Derelict housing

From time to time I comment on the various bits of derelict building in Epsom, for example at reference 1, although, as it happens, a rehabilitation of that particular building, probably once staff housing for one of the mental hospitals, is now nearly complete.

We found that they have similar issues on the Isle of Wight where the large holiday camp behind Appley Walk, right on the handsome sea front esplanade at Ryde, has been derelict for some years now. The chalets illustrated, at gmaps 50.726173, -1.133746, are very similar to those at reference 1, and in a similar state now to that that those were in last October, before they got started on them.

One can only suppose that the council have the same sort of trouble coming to an agreement with developers about what to do with this prime but presently unsightly site as we do here in Surrey. And as it happens, the island council is dominated by independents, called there 'Island Independents', just as we are here in Epsom, although we call ours 'Residents Association'. The balance is nearly all conservative, which is odd considering the number of people who were clearly on minimum wages that we saw about the place. The sort of people who smoke on the street and maybe even have children as part of a bid to get onto a housing list. Perhaps their independents are really Labour, while ours are really Conservative.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/housing-crisis.html.