Meaning of pepper-pot | Babel Free

Definitions

To intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.

New-Zealand, UK

Examples

“In a government office not so long ago, we read an understandable petition from Europeans asking that these 'pepper-potted' people be removed, or they were going to move.”

“Although these would be of a maximum of 12 houses, he would prefer to pepper-pot rather than create the risk of "mini ghettos".”

“Residential surveyors also say pepper-potting reduces the marketability of a house.”

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