Bit conflicted, more housing the better but this urban sprawl version isn’t it. Surely there’s sufficient brownfield sites to build dense housing in the West Midlands?
Edit: that’s not to say the green belt is always all flowers, and hedgerows etc. I just think we should be limiting the spread of our urban areas for many reasons.
My neice lives in a village of just over 100 homes outside of Wolverhampton. Developers have submitted plans to increase it by just under 1,200 and the District Council sees no problem with this. Oh apparently one of the councillors own all the agricultural land that’s being proposed so he gets a huge huge windfall if he gets to sell it.
ate’ building out
ate’ building up
luv’ not building anything at all
luv’ me overly inflated house I bought 30 years ago
simple as
What we really need is high rises. People, understandably, are horrifed at the thought. That’s because we can’t imagine high rises without thinking about grey shitholes, with broken lifts, stairwells that stink of piss, and fuck all sound insulation.
None of that is necessary. It’s entirely possible to build decent quality high rises, with proper sound insulation and accomodation quality. It’s just more expensive, yet only slightly so when we consider what they offer. The fact is that for an extra 50k profit the developer would rather make a shithole that will be terrible for the physical and mental health of people living inside it, and be torn down within 50 years, than they would build something that will last 200 years and provide quality housing. Same as the absurdity of planned obsolence, but for shit housing.
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Bit conflicted, more housing the better but this urban sprawl version isn’t it. Surely there’s sufficient brownfield sites to build dense housing in the West Midlands?
Edit: that’s not to say the green belt is always all flowers, and hedgerows etc. I just think we should be limiting the spread of our urban areas for many reasons.
My neice lives in a village of just over 100 homes outside of Wolverhampton. Developers have submitted plans to increase it by just under 1,200 and the District Council sees no problem with this. Oh apparently one of the councillors own all the agricultural land that’s being proposed so he gets a huge huge windfall if he gets to sell it.
ate’ building out
ate’ building up
luv’ not building anything at all
luv’ me overly inflated house I bought 30 years ago
simple as
What we really need is high rises. People, understandably, are horrifed at the thought. That’s because we can’t imagine high rises without thinking about grey shitholes, with broken lifts, stairwells that stink of piss, and fuck all sound insulation.
None of that is necessary. It’s entirely possible to build decent quality high rises, with proper sound insulation and accomodation quality. It’s just more expensive, yet only slightly so when we consider what they offer. The fact is that for an extra 50k profit the developer would rather make a shithole that will be terrible for the physical and mental health of people living inside it, and be torn down within 50 years, than they would build something that will last 200 years and provide quality housing. Same as the absurdity of planned obsolence, but for shit housing.
State-built high quality homes NOW.