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  • Cornucopia
    Cornucopia Posts: 16,554 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 23 May 2015 at 6:26PM
    Classic 50/60s boxes. The visible ends of the concrete floors and the brick dividers between properties are also a giveaway.

    Those look like Maisonettes (flats with a street door and two storeys internally).
  • spezial
    spezial Posts: 348 Forumite
    yeah and they are gonna demolish them soon
    but they are selling them!
    why?
  • Cornucopia
    Cornucopia Posts: 16,554 Forumite
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    No idea. Where are they?
  • spezial
    spezial Posts: 348 Forumite
    in Basildon
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,961 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Name Dropper
    spezial wrote: »
    yeah and they are gonna demolish them soon
    but they are selling them!
    why?

    Possibly by people who can't afford or don't want to wait until any compulsory purchase is completed. People who can't face the thought of living on a derelict site with boarded up properties occupied by drunks, druggies and squatters.

    Bought by people who think they will turn a profit on the compulsory purchase price.
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  • spezial
    spezial Posts: 348 Forumite
    what is the compulsory purchase price? who purchases what from whom and at what price?
  • Upsidedown_Bear
    Upsidedown_Bear Posts: 18,264 Forumite
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    spezial wrote: »
    what is the compulsory purchase price? who purchases what from whom and at what price?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_purchase_order
    https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/compulsory-purchase-system-guidance
  • booksurr
    booksurr Posts: 3,700 Forumite
    edited 23 May 2015 at 8:54PM
    spezial wrote: »
    what is the compulsory purchase price? who purchases what from whom and at what price?

    once again u ask a question which could be answered thus :
    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=explain+compulsory+purchase

    as it says : IS THIS SO HARD?
    your inability to help yourself is breathtaking (or symptomatic of your origin?)
  • bex2012
    bex2012 Posts: 245 Forumite
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    If you want lots of supermarkets, avoid ilford. All it has is a sainsburys in the town centre, and a small lidl. There's a bigger one further down the high road by the police station, but just those two. If you want a tesco, asda or morrisons you will have to travel.

    Grays has a much better choice of supermarkets, and they are nearer to each other.
  • spezial
    spezial Posts: 348 Forumite
    oh and I considered Ilford for its Lidl!
    and Grays has no Lidl, it has only the much inferior Aldi
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