Affordable Housing

So, there's another £1 million going into so called Affordable Housing ( http://www.shetnews.co.uk/news/12365-big-boost-for-affordable-housing)

What does this mean to working people at the lower end of the property market? As a married man with young children I will certainly not be able to to get on the the list for the new Hjaltland houses, given the apparent prerequisite for folks to be separated or unemployed before they can get towards the top of the list for a Hjaltland house. 

Still, seeing as the Staney Hill development will likely be a 'mixed' development like the ones they blasted half the hill at Sound to make then perhaps we could climb the property ladder? Should be able to get something for about the £300-380k mark, going by the current market value. 

My point is, what's being done to address the housing issue for ordinary working families? Nobody on an average income is going to be able to afford the mansions that are being built privately. The best anyone can hope for in Lerwick is to buy an old council house, which are going for about £150k, which is what we paid last year.  Guess I'll have to speak to the divorce lawyers and maybe get back on the dole to get one of the nicer new council houses... 

 

So, there's another £1 million going into so called Affordable Housing ( http://www.shetnews.co.uk/news/12365-big-boost-for-affordable-housing)

 

What does this mean to working people at the lower end of the property market?

Sausage all! It'll build seven houses, which with a "Waiting List" of over 800 applicants/individuals?? will make so little difference no-one unless the seven who get them will notice.

Surprised that we are not importing cheap chalets from China or else where in the FarEast.

Could be the one thing that is not made over there and imported !

135K per house,it will take a few years rent to re-coup that ,30 years perhaps but folk need homes.

Incidentaly anyone seen the state of some of the houses in Sandveien,looks like the wrong cement was used in the blocks again

These costly repairs will likely divert money away from new builts.

has anybody out there thought about getting a piece of land and with like minded people building a few tiny homes as seen on the tv program of that name. put green magic homes into your computer and that might give you a few ideas

Looks a good idea cicero, but would need a few adaptations to make them suitable for our extreme weather conditions,wind and rain ect. 

Keeping that grass on the roofs from being washed away might be tricky!

If they could be imbedded into the face of steep cliff,but that would.probably create more problems.

Places like Mavis Grind come to mind

you can put rocks on them

I should have said that you can insulate the outside then cover them with small rocks, all we need is a group and a landowner who would like to move on a few acres of useless land, plenty of that here. the site would have to be close to electricity and a water supply, you would use septic tanks, you could start small and add on in later years and they are much cheaper than conventional build

Well,cicero not sure i would like to live under a pile of rocks,if the roof collapses ----

More I think about it,doubt if Green magic would work up here.

Just to add a bit to the pot. Petrofac are more or less gone, the Sullom Sweetening Plant is conspicious by its silence, Viking are still wallowing largely directionless, and the new power station is proceeding with all the rapidity of a lazy gereatric sloth....and SIBC reported a few days ago that Shetland had recorded a significant year on year drop in house selling prices.

Soon there'll be a good few cheap houses coming on the go, leaving an equal number of folk with burned fingers, unless something changes to boost the market again.

no chance of the roof collapsing, there is more chance of the normal roof blowing off / a dome on the ground can carry a lot of weight

no chance of the roof collapsing, there is more chance of the normal roof blowing off / a dome on the ground can carry a lot of weight

Until with age it crackes,then *#*£££.

Just to add a bit to the pot. Petrofac are more or less gone, the Sullom Sweetening Plant is conspicious by its silence, Viking are still wallowing largely directionless, and the new power station is proceeding with all the rapidity of a lazy gereatric sloth....and SIBC reported a few days ago that Shetland had recorded a significant year on year drop in house selling prices.

 

Soon there'll be a good few cheap houses coming on the go, leaving an equal number of folk with burned fingers, unless something changes to boost the market again.

Unfortunately I think you are correct,possibly the rents will also come down!

I wish the rents would come down. I have been offered a job in Shetland but at £900 a room? I currently pay £620 for a 4 bedroom house with garage. Who can actually afford to live up here?

I wish the rents would come down. I have been offered a job in Shetland but at £900 a room? I currently pay £620 for a 4 bedroom house with garage. Who can actually afford to live up here?

Is that £900 a room in Lerwick? You may well find rental properties outwith "da toon" for a lot less. Agree with what Scorrie says, negotiate, the rental market is nowhere near as lucrative as it was even 6 months ago.