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Something good can come of this tragedy. 23:19 - Jun 16 with 3180 views

Let's tear these tower blocks down. With the money that can be raised we can rehouse these families and many more in decent low rise accommodation outside central London. We don't need to build towers to have high density living. We have more than enough space.

If we could shut down Heathrow and launch Boris Island that would provide a huge area.

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 23:20 - Jun 16 with 3167 views

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Bizarre.

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 23:31 - Jun 16 with 3130 views

StokieBlue

Only the last line of your post is sensible.

The rest is like the haircut in your picture.

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 23:38 - Jun 16 with 3106 views

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Money raised from where?

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 23:45 - Jun 16 with 3078 views

RimmersBrace

Something good can come of this tragedy. on 23:38 - Jun 16 by Guthrum
Money raised from where?

From the sale of the land. I just hope something good can come from this tragedy. If you look at the Bradford fire and Hillsborough, they both resulted in major progress.

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 23:51 - Jun 16 with 3054 views

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 23:31 - Jun 16 by StokieBlue
Only the last line of your post is sensible. The rest is like the haircut in your picture. SB

Please don't diss one of the greatest ever players to wear the town shirt.

Something good can come of this tragedy. on 23:53 - Jun 16 with 3052 views

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 23:45 - Jun 16 by RimmersBrace
From the sale of the land. I just hope something good can come from this tragedy. If you look at the Bradford fire and Hillsborough, they both resulted in major progress.

That money has got to pay for demolition, more land to build on, the cost of new housing for displaced residents, infrastructure to service that new housing, transport links to take people from new suburbs into the city for work and so on. Not going to stretch far enough - especially as dumping loads of land on the market at once will depress the sale price.

It was grand schemes of this sort which got these tower blocks built in the first place.

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 01:45 - Jun 17 with 2985 views

tcblue

There's nothing inherently wrong with these towers that a much smaller amount of money for refurbishment and safety improvements wouldn't solve.

Tax the hell out of the buildings left empty not two miles away from Grenfell and reinstate some proper controls which the Tories stripped away (because a lot of them are indeed slum landlords).

The answer definitely is NOT more economic cleansing of London as you're implying.

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 03:39 - Jun 17 with 2936 views

RimmersBrace

Something good can come of this tragedy. on 01:45 - Jun 17 by tcblue

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I don't know the area, so I could be wrong, but why would any normal family want to live there? Doesn't seem the right place for a family home. Surely it's not a place to raise kids.

Are the privately owned flats and houses not all second homes for work purposes during the week?

Surely it would make sense to knock down these towers and move the council houses further out. This would free up space for people who really need to be their for work. It would raise money to build more council houses. Win/Win.

Something good can come of this tragedy. on 03:50 - Jun 17 with 2930 views

tcblue

There are parts of any town you could mention where you could make the same snooty judgement.

Maybe people like living there? Maybe it's their community they've lived and worked in for their whole life? Do they have to move out when rich folks say so?

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 03:39 - Jun 17 by RimmersBrace

Something good can come of this tragedy. on 07:04 - Jun 17 with 2847 views

Pendejo

You are promoting a form of "ethnic cleansing" there

Effectively you are saying moving out the poor people and put more expensive accommodation in place for rich people to buy.

The thing is those working class folks in there probably work in Central London and by living there maybe say less than 30 mins from their jobs... move out of Central London and the commute becomes 1 hour+. Doesn't their work / life balance have any value?

Shut down Heathrow doesn't make any sense... Boris Island, however, does.

The main good that can come from this is a tightening of fire regs. The council spent millions on the block and an adequate sprinkler system would have cost less than £200k

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 08:09 - Jun 17 with 2786 views

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 03:39 - Jun 17 by RimmersBrace

Do council house dwellers not need to be there for work?

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Something good can come of this tragedy. on 08:48 - Jun 17 with 2745 views

tcblue

I assumed the OP was making further judgment that everyone in the poorer West London areas doesn't work and is on benefits. It really is a triumph of ignorance.

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