Have an idea - tell people about it - publish it on a blog, send out dozens of emails.
Nice people respond, 'Oh what a good idea, can I join in?'
Others want real information (from me?). How much will this be? If we can buy it as agricultural land it could be really cheap - if for housing - really expensive. How much land? As much as can be saved from the national housebuilders - those companies that have one set of plans (so that land-use can be maximised) that they use to build energy-greedy (but cheap to build) housing.
If this country had any sense it would insist that all new housing was both energy- efficient and able to create their own energy (by making the wife pedal a uni-cycle while doing the ironing and shouting at the kids).
It doesn't do that - it allows these builders to get away with what is (in effect) murder. By building such awful houses they create tomorrow's slums, increasing social stress, and increase the carbon load upon the world.
The world can take all this - no problem. It's people who will have the trouble.
To get back to the original bit about responses. Our beloved leaders have just ignored me. So, what's new?
Nice people respond, 'Oh what a good idea, can I join in?'
Others want real information (from me?). How much will this be? If we can buy it as agricultural land it could be really cheap - if for housing - really expensive. How much land? As much as can be saved from the national housebuilders - those companies that have one set of plans (so that land-use can be maximised) that they use to build energy-greedy (but cheap to build) housing.
If this country had any sense it would insist that all new housing was both energy- efficient and able to create their own energy (by making the wife pedal a uni-cycle while doing the ironing and shouting at the kids).
It doesn't do that - it allows these builders to get away with what is (in effect) murder. By building such awful houses they create tomorrow's slums, increasing social stress, and increase the carbon load upon the world.
The world can take all this - no problem. It's people who will have the trouble.
To get back to the original bit about responses. Our beloved leaders have just ignored me. So, what's new?
1 comment:
You wonder the Council have just announced planning permission to build 2,700 houses - "tomorrow's slums" - on the land between Felixstowe and Ipswich? Old boy, we need slums - for the lower class. The upper class (income related, mind you...) will reside in the new Bloor Homes luxury flats on the South Front in Felixstowe. Got it?
Cheers!
ps try singing like in your young days 'all you need is love!' and leave the politics to the... other class.
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