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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by winter_blue on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:32PM (#42774881)
> Reform our planning rules to build the railways, roads, labs and 1.5 million homes we need and develop a new 10-year infrastructure strategy.

They could do this is one fell swoop with a single bill by the Parliament that dissolves these local councils, and land owners the right (and freedom) to build whatever they want on land they own.

Building safety codes would still apply; but zoning permitting could be erased in one fell swoop with a single bill.

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by pikrzyszto on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @02:26AM (#42777419)
zoning is still necessary, you don't want a pig farm (or anything equally stinky) next to people's houses.
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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by mikhailfranco on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @08:25AM (#42779839)
No, individual assessment can fix that.

Just change default NO to default YES, BUT..

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by winter_blue on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @09:30AM (#42780465)
I wouldn’t mind an indoor farm, if they come up with some system to control the smell.

I don’t think there should be any restriction on what people can build.

You could have a rule on bad smell, that applies to equally to everyone, so a farm would be legal, if they can control the smell.

Egg-laying chicken farm in between two multi-family units would be perfectly legal. I see this as a good thing.

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by ChoGGi on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @10:07AM (#42780901)
>Egg-laying chicken farm in between two multi-family units would be perfectly legal. I see this as a good thing.

Noise pollution? Chickens don't have much of a reputation for being quiet.

Also various farming can have quite different hours compared to residential living.

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by m_fayer on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @04:18AM (#42777995)
A younger me would see this as too radical. After seeing some of this up close, now I tend to support this course of action. It would be a shame, but I think we’ve all collectively proven ourselves to be shortsighted and cheap with the great privileges we’ve been afforded.
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