| Topic: | Re:Re:Living in a flat/high rise | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 17/07/22 21:58:00 |
| I think a lot of it is just enabling the developers to make a lot of money to the detriment of the community. It would be great for their to be allotment provision. What has happened to the amenity space - it seems to have shrunk to a balcony and a share in a kids' playground if you are lucky and a small communal garden. Govt pulls the strings on the London Plan which the Mayor has to develop to suit them. It gets sent back to him when there aren't enough dwellings planned. It would definitely be good to see more of the flats in London lived in. They are dark in the evenings. I too know for a fact that some of these new flats are too hot and should have had air conditioning. The costs of running this could have been mitigated by having solar panels on the roof. I fairly recently watched a webinar where a retrofitted block in West Kensington had its lifts powered by solar. Here's something about sharing gardens I came across today: https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/share-your-garden-community-summer-special%ef%bf%bc/ |