Why is wasteland so expensive

I tried on everything from ornately embroidered blouses to magenta leather pants. I would have bought half the clothes in the store if not for the obscene price tags attached to them.

One piece in particular, a sleek black jumpsuit, drew me closer into its magnetic field every time I passed it. Fully knowing I had no intention of buying it, I took my time admiring the handsome object in a massive tri-fold mirror before handing it back to the wary sales associate.

The store was teeming with beautiful people toting even more beautiful dogs. They pursed their lips and examined racks of high-end jackets and shawls through their designer sunglasses. I nearly bumped into a man who looked like the lovechild of Derek Zoolander and a cologne advertisement; he was modeling a sleeveless hoodie and posing full-on Blue Steel in the mirror. I felt sheepish. In my defense, every other elaborate garment I wanted to buy fell way out of my price range.

I had decided the soft material of the shirt would work well in a cozy outfit to study in the next day. See for yourself, maybe you have ideas on the riddle from Vala — then be sure to write them in comments and letters to the radio station.

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Staircases have plants growing out of them and in many cases there are ferns and plants growing through the roofs of these mansions. In one house there were carcasses of pigeons littering the floors, not what you would expect from some homes carrying a price tag of over a few million pounds.

Most of the houses on The Bishops Avenue are not owned by Londoners, mainly because the asking prices are out of reach of most people.

Instead they have been bought by wealthy buyers from overseas. Many of the properties in the street are registered to companies based in locations thousands of miles away from the residential street. The reason behind this is that the owners can then remain anonymous and can purchase these mansions without paying the dreaded stamp duty that British residents have to pay. On mansions this size the amount of stamp duty would equate to hundreds of thousands of pounds.

One resident on the street has rented his property for the past seven years but has never met his neighbours and thinks that of all the properties near him, only three are actually lived in most of the time. Anil Varma explained the road now had very few local residents living there because a lot of the properties had been bought by the royal families of Brunei and Saudi Arabia twenty five years ago and had been left to rot and decay.

Searches carried out proved that according to the water authorities records many of the properties were not using any water at all. What is more alarming is that England alone has more than , empty homes but we are in the middle of a housing shortage, which is increasing by , homes every year. Boris Johnson believes that the only way to solve this is by charging higher council tax for those people who do not live in their properties or fail to rent them out after two years.