Cambridge pool
It’s funny how a few selfish individuals are more than willing to overlook neglected core infrastructure for a new Cambridge pool in their supposed quest for health and wellbeing of the district.
Again, putting the needs of a few before the needs of many!
Selfish individuals obviously ‘‘happy for:
Council staff to be overpaid, who are gloriously failing to fulfil their paid duty of care to the ratepayer.
Council continuing to neglect our core infrastructure.
Our money being wasted on luxuries rather than necessities. Especially on an event centre we are still paying for and now a library.
Families to endure inadequate water quality and supply, overcapacity sewage and stormwater.
The ‘‘neglected core infrastructure’’ and ‘‘new Cambridge pool’’ situation is so absurd that it can be compared with the building of a new house and a pool. Any sensible, logical individual builds a solid base (ie, services infrastructure and foundations) first before building the rest of the house to accommodate your family – before consideration is even made to whether they can still afford to install a pool. Only a fool builds a pool first, as again any logical, sensible individual would acknowledge that any cost overrun in the installation of the pool may compromise the integrity and design of a solid base for your house – even before you have a place to accommodate your family, unnecessarily placing your family’s future health and wellbeing at risk.
Those who believe a new Cambridge pool is more important than having adequate core infrastructure are fools!
Te Awamutu
the property for $300,000 with a mortgage secured over the whole property, this money would then be sufficient to clear the existing mortgage and build the twobedroom unit. The Phillips would then own a half share in the property, the couple would pay the mortgage and be responsible for maintaining the house.
The end result is pretty good from both points of view, the family have got on to the housing ladder for an affordable figure and the Phillips have a new small two-bedroom unit and no mortgage. The problem lies in putting the arrangement together. It is easier if you can keep the arrangement within the extended family as I did, but I don’t believe it would be impossible to find a solution along these lines. Certainly you need to have good impartial advice to avoid ‘‘rip-off’’ merchants. One organisation that might be able to help is Habitat for Humanity who have experience in getting people into housing.
Mangawhai