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Mate there is no other group campaigning harder to relax building requirements in London than the elites. There are so many rich people complaining they can't a
by gambiting 4y ago
Mate there is no other group campaigning harder to relax building requirements in London than the elites. There are so many rich people complaining they can't add another conservatory or floor or dig up a basement in their Victorian mansion in London. If you made it easier to build you'd basically hand a giant fat present to the hands of the elite. The idea that the elites keep the status quo by making bureocracy complex in London is almost naive.
- vanviegen 4y agoI'm sure everybody would like the right to build on their property as they see fit. That doesn't mean that they would want to grant their neighbors the same privilege.
- CydeWeys 4y agoHave you heard the expression cutting off your nose to spite your face? That's exactly what you're doing here. Yeah, maybe some elites will get to renovate their houses. Who cares. Large apartment buildings would get built with huge numbers of units to help drive down rent.
- novok 4y agoYour looking at the wrong "elites". Look at who is preventing 30 story apartment buildings and then you'll know who actually runs the city.
- dan-robertson 4y agoThis seems pretty silly to me. 30 story blocks of flats tend to be prevented by the planning permission system (potentially before they are proposed as developers may know what won’t succeed) which is roughly a combination of local government and local residents. There are other things which may make building difficult – historical preservation (eg listed buildings) applies to much of the more central parts of the city, construction can be expensive, etc. Perhaps the real London elites are the clay underneath the city which makes tall buildings more expensive.