Hi Goonan
I know what you mean about previous contributers being quiet.
As I have said previously the developer is still advertising properties for sale. I can't see that even they would do this in the present climate unless they were confident that licenses will be granted.
There are other properties opposite LaRdM that have been started and stopped left derelict eyesores for a few years now. Surely if demolitions were in the offing these would go.
I as a resident don't believe that demolition of a large complex like this would not be a viable solution under any circumstances. Why turn a nice developement into an area of a large bombsite, it would take years of lorries traveling up and down the hill and what would they do with millions of tons of rubble anyway. It certainly wouldn't return it to rural.
Many people have mortgages on properties here, who I am sure would not pay if their property was demolished, that would lead to a bank crisis on the costa. The courts would be full for the next twenty years with claims and counterclaims, from owners, deelopers, banks and utility companies.
I can't see that the local government would have spent millions on the new pgou on which LRdM is included if there was a chance that things would change so dramatically. They would have left it of in the first place.
In the block I live there are many tennants, most of whom work in the area, and from what I hear it is not difficult to rent out long term from e600 to e800 per month depending on the property.
Rental here is growing as an alternative to purchasing, with people enjoying the lifestyle without making the commitment to purchse at the moment.
And so endeth todays Rant
Keep 'em coming
John
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