Over Development

[Officer Dibble]

Another thing that's pissing me off about modern Britain is over development. Have you noticed that there have been lots of little shops, factories and petrol stations closing down over the last few years, only to be replaced by high density 'Barrett' dwellings?... Yeah, me too. It's that fucker John Prescott and his noncy New Labour colleagues who are behind it all. They want to build lots of extra new houses for house public sector drones and boring bastards, who will buy the Guardian and vote for them at the next election. The emphasis is on high density and minimal car parking provision (new labour nonces aren?t all that keen on private cars - too individualistic, too empowering of individuals.) The upshot is that they are packing people in like rats. Now, I don't know about you, but I like a bit of fucking space round my castle - to park my cars and those of my guests, as well as to insulate myself from the inevitably annoying sounds of neighbours TV's, Stereos and barking mutts. But shit, it's getting that bad that I'm frightened to nip down to Waitrose, in case, when I get back, there's a fucking tower block of chavs on my lawn, or a development of dolls houses in my back yard!

The next time you visit a 'Barrett estate' if you look closely you will see that the cars are parked half on the pavement and half on the road - because the roads aren?t fucking wide enough! John Prescott and the developers probably worked out that they could fit half a dozen more 'houses' onto the development if they made the access roads two foot slimmer! Cunts. I hate being crowded in.

And have you seen the state of the so-called new ?houses?. They all appear to have the expansive dimensions of a dollhouse and be constructed of plasterboard. There's usually a few fashionable gimmicks in them to impress those who don?t know any better and distract them from the fact that when they park their car in the garage, they can?t open the fucking door to get out! And did you know that the developers have special three quarter sized furniture made for their show houses, to give you the impression that your normal sized sofa, chairs, coffee table and TV will fit in there, no problem? Yep, I?m afraid they do.

Thankfully, I don?t have to put up with any of that shit ? my gaff is four hundred years old, grade two listed, brimming with character, and made of Yorkshire sandstone ? the walls being three foot thick in places! To say ?They don?t make ?em like that anymore? seems an understatement.


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[LaughingGravy]

Yeah..... No chance of banging a nail into a new home......lol

its due to over population, ive always said those on the dole for more than 5years should be steralized, cos rats breed rats.

Plenty of space on the scottish islands if you dig artic conditions and women with male husky accents..

[randyandy]

Fuck me hadn't realised Barrett's only started building houses after Labour came to power.

Thanks for the info.

[Deuce Bigolo]

Your right,car parking is a huge issue
with regards to developements.Developers will try every trick in the book to avoid providing car parks

Take Westfield Marion in Adelaide...biggest Shopping centre in the southern hemisphere...at X-Mas residents who live 4 streets back in every direction will be fined if they park in the street because the council has deemed them extensions of the Shopping Centre car park....bizarre

I agree with about cheaply made accomodation
One word springs to mind-GHETTO

Best example I've seen of a reputable building firm(A V jennings) doing it on the cheap was a driveway that was made so narrow that the new owners in their regular sized Holden Sedan got instantly wedged tighter than a
hand in a glove when they pulled into the driveway for the first time

cheers
B....OZ

[Officer Dibble]

"Your right,car parking is a huge issue
with regards to developements.Developers will try every trick in the book to avoid providing car parks"

Jeez, if there's not enough room for ample car parking in the vast emptiness of Oz, then where is there?

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[Deuce Bigolo]

You'd be surprised as to how small OZ(built up coastal areas)really is because the original planning never ever looked 30/40/50 years ahead

Everyone was buying a 3 bedroom house on a 1/4 acre block which meant major arterial roads were kept to the bare minimum of 2/3 lanes each way
and parking a non-issue until the consumer age arrived.1 car families suddenlly became 3/4 car families and choked the hell out of everything and are still doing so

As for the backstreets around the rich green leafy suburbs,in many cases they could easily accomodate 3/4 cars side by side...farcical

No wonder they call Adelaide South Australia a big country town

In the past 10/15 people living the Aussie Dream of owning their 3 bedroom double brick house on their 1/4 acre block have started selling off their backyards to developers/builders for cash

As suburbia has just about reached its outer limits its only going to become more congested

cheers
B....OZ

[RetroDon]

That's one thing that really saddens me in the UK... people with a half decent-sized garden selling it off to developers so they can sort themselves out a reasonable sum to live on. It's ok for the people making the money but aesthetically and morally it's a sad thing. It's becoming more and more common. All those fantastic big old houses built for the merchants families years ago having their lovely big gardens filled with "executive" (2 car garage for ?450K Hurrah!) homes all squashed up together, it's quite repellant. Terraced end houses that have another house of a similar design built onto the side... urgh! Worse still is when bullying developers take a lovely expensive (and often extremely well-maintained) house with grounds, cross some lefty councillors palms with silver and knock it down to build homes for the peasants.
And it's annoying for me, cos as someone who collects classic cars and would ideally like them "on-site" when I come to invest in my dream home there's going to less and less choice available. (not that people can really be blamed for cashing in, we're all being squeezed financially until the pips squeek, there's no guarantees in anything anymore)
I'm right with the good officer on the new "barratt" style homes, my auntie and uncle bought their "dream home" 7 years ago, a "large" 3 bedroomed detached on a new estate at the foot of a cul-de-sac. They have 3 cars, none of them fit well in the garage, a drive that can fit only 1 on and a front garden that is in fact a grass verge with lamppost on.... A large dream home with 2 cars outside on the road... Whoopee!