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[Closed] Bland housing estates

molgrips · 2019-05-13T16:17:33Z

Kit Malthouse, predicted that many of the boxes being thrown up on the outskirts of towns would soon be “ripped down and bulldozed” as unsuitable. I hope not, only just got fibre broadband on order! The real issue with living on one such estate isn't the houses, either design or quality, it's the amenities. Older suburbs of Cardiff have High Streets with lots of shops both essential and non. They are lovely. Since it's been built more or less concentrically outwards since its heyday in the early 20th century, you can date when they started giving up on subjects. It appears to be around the 1930s when they stopped creating liveable mini-towns and started focusing on private housing. Even the 60s-70s stuff, whilst it has a few clusters of shops and even leisure centres, doesn't have anywhere you'd want to go to get more than a pint of milk and a paper. In our 90s-2010s area, we only have a retail park. I don't know why they can't put in a strip of shops and restaurants and stuff to actually create something more than a dormitory. The new development across the road is allegedly getting a shop, but that's not enough even though they make it sound like a big deal.

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5lab

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As for older housing is so much better, really? Hundreds of thousands of terraces up and down the country, crammed together, no parking, little or no garden, poor access and made from Victorian materials (horse hair plaster) with no insulation or damp proof course.

you're forgetting the architectural wonder-material of bungaroosh.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungaroosh

Posted : 15/05/2019 3:20 pm

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