That’s pure bullshit! Because once a house is built in a shitty way, it continues to fuck up its tenants and neighbours.
We should not sacrifice long-term comfort for a few days less of building a property.
And the reason so many new projects got blocked are simple: they are the most disgusting, dehumanising blocks imaginable. Nobody wants such shit in their neighbourhood. Come up with a good looking building and people will support!
Regulations contribute, but we need those regulations. The one thing we need to do better immediately is to allow higher density buildings *in cities* and cities need to come up with a unified approach and style to it.
Not far away from here is the country’s largest residential construction site. That’s an absolutely insane sight. My whole neighborhood has been under construction for a decade and it’s still far from enough.
You know what is also not helping? Most old houses are owned by old singles or couples and they can’t or won’t sell those. Overzealous heating regulations have made it so that they need to either invest hundreds of thousands of francs or sell at a huge loss. They are currently doing neither, occupying so much space and losing money long term. This problem will only go away when their heating unit dies and they are forced to sell.
yeah no, as someone who had a new house build right next to me a couple of years ago and had to listen to a very loud pump all over easter, because construction workers could not be bothered to turn it off when they went for their weekends (and basically every night for half a year). reducing restriction in noise is a very bad idea.
also anyone who has ever been to china or a similar place should have heard all the building and bustling going on at 3am, this reduces quality of life significantly
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That’s pure bullshit! Because once a house is built in a shitty way, it continues to fuck up its tenants and neighbours.
We should not sacrifice long-term comfort for a few days less of building a property.
And the reason so many new projects got blocked are simple: they are the most disgusting, dehumanising blocks imaginable. Nobody wants such shit in their neighbourhood. Come up with a good looking building and people will support!
Regulations contribute, but we need those regulations. The one thing we need to do better immediately is to allow higher density buildings *in cities* and cities need to come up with a unified approach and style to it.
Not far away from here is the country’s largest residential construction site. That’s an absolutely insane sight. My whole neighborhood has been under construction for a decade and it’s still far from enough.
You know what is also not helping? Most old houses are owned by old singles or couples and they can’t or won’t sell those. Overzealous heating regulations have made it so that they need to either invest hundreds of thousands of francs or sell at a huge loss. They are currently doing neither, occupying so much space and losing money long term. This problem will only go away when their heating unit dies and they are forced to sell.
yeah no, as someone who had a new house build right next to me a couple of years ago and had to listen to a very loud pump all over easter, because construction workers could not be bothered to turn it off when they went for their weekends (and basically every night for half a year). reducing restriction in noise is a very bad idea.
also anyone who has ever been to china or a similar place should have heard all the building and bustling going on at 3am, this reduces quality of life significantly