bantex wrote: »
    In the end though, the success had very little to do with enterprise zones and was also entirely due to the expansion of the City financial sector. Canary Wharf in anywhere else would have been a failure.

    That's a pure assertion. It's meaningless.

    Just because you really, really believe it doesn't mean that it's true.
  • Bantex_2
    Bantex_2 Posts: 3,317 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    That's a pure assertion. It's meaningless.

    Just because you really, really believe it doesn't mean that it's true.
    Do you believe that if Canary Wharf had been built in the outskirts of Bradford or Hull or in the Welsh Valleys it would have been a success?
  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 2,187 Forumite
    Bantex wrote: »
    In the end though, the success had very little to do with enterprise zones and was also entirely due to the expansion of the City financial sector. Canary Wharf in anywhere else would have been a failure.

    Yes, companies moved there, as was the plan. You seem to be saying it should not count as it worked exactly as intended.

    As you to your assertion that it would have failed anywhere else, it's just that, an assertion. I suspect otherwise.
  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 2,187 Forumite
    Bantex wrote: »
    Do you believe that if Canary Wharf had been built in the outskirts of Bradford or Hull or in the Welsh Valleys it would have been a success?

    Dishonest shifting of goalposts noted...
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