3:48 And another thing. I bet the developers of the B&Q site and indeed of this one, neglect to tell the sops who are thinking of buying here that West and Central London's waste is brought to the long grey roofed building on the south bank of the Thames top left in this image. Here it is dealt with and transferred onto the big yellow barges you see going downriver all the time. Plus there's the public tip there too. Directly opposite on the north bank is a white block of a building. This is the main sewage access to the new Thames tunnel. Don't know if it has vents, but the pumping station just up river by Hammersmith Bridge certainly does. And that's just been surrounded by exactly the same anodyne appartment blocks as these places.
2:22 The thing is, people are bamboozled by the considerate constructor sounding "affordable." I bet you thought that it meant homes for housing association and council tenants. It doesn't! That's Social housing, not Affordable housing and as for affordable, the developer has a big say in how much it can choose to charge for the term Affordable!
I'll never understand the way these kind of projects seem to terrifying people industrial area becomes livable space is great! Whats so scary aaaa its new! Aaa its different! Aaa I might not like it! Aaaa my area is changing! If you want low rise buildings in an area that never changes there's plenty of villages waiting for you ofc you'll never get a house there because no one ever builds any
I'm here because there's nimbys all over threads complaining about this with stuff like THIS IS NOT THE WAY FORWARD and COMPLETELY OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE AREA the area is just basic housing😭 not rlly anything of great historic significance there's already a couple older apartment blocks nearby
Where are we supposed to live if we can't build anything bigger than what exists? People outside of the construction industry really live in a Fantasyland Nobody can afford houses not because of house prices but because of shit salaries a house realistically costs 250k to build not including land values, land values will only increase if large housing blocks aren't built Or people need to be pushed out of London and all of UKs cities need to be economic developed not just london