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The planning in London is very poor. All they build are really the buildings that are meant to store value for foreign investors, typical open plan offices or w

The planning in London is very poor. All they build are really the buildings that are meant to store value for foreign investors, typical open plan offices or warehouses. There is nothing build that would be for workshops or light manufacturing. Friend of mine have been trying to find a workshop space in London or vicinity for over a year and there is very little available. It's either very expensive and too large or could be alright, but it doesn't have a bathroom and a sink. How are you supposed to work if you can't even wash your hands or you have to go to another building to do it? It's like everyone thinks here the jobs of future will feature a person with a laptop hot desking. Madness.

spacebanana7 3y ago
> There is nothing build that would be for workshops or light manufacturing. Large capital cities are generally terrible places for manufacturing. Real estate is competitive, transport is congested and labour is expensive. That's why most Chinese products come from tier 3 cities unless there's a really special need for skilled labour or a legacy factory happened to be built 15-20 years ago when the tier 1/2 cities were smaller.
nimbleplum40 3y ago
> All they build are really the buildings that are meant to store value for foreign investors, typical open plan offices or warehouses. Offices and warehouses is not what I expected to follow the first part of that sentence… office and warehouses are pretty productive! And likely a better use of space in a dense urban environment than a manufacturing facility.
- varispeed 3y ago
  The infrastructure is aimed at IT or any "bum on the seat" type of business were only tools that are required to do the work are a laptop and a phone. But, if you, for instance want to do some light manufacturing - like making electronic devices, you are out of luck. In theory, you could do that kind of work in an office, but when estate agent hears about "soldering iron" or "ultrasonic cleaner" they nope out.
ivix 3y ago
Concluding that the planning in London is poor because you can't find manufacturing space is certainly...an opinion.
- varispeed 3y ago
  workshop or light manufacturing.

spacebanana7 3y ago

> There is nothing build that would be for workshops or light manufacturing. Large capital cities are generally terrible places for manufacturing. Real estate is competitive, transport is congested and labour is expensive. That's why most Chinese products come from tier 3 cities unless there's a really special need for skilled labour or a legacy factory happened to be built 15-20 years ago when the tier 1/2 cities were smaller.

nimbleplum40 3y ago

> All they build are really the buildings that are meant to store value for foreign investors, typical open plan offices or warehouses. Offices and warehouses is not what I expected to follow the first part of that sentence… office and warehouses are pretty productive! And likely a better use of space in a dense urban environment than a manufacturing facility.

varispeed 3y ago
The infrastructure is aimed at IT or any "bum on the seat" type of business were only tools that are required to do the work are a laptop and a phone. But, if you, for instance want to do some light manufacturing - like making electronic devices, you are out of luck. In theory, you could do that kind of work in an office, but when estate agent hears about "soldering iron" or "ultrasonic cleaner" they nope out.

ivix 3y ago

Concluding that the planning in London is poor because you can't find manufacturing space is certainly...an opinion.

varispeed 3y ago
workshop or light manufacturing.