Property News · January 21, 2016

The Great British toilet heist | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett


Our lavatories have been privatised. And for their profiteering new owners, free-at-the-point-of-use pissoirs are nothing more than a public inconvenienceKeen observers of the entropic farce that is the London property market will have spent the last decade or so watching in horror as their beloved city, with all its cherished peculiarities, is transformed into a callous, Itsu-populated playground for oligarchs, smarmy Foxtons neo-geezers and buy-to-let Tory MPs (who, in voting down a bill stipulating that rental properties be fit for human habitation, have come about as close to caricatures of cackling Dickensian slumlords as it is humanly possible to be in modern Britain).So they are unlikely to be surprised by this week’s news that a former public toilet in Spitalfields has been put on the market for the tasty sum of £1m. Why would you be, when you’ve considered renting a shelf with a sleeping bag off Gumtree for £800 a month? Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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