Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
by gambiting on Monday March 20, 2023 @01:57PM
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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 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.
Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
by novok on Monday March 20, 2023 @02:41PM
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Your looking at the wrong "elites". Look at who is preventing 30 story apartment buildings and then you'll know who actually runs the city.
Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
by dan-robertson on Monday March 20, 2023 @04:05PM
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This 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.
Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
by vanviegen on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:20AM
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I'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.
Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
by CydeWeys on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @06:50PM
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Have 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.
You don't need your neighbors permission to build, everything is basically by-right where you follow well a well defined housing code vs. needing special approval for every little thing. Just get out of the way and stop needing a license to do anything and you will see how quickly the market will sort it out in London. The people of London will decide THEMSELVES, what to demolish or not once given permission to do so, no central planning needed.
But it doesn't because the current system benefits those elites. Any time large amounts of special permission is needed to get anything done, creates the space for corruption in which a bureaucrat can benefit through bribes of one form or another.
What your basically acting like is acting like you can't exercise and eat right to lose weight while you have no mental issues, financial issues, health issues, disability or age issues blocking you from doing the basic things. London has the money, ability and ground where all this is possible. It's a form of learned helplessness in front of a system that has given you no way out.