This is par for the course in trying to develop in many western cities, and it’s almost as though a system has been designed to exclude smaller developers in fa

This is par for the course in trying to develop in many western cities, and it’s almost as though a system has been designed to exclude smaller developers in favour of vast multi-billion-dollar-portfolio landlords. Whether deliberate or not, it’s sick to the core - as an example, in Bath in the UK, I’ve had a several year battle to simply carry out like-for-like repairs on a subterranean vault on my property - it’s going to collapse soon, and it’s directly under a major road - but even using 200 year old techniques with no external disruption they keep denying it. At this point I’m just going to let the arterial road through the city disappear into a hole. Meanwhile, a neighbouring property owned by a large multinational landlord got planning permission to build an external lift on a Georgian property, and the same landlord recently won an application to evict 600 people (owners) from perfectly serviceable housing to build fewer, more expensive houses.