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This article is really trying to put a negative spin on something that could easily have been spun in a positive way. There's nothing clearly wrong with them, j
by lopmotr 6y ago
This article is really trying to put a negative spin on something that could easily have been spun in a positive way. There's nothing clearly wrong with them, just a long list of minor discomforts from the author's perspective. Poor people have to live in posh houses with a garden and not a "once-fashionable" style? They even mention the council missing out on planning fees as a downside! What?! Since when are planning fees supposed to fund the council's other activities besides planning the building the developer is paying for?
- chrisseaton 6y agoThe Guardian’s whole act is middle class people telling working class people that they should think and act more like them. But most of the working class people don’t read the Guardian so it’s just shouting into a bubble.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoWe are talking about things like fire safety and crime. A friend of mine is renovating his place in Scotland and the planning process demanded that a bedroom must have a window to be avaliable as a fire escape and the kitchen must be isolated with a fire door. Now there appear to be apartments without windows at all, with narrow corridors, clogged with bycycles. It sounds like Grenfell Tower N2 coming right up - half the people inside won't make it out alive.