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Author	meepmeep13
Comment	Well, you won't get a completely subjective answer from me because I used to be (adjacently) involved in planning too (for rural energy projects) so I share the frustration around nimbys/bananas, and I don't believe anyone has an inherent right to the place where they live remaining constant. But from my perspective my view on local developments are that I want to see that the issues associated with increased housing density are dealt with in the proposal. So, for example (as highlighted on other threads here) I would want to know what the plans are for the increased demand for parking, if it's a big development then other things like increased local demand for transport/schools/GP surgery etc. I think that one of the major failings of UK planning (compared to, say, Germany or Sweden) is that residential housing can be built with minimal consideration given to the total impact on local services from increasing the population. I know that this is a massive issue down south with entire housing estates appearing without any additional school spaces made. I'd also want to know about the building quality - a concern I have in Glasgow is that we have many areas of lovely old Victorian tenements which, with appropriate maintenance, will still look lovely in 50 or 100 years' time. However, they are interspersed with new builds that, due to the materials used, will look fine for about 20 years but will age horribly, and there is a clear incentive for developers to cut as many corners in this respect as possible to maximise their profit. If you look at the housing stock built here in the 90s, very little of it is still attractive, and there's a lot of mouldy cladding about. And having been involved in many projects, one of my main issues (which I think many people ignore) is the massive impact of construction. I once lived in a rural area next to a site where someone got permission for a 'grand designs' style project which I supported in principle, only to have the next 4 years of my life frankly ruined by randomly intermittent building noise as they gradually built the thing in an uncoordinated manner - I'd naively just imagined the thing appearing over a matter of weeks. Every day starting not with the birdsong of rural life, but the chuntering diesel of a minidigger. I could go on.
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Created	Fri 8th Nov 2019 3:23pm
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Well, you won't get a completely subjective answer from me because I used to be (adjacently) involved in planning too (for rural energy projects) so I share the frustration around nimbys/bananas, and I don't believe anyone has an inherent right to the place where they live remaining constant.

But from my perspective my view on local developments are that I want to see that the issues associated with increased housing density are dealt with in the proposal. So, for example (as highlighted on other threads here) I would want to know what the plans are for the increased demand for parking, if it's a big development then other things like increased local demand for transport/schools/GP surgery etc. I think that one of the major failings of UK planning (compared to, say, Germany or Sweden) is that residential housing can be built with minimal consideration given to the total impact on local services from increasing the population. I know that this is a massive issue down south with entire housing estates appearing without any additional school spaces made.

I'd also want to know about the building quality - a concern I have in Glasgow is that we have many areas of lovely old Victorian tenements which, with appropriate maintenance, will still look lovely in 50 or 100 years' time. However, they are interspersed with new builds that, due to the materials used, will look fine for about 20 years but will age horribly, and there is a clear incentive for developers to cut as many corners in this respect as possible to maximise their profit. If you look at the housing stock built here in the 90s, very little of it is still attractive, and there's a lot of mouldy cladding about.

And having been involved in many projects, one of my main issues (which I think many people ignore) is the massive impact of construction. I once lived in a rural area next to a site where someone got permission for a 'grand designs' style project which I supported in principle, only to have the next 4 years of my life frankly ruined by randomly intermittent building noise as they gradually built the thing in an uncoordinated manner - I'd naively just imagined the thing appearing over a matter of weeks. Every day starting not with the birdsong of rural life, but the chuntering diesel of a minidigger.

I could go on.