Tag: housing
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Not On Our Street
They’re all for housing…in principle.They’ll clap for nurses,in theory.They’ll nod at the telly when someone says“we need more homes.”But not here.Not on our street.Not where the bins go. They’ll say:It’s not the flats, it’s the traffic.It’s not the families, it’s the parking.It’s not the poor, it’s the planning.It’s not the change, it’s the character. They’ll…
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Inheritance Without a Future
Some days it feels like the countryhas been left in the airing cupboard too long.It’s all starch and mothballs and ruleswritten in handwriting no one under forty can read. Every policy arrives pre‑creased,smelling faintly of “back in my day,”designed for people who bought houseswhen houses still cost the price of a decent sofa. We queue…