LIVELINE Thread - (05/10/11 to 14/02/2012)

Zwillinge

How is it only turning quater past two??

Boring -.-

AngryBollix

Twigster wrote: »

I live in the same estate, it's not an issue of paying a mortgage, it's about people fulfilling a contract they signed and not leaving an estate in an unsafe state.

If its in a contract has legal action been taken?

Skid

Horrible situation for these people to be in, all the same.

europa11

Would they not fill in the hole themselves rather than wait for something to happen?

I Heart Internet

She has a cool accent.......and a drainhole

Stripey Cat

Twigster wrote: »

I live in the same estate, it's not an issue of paying a mortgage, it's about people fulfilling a contract they signed and not leaving an estate in an unsafe state.

Were you put off by the name of the estate?

JonathanAnon

That's 18 Maudlin's Vale.. Doesnt look that bad tbh..

I Heart Internet

"The Height".........dumdumdum

Twigster

AngryBollix wrote: »

Twigster wrote: »

I live in the same estate, it's not an issue of paying a mortgage, it's about people fulfilling a contract they signed and not leaving an estate in an unsafe state.

If its in a contract has legal action been taken?

All that's left is high court action which doesn't come cheap and is fairly risky given that there's no guarantees anything would come of it, there is an arbitration procedure which developer just ignored.

AngryBollix

JonathanAnon wrote: »

That's 18 Maudlin's Vale.. Doesnt look that bad tbh..

Its smells like meath

Jaysoose

People buying off the plans..handing over extra money on the word of some spoofer...cant sympathise with these people.

Floppybits

Just reading this board. is there any subject that can be discussed on liveline without people on here taking the mickey or the usual shut up next caller please?

I have no problem with people coming on talking about the problems in housing estates that have not been finished.

yosser hughes

Does it really matter what they paid for the houses? The issue is the unfinished estate not the price they paid. They were happy to borrow that and happy to pay that price.
The estate being unfinished is the issue.

AngryBollix

Twigster wrote: »

All that's left is high court action which doesn't come cheap and is fairly risky given that there's no guarantees anything would come of it, there is an arbitration procedure which developer just ignored.

How strong is the case?

dulpit

Floppybits wrote: »

Just reading this board. is there any subject that can be discussed on liveline without people on here taking the mickey or the usual shut up next caller please?

I have no problem with people coming on talking about the problems in housing estates that have not been finished.

No, sure that's the point of this thread, isn't it?

pc7

Floppybits wrote: »

Just reading this board. is there any subject that can be discussed on liveline without people on here taking the mickey or the usual shut up next caller please?
.

The above is the whole point of this thread

Bertiebasher

this is v.boring...

Twigster

Stripey Cat wrote: »

Twigster wrote: »

I live in the same estate, it's not an issue of paying a mortgage, it's about people fulfilling a contract they signed and not leaving an estate in an unsafe state.

Were you put off by the name of the estate?

Haha no, i think there was a leper cemetery or something back in the day so the area where the estate is called the Maudlins

sudzs

Floppybits wrote: »

Just reading this board. is there any subject that can be discussed on liveline without people on here taking the mickey?

eh... no!

europa11

Joe mentions the politicians (rightly!) who allowed this situation to fester during the Tiger years (Adamstown, etc.).

Pity he forgot to squeek in a word about the national broadcaster that acted as willing cheerleader for the property madness.

AngryBollix

yosser hughes wrote: »

Does it really matter what they paid for the houses? The issue is the unfinished estate not the price they paid. They were happy to borrow that and happy to pay that price.
The estate being unfinished is the issue.

You rarely get the full picture. We're only getting one side.

Having said that i.'s difficult to have any great level of sympathy for any developer

yosser hughes

Twigster wrote: »

Haha no, i think there was a leper cemetery or something back in the day so the area where the estate is called the Maudlins

It's more likely that the developer just didn'tknow what Maudlin means and thought it sounded posh or something. Some bizarre names to estates around the country now.

pc7

I saw someone walking on a path Joe, they could have fallen Joe and died Joe. But they didn't and they were grand. :rolleyes:

Lapin

JonathanAnon wrote: »

That's 18 Maudlin's Vale.. Doesnt look that bad tbh..

I just took a spin down there via google street view. 6 foot high temporary fencing, Manhole covers protruding 3 inches above the road surface, 30 foot mounds of topsoil being mentioned now......

The place is a f'n disgrace and if the developer did make any money out of it he should be strung up.

AngryBollix

This has probably been mentioned and is a silly question but why wasnt the estate finished?

Did the builder go bust or what?

Twigster

AngryBollix wrote: »

Twigster wrote: »

All that's left is high court action which doesn't come cheap and is fairly risky given that there's no guarantees anything would come of it, there is an arbitration procedure which developer just ignored.

How strong is the case?

Well the place is left unfinished, as for one sided he was given the chance to put his side across today and refused.

AngryBollix

pc7 wrote: »

I saw someone walking on a path Joe, they could have fallen Joe and died Joe. But they didn't and they were grand. :rolleyes:

The kids were on the bikes doing kids stuff joe.

They could have fallen on the raiings joe.

They didnt Joe.

Its a disgrace Joe.

yosser hughes

Lapin wrote: »

I just took a spin down there via google street view. 6 foot high temporary fencing, Manhole covers protruding 3 inches above the road surface, 30 foot mounds of topsoil being mentioned now......

The place is a f'n disgrace and if the developer did make any money out of it he should be strung up.

It is a disgrace and the developer should be gone after. he should be gone after by the council rather than the residents. Surely they have a responsibility after taking the development levies and giving the planning permission.

JonathanAnon

This lad has just admitted that he lets his son play (on his bike) in an area that he KNOWS to be unsafe.. Surely it's his responsibility to keep his son safe, not to let him play and then retrospectively say "well my son was injured because of the builder"..

AngryBollix

Twigster wrote: »

Well the place is left unfinished, as for one sided he was given the chance to put his side across today and refused.

Is he still in business and if so what are the reasons for leaving the estate unfinished?