Snowflake Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Who on earth designed them? Disco Sven? How much is it going to cost to maintain all that timber? Why did they not try and blend them in with the surrounding houses? Ideas for their road name - Sauna Street, Abba Avenue and Alpine Way for starters. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisenchuk Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Who on earth designed them? Disco Sven? How much is it going to cost to maintain all that timber? Why did they not try and blend them in with the surrounding houses? Ideas for their road name - Sauna Street, Abba Avenue and Alpine Way for starters. What do you think? I think they are first time buyer houses,not Corpy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbit Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Don't think they are corpy houses, and they at least don't look like the normal dandara box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 There a private build. with an option for gov to buy them as first time buyers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilly G. Ossenfeffer Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Who on earth designed them? Disco Sven? How much is it going to cost to maintain all that timber? Why did they not try and blend them in with the surrounding houses? Ideas for their road name - Sauna Street, Abba Avenue and Alpine Way for starters. What do you think? I assume you mean Castletown Road? Castletown, because it is a town with a castle, not a town with a cassle. (ETA: Come on, people, make some efforts with your posts.....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisenchuk Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 There a private build. with an option for gov to buy them as first time buyers Thats it,I knew I had read something that related to first time buyers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William_Hartnell Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 They are first time buyers and I heard a couple of weeks ago the Government have only managed to shift six of them. This explains why the developers were so keen to get the Government to underwrite the development! Apparently there is ample interest but very few are able to get the required lending. I have heard (from a less reliable source) the lending predicament is due to IoM Bank and Lloyds, the only two lenders that consider taking the FTB’s grant and/or top-up loan as a deposit, now insisting the buyer has some savings and/or no finance. Hopefully someone can confirm this but the reality is most applicants awarded a FTB property will not secure lending, certainly not at short-notice. Unfortunately, I have seen first hand a lot of existing FTB properties are lying empty due to previous occupants moving out and a lack of replacements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbit Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I assume you mean Castletown Road? Castletown, because it is a town with a castle, not a town with a cassle. (ETA: Come on, people, make some efforts with your posts.....) easy mistake, according to Marc Tiley on Manx Radio it is a Carsal and Sulby is Sowby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 Will look into the corpy/FTB tomorrow. Still look ugly either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilly G. Ossenfeffer Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I assume you mean Castletown Road? Castletown, because it is a town with a castle, not a town with a cassle. (ETA: Come on, people, make some efforts with your posts.....) easy mistake, according to Marc Tiley on Manx Radio it is a Carsal and Sulby is Sowby. 'easy', only if you have absolutely no knowledge at all of the IOM, and even then, common sense would dictate it was more likely to be Castletown than Cassletown. I find it quite staggering that someone posting on MF really doesn't know that there is a town with that name on the Island....(I can forgive 'Carsal' because it's only someone trying to pronounce castle in a posh way but Cassle is just silly!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queen Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Any one know what castletown was called before it was castletown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Why did they not try and blend them in with the surrounding houses? Why do we always have to blend in? When did the blending in start and why didn't they blend in then? Also why would you want to blend in with the eyesore that is Anagh Coar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Any one know what castletown was called before it was castletown? Balla Cashtal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadcaster Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 These are being built by Haven Homes and the first blocks are sold, they are just waiting for the sewer work to be completed and the new owners should be taking possession around early July. That's from the builders and not some man in the pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Big hole by the river town? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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