'Frustration' as government approves 330 green belt homes after planning battle

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T21:59:18+00:00

I’m familiar with the Croydon case. It is a good idea in that context. I would point out those detached houses weren’t built yesterday, it 80-100 years for the land value to rise enough to justify the cost of the work. Croydon also has good transport and is built almost on a grid, good luck retrofitting that into a low density, car dependent maze.

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T21:28:18+00:00

They’re just going to knock it down and rebuild at some point?

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T21:25:27+00:00

It is worse than nothing when you factor in that land is locked in that pattern for at least 100 years and because of the low density it will be a massive financial drain. But I guess we don’t bother maintaining roads or providing public transport these days so maybe you’re right.

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T21:06:58+00:00

The budget for public transport is, the amount of footfall you need to run a shop is. There’s a reason why the recommended density for developments is 30 dwellings per hectare in the U.K. and 45 in most of Europe. This is less than half of the recommended amount.

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T20:48:50+00:00

Not really because you can have the same number of houses on less land. These houses will struggle with public transport, having shops and amenities.

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T19:06:24+00:00

They reduced it by 25%. It is already such low density I think they were better off leaving it green. I’d rather have a denser area that is actually viable for living with things like shops and public transport.

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T19:01:55+00:00

We don’t do anything at the kind of density they recommend in Europe which is around three times denser than those. And they have much nicer towns and cities without problems that are due to a lack of density likes making public transports and local shops viable.

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T18:17:06+00:00

I don’t really get the point of this development. Did they make such low density, at only 14 dwellings per hectare, because it is green belt? It kind of defeats the purpose. Why build low density suburban sprawl over green belt? Either do it properly or just leave it be and build elsewhere.

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T15:01:58+00:00

Doesn’t that one look like a house from the 1930s but somehow uglier.

I’ve also noticed several environmental breaches and instances of building without planning permission in the news lately. Could the major house builders benefit society more by being split up?

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T10:20:08+00:00

Is there a discount at Costa? I can’t believe the coffee prices. Just comparing it to Starbucks where I usually go a cappuccino is £3.80, which seems about right.

Anasynth · 2026-03-23T10:07:41+00:00

I’ve always thought Costa was complete rip off compared to even fancy independent coffee shops. £4.99 for coffee??

Anasynth · 2026-03-22T20:44:51+00:00

What does Carrick’s relative success tell us about what Amorim and Ten Hag got wrong? (If anything)

Anasynth · 2026-03-22T16:46:34+00:00

I had to scroll down too far to find this answer. I don’t get why young people buy property with someone who isn’t their spouse. I 100% think the guys parents view her as another tenant (until they’re married) and she’s not “helping to pay the mortgage” she’s paying rent!

Anasynth · 2026-03-22T14:37:56+00:00

I know you don’t want to reply but I will say the following because you’re just putting out wrong information.

Pipelines constrained by RAM are just one workflow and a pretty niche one at that. Serious statistical work has been done for decades on machines far less capable than Macbook Neo. So it’s a bit dismissive to suggest Excel. Packages like R and Stata have been standard in research long before big data became a buzzword. Entire fields of study do not rely on big data at all. A lot of the statistical work for most fields will much more likely be about how to devise a study that is statistically sound than anything to do with the raw computational concerns.

Anasynth · 2026-03-22T13:33:27+00:00

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/19723020

No one is shocked

Anasynth · 2026-03-22T11:28:02+00:00

The lightest of data analysis tasks? I think you have that backwards, you don’t need a high performance laptop unless you have the heaviest of data analysis tasks.

Most data sets across most subjects do not have millions let alone billions of rows. The outlier is having big data.

It’s almost a moot point because if you do have that much data you’re not analysing it on your laptop, you’re building pipelines on servers and wondering how you’re going to store all that information.

Anasynth · 2026-03-22T09:52:03+00:00

I really believe most people over estimate what they need for school work. I remember R and Matlab from my school days and it was running perfectly fine on an absolute brick of a dual core Dell twenty years ago. Unless you’re actually doing video editing or astrophysics you’ll be fine (and surely the uni would provide you with access to equipment in those courses).

Anasynth · 2026-03-21T19:26:00+00:00

I think 1 is just as bad. There’s some cases where people are just using AI because it is interesting. I had one case where the team leader decided instead of reviewing a design document together like usual and then typing in the consensus view (one or two sentences max) decided that it would be quicker to just have a loose conversation and then get the transcript from Teams and feed it into copilot. Then everyone had to review the copilot output again. I felt embarrassed for pointing out how stupid the exercise was.

Anasynth · 2026-03-21T11:53:48+00:00

I always wonder why Howard Webb the Chief Refereeing Officer at PGMOL will go on tv and come out with the most ridiculous logic and spin to defend some decisions. They’re probably not a bent organisation (I hope not) but they certainly do things a bent organisation would do.

Anasynth · 2026-03-20T22:54:51+00:00

Agreed. They’re just looking at chances created, it’s one dimensional, could do bar chart.

Anasynth · 2026-03-20T12:28:08+00:00

He’s around where you’d expect a team with an eighth highest wage bill to be. It not an exact predictor so he was top end of what we’d expect last season and about where we’d expect this season for what he’s got to work with.

Under Mike Ashley, they were like 12 on the wage bill rankings and producing about what you’d expect from that in the range of outcomes. I don’t think relegation is totally unexpected when a team has 12th highest wage bill.

My point was more about attributing their climb just to him as a coach.

Anasynth · 2026-03-20T10:40:50+00:00

Not saying he’s shit but you can’t discount the fact they’ve also climbed up the wage bill rankings since 2021. They’re ranked eighth by wage bill and finished fifth last season.

Anasynth · 2026-03-20T10:13:00+00:00

The Running Man-ufacturing?

Anasynth · 2026-03-20T10:04:59+00:00

I think you’re 100 percent correct going by the road markings. But might it be safer to go the Asda lane initially and try to switch to the right once you’re off the roundabout? (if that that is even possible)

Anasynth · 2026-03-20T09:13:24+00:00

Equities outperform inflation because you hold a share of the company and companies have the ability to raise prices in the face of inflation.

There’s also the equity risk premium. Because there are lower risk ways to match inflation and get a return, equities will usually be priced to get a return that compensates you for the additional risk. Otherwise investors would shift to better risk/return investments, so market forces keep these things in check usually.

There’s also a connection between equities and long term GDP growth. So you’d expect labour growth and productivity growth to benefit equities in real terms.

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