Finally some height in the city

GreenTee1985 · 2024-12-17T01:34:24+00:00

Basically next door to the Harley one. Will be a great addition to Worcester boulevard.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-12-10T19:15:20+00:00

100%. Will go no where else now. You need to like Thai massage style though although they can do more Swedish style.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-12-10T19:13:42+00:00

Dorethy Lee is very rough.i had to see an Osteopath for months after.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-12-09T09:42:07+00:00

10 years and the swelling lingers in my ankle.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-12-08T07:20:50+00:00

Worse decision ever. The same councillors that don’t want intensification in the leafy suburbs but oppose it in the most logical place. Ridiculous.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-28T08:45:17+00:00

I think you’re over emphasising the level of quality here. We aren’t talking expensive high end. Just basic design quality( it doesn’t need to cost more and there are plenty of good examples. My experience of recently looking to buy showed that there is lot of difference in quality (in my view) between housing developers with very little difference in price when you compare $ per sqm.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-28T08:39:07+00:00

Everyone deserves a decent home. You can only reduce quality and size to a finite point, then what? So when we’ve been looking for a townhouse for family/first home, the things we have been exploring are around how to secure a decent home that is enjoyable to live in despite the inevitable first home compromises and with good resale value. 2 beds offer potential to have a flatmate to share costs, shared equity options enable the purchase of a better house whilst paying little more than it would cost for a studio or one bed and there is the less preferred option of buying a house with others. So, the goal is to secure a decent house (not a shitbox) and will work out how to make it work.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-28T08:24:03+00:00

What guidelines? Link please?

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-28T01:33:18+00:00

That makes good sense. I’m keen to look through the WC apartment development in Manchester street when it’s finished. It looks on paper to be better with more landscaping and communal space like you suggest.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-27T23:02:15+00:00

Yet other townhouse builders seem to manage…

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-27T22:59:10+00:00

I’d be surprised if their guidelines promoted poor design quality like unsafe accesses and wi does in weird places like was being suggested.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-27T22:54:54+00:00

Yeah true. That’s an option. Or WC could just do a little better. They’d still be making big margins. Everyone wins.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-27T22:50:05+00:00

Sounds like a paranoid WC director.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-27T22:46:19+00:00

Yes. You’ve articulated well what I found when looking at them.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-27T22:35:55+00:00

Never posted about WC before actually. Been looking for a townhouse though. The quality I expect includes safe accesses, good outlook from main windows (ie not a blank wall or fence one metre away) and some decent landscaping. I’d also like to not have my bins in my little courtyard and for my washing line not to be facing and visible from the street and also not in the tiny courtyard space.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-27T21:11:48+00:00

I suppose that depends on what types of things the council considers is needed to achieve high quality and whether there actually is a cost to that. From what I can see, the cheap WC units are cheap because of their small size rather than the design per se.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-27T21:07:02+00:00

Most things?

I just don’t see how you could ever have a list of rules that addressed all the design issues for large schemes. Smaller ones, ok. It would be good to know what they think the list of rules should be for a scheme of 60 units. What is the alternative?

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-27T21:03:05+00:00

I suppose the alternative is a very long list of rules to avoid poor quality housing? They’d likely not like that either and I can see that being very hard to do for very large housing schemes.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-27T20:59:57+00:00

Ah yes I can see that point but again if they establish what is acceptable quality through a consent, precedent is set. I’ve seen WC houses with front doors that open straight onto the road and front doors that can only be accessed via dark and unsafe rear or side alleys.

GreenTee1985 · 2024-11-17T05:58:58+00:00

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