| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:GW quarter residents are parking elsewhere | |
| Posted by: | Michael Brandt | |
| Date/Time: | 18/08/10 00:26:00 |
| There has to be something wrong somewhere Adam. This country is light years behind most of Northern Europe when it comes to environmental, efficiency and build quality for housing.The British solution poky little windows to retain heat but rooms so dark the lights have to be on during summer days! We are third world when it comes to new house building! And yet we still lead the world when it comes to major construction/engineering projects here and abroad. Someone thought it a great idea to build GWQ next to one of the most busy and polluted roads in Britain and yet same body decides to restrict vehicle space and thus restrict the freedoms of flat dwellers against those of other types of resident. That does not bode well for a community and thus we now have a development with a high number of buy to let landlords (like several other local developments) because in reality no-one can envisage living and growing there long term. Residents knew this and said so. They were dismissed as amateurs who know nothing. They were right so far on every count. So who is going to change this? The 1992 Rio summit was a set of recommendations not a legally binding edict. It suggests ways car use might be reduced. However GWQ is marketed not by the 65 or H91 bus services but the convenience of access to the A4, M4, M40, M3, A406 the West and Central London. Currently, most Boroughs insist that any private development for a singular dwelling accomodate space for 2 cars at the expense of the builder/developer/client but this seems to not exist for big developers like the ones you work for. When it comes to people and residents they generally have two arms, two legs and may use a car. They may also need to make a living. Given that many employers rate a full driving licence above that of a 2.1 degree we have a long way to get to the Rio specification. The lobbyists are there, and those good at it are dark operators seldom seen. I've been in on it first hand and it is clandestine stuff. You are also right, residents groups do lobby and far more publicly, but it is rare that they get taken seriously, and rare that they win. Common sense is becoming a rarity. Taking common sense to court is also costly, developers have a fund for court cases but residents and individuals don't. Developers know that few will last more than a few appeals and they may only concede to what they really wanted in the first place. 1st law of business, aim high, never sell low and the middle is your real high. |