| Comment | Obviously not everyone, but new folk to the area may have bought. Also there will be private lets in the area and they have to be owned by someone. And that's a different kettle of fish. And even if we're not talking about buying and solely on rent, urban regeneration still caters to being accessible to folk renting through a housing association. What is the other alternative? Area's need to have some sort of gentrification coming in to save them from deprivation. If there's no sense of appeal put in to an area, who's going to want to live there?
And, without being pedantic, local businesses are in trouble without gentrification being talked about. It's unfortunate seeing small businesses fall through, but if there's an opening for something as niche as a cheese shop (I only personally know of one other dedicated cheesemonger on GWR, I think?) why does that have to be a bad thing? |
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