Headline ending in a question mark..... the answer is always No.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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A new development popped up in Nottingham recently. Nestled in between a main road and a train line, overlooked by the ruined husk of the old Virgin Media building, and conveniently across the road from a sewage plant.
I'm expecting them to complete and sell over the winter, because it smells delightful on any day over 20°C.
The answer is definitely no.
It's impossible to build beautiful when houses are crammed into every inch of space. I utterly lament any modern housing estate where the houses have a foot wide garden at the front that leads straight onto the pavements. Let alone the ghoulish postage stamp back gardens with no privacy.
Space is needed for beauty. A tree needs space to grow. The closest we seem to get now is the sustainable urban drainage system (suds). As suds are a green area with a path built around them.
I literally don't want to move from where I am as the estate was built with passageways between the streets, with large breaks of green space between blocks of housing and mature trees to boot.
I literally don’t want to move from where I am as the estate was built with passageways between the streets, with large breaks of green space between blocks of housing and mature trees to boot.
The little green spaces around my estate have been slowly disappearing, having claustrophobic little houses crammed onto them, it's depressing. I honestly don't like kids, but the neighbourhood kids used to be able to just faff around on the green spaces here close to home. Now those spaces sport a handful of bungalows and the kids have nowhere to pass the time. Seriously, people keep lamenting that their kids aren't going outside to play or loitering where they are a nuisance, but there's no fucking space for them any more. Where do you want them to go? The road?
Being a kid nowadays must really suck.
We are not helping ourselves by building detached or semis. Look at (good) victoria terraces.
So you want to bring in unlimited migrants and not build high density housing? Good luck with that bruv.
Not sure the last word of the title is needed.
The article could have been a meme. You know the one.
They are some seriously big outside toilets.
An article so cleverly written as to make it almost incomprehensible. Someone get this person a sub-editor.
High density, solar panels. What's to complain about?
Iirc Boris had a pitch for being 10 mins from a football pitch, that'd work for me. Bout the only thing he said that didn't seem like Etonian word salad.