From ‘destitute doors’ to sky pools’,it’s clear that property developers in the capital are having a laugh when it comes to social housingLike stages of grief, the London housing market has come through denial and bargaining and has moved into the sixth stage: “Armando Iannucci sketch”. The new £15bn housing project in Battersea, and where flats start at £602000,has planning permission for a 25-metre swimming pool that literally looks down on the rest of London. The “sky pool” will be suspended between two tower blocks 10 storeys high, and will acquire a obvious floor, and will be the most expensive metaphor since that skyscraper melted a parked-up Jag.
Something has changed in the housing crisis. The goalposts acquire not moved so much as exploded in small bombs of glitter. There’s no point now in pointing out the disparities and the unfairnesses. The gap between us and them is so wide that the people paying cash unseen for new builds are in a different time zone,a gap so deep that it makes the Manchester sinkhole examine like a pockmark.
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Source: theguardian.com