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- A report has found that every UK home should have access to a fruit tree, and that changes should be made to the planning process to help fast track beautiful design.
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Giant ugly housing estates with no public transport, and then people wonder why traffic is horrendous
yeah my mum was told she could have a council house but she would need a car xD
Then they build them, deliberately, with not enough space for cars to force people to use nonexistent public transport.
Chicken or the egg?
I wouldn't use pubic transport. It's filthy and not fit for purpose. If it operated as it does in Japan then come back to me.
Ian Howard but isn’t that the point? Public transport is terrible because the urban landscape is being designed for cars, to only work with cars. Housing estates are too low density to properly work with public transport
Public transport has always been terrible.
The house I grew up in wasn't a in a new housing estate and the bus stop was miles away.
Of course as soon as I could drive I discarded the poor service and inflexibility.
Not enough tree's and shrubs planted in these estates either.
Watch out with that though. Costs of maintenance can surprise residents.
this community looks very new so even if they did plant glass and bring some trees in, it would still take awhile for everything to come together
@Waffle eating craig Pruning/trimming and with larger trees excessive branches (path obstruction and root damage under properties if they are long established on a development). These things can get costly if left out of control and become too difficult for unwary residents to deal with themselves.
Property management grounds contractors won't maintain leasehold areas under the responsibility of the proprietor (home owner's boundaries), I nearly got caught out by this myself. ;-o
Or... Not enough land on that tiny island called the UK...
KINGOSWALD. Trees take up valuable space. Also trees make one hell of a mess come fall.
Build them fast and as cheap as possible for most profit. That's all that matters.
Why
I may just go Israeli settlement mode and just move into another house once someone goes shopping
These houses are near enough threw up its crazy
cr15p wrong.
Given that so many people are struggling to get on the housing ladder, deliberately pissing money up the wall on your personal sense of aesthetics would be positively evil.
And they wonder why depression is skyrocketing it’s just becoming a rat like civilisation
No its because people are waking up to the mess of the world
That was the point of 60's architecture, of brutalism - It was an attempt by the political left to equalise the inhabitants by making them all live in generic housing - It's a form of social engineering - People despise the architecture to this day, but to the left it represents equality - Although the people who come up with these ideas never seem keen to live in their own creations - Choosing instead for themselves traditional architectural styles of the Regency and Victorian period, in leafy green suburbs inhabited by other affluent bourgeois types - I guess they just want us to enjoy all splendour of their beneficent works.
Money causes more problems then this. And especially depression.
Nick X I couldn’t have put it better myself.
Nick X The Tories have been in power for a decade.
These volume housebuilders are a disgrace. Destroying an entire generation with their bland, crap designs. More flair in an Ikea flatpack.
😂
Not the builders fault its the regulators
It blows for sure mate
The tea is old and boring.
Amen
Build them for 80K sell them for 300k
80k? A few bricks with a water pipe wouldn’t even cost 10k
Terrace houses cost £10k-£30k depending on quality. They then sell them for 15 to 50 times the price. But don't blame them.... Blame yourself and others for taking mortgages and paying foe them. If enough people don't, it'll collapse the housing market.
Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemuhwem Osas so what are u saying leave people without homes, with the raise in population people need houses quick. I know they look to uniform but land is sparse and houses are needed for these people.
There are too many rich people living in large houses looking down upon those in smaller houses and it’s not the fault of the people who buy these houses as they are forced into doing so, there is simply no place to go
@@uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug8899 actually blame the banks screwing us with mortgages
@@leighduxbury3864 I blame the system for allowing people to have negative asset. Most of this country lives in debt. Ban mortgages and within a year these houses will be sold at affordable prices.
Well maybe if housing wasnt so expensive nowadays we wouldn't have to live in those cardboard shitboxes.
Marcus Laughton legit!
maybe if we had more houses, houses wouldn’t be as expensive
@@aaronjay4118 Because that's worked so far hasnt it.
That's exactly how this problem started in the first place. Population is increasing exponentially, so housing must increase in relation.
So build homes as quickly and cheaply as possible and retain the pricing model to reap the profits.
Houses are now built in such a way that for the first time in a century or more buying a new home is a TERRIBLE financial move.
They are a depreciating asset and will be worth next to NOTHING in the coming years.
300,000 a year 300,000 immigrants.
The developer is making a good triple profit
It's these greedy unscrupulous land developers that should be held to account trying to squeeze in as many flat pack homes as they can devoid of any character space or greenery.
It's the council's that give them the planning permission,money talks.
Rubbish. The councils are responsible to authorise all development projects. They give them the green light!!
@@JH-gm1ph nonsense if the council give permission it's there fault
Makes sense. Especially when that small island gets full
Doing it in a way that’s of good quality whilst maintaining profit makes houses at prices which people can’t afford
I think the designers forget that people actually have to live in these houses
They are not designed, thats the problem, most are drawn up by technicians to bring down costs for the developers. They are only concerned about ticking the planning boxes and maximising density on the site.
Yeah no-one designs them. Just the developers copy & paste floor plans from previous schemes
Building in this cramped way is having a massive neurological impact on people. Lack of green spaces, too much artificial light...
@Banging Yamum learn to spell borders and we'll talk...
"Pack em in!"
Banging Yamum lmao shows your educated 😂
But other option is there?
Almost like it's purposely engineered that way...
We're getting tiny, rubbish houses but expected to still pay alot.
Dee p well said g!
Don't buy.
@@TruthTortoise81 So be it. Until people aren't buying these house prices aren't going to drop.
Hamster houses👍
Newham houses are poor and ugly
Also they never put shops, doctors and schools alongside it, so it just puts pressure on the local services
300,000 a year 300,000 immigrants.
Royal Critic no point comparing to other places as we are on a different stage of development of course we aren’t gonna build shacks when our building codes and economy is stronger but fairs
It is like somebody just threw some monopoly houses on the floor and called it a day. Such a mess.
They are modern example of slum housing. Poorly built, cramped and over priced.
Very true. We need to overhaul housing it's unsustainable.
New builds have small living rooms, small kitchens but they tend to have plenty of storage and usually several bathrooms. I don't like them much, nearly always built in big estates, the roads and driveways are never big enough for all the cars which end up there.
Let’s be honest, other than the Victorian architecture in the UK, the other houses are ugly, space less, bland and mostly monotonous. Quite disappointing for a country with so much architectural talent.
Georgian and edwardian houses?
Tudor?? Stewart??
Anything relatively modern. Yeah not brill. I think the 1970’s - 1990’s was the worst. Concrete just everywhere.
I'm confused about the Victorian statement. Most of the v houses I've been in long and narrow, with toilets/sinks in odd rooms. Not sure why this type of home is one that continues to be praised?
@@ladiorange really nice exteriors tho and a lot of wood furnishings
I seriously pity anyone who says they look like nice houses. Soulless is a perfect description and uninspiring
They are nice.
Look at india. Or most of Asia especially Asia. Cage rooms, the size of beds.
Anodyne
This whole comment section is a joke. At the end of the day people need to afford them. And they don't look bad by any stretch. More green space yes, but that's about the only real problem!
They are nice compared to most other council estates
They look like nice houses
The housing in this country is a reflection to our livelihoods, our behaviours and how we see the world in our lives. Lacks character, uniqueness, or charisma that makes us want to feel proud about what we have. These houses are so identical that we can easily replace them with no feelings attached to it. Just like love, relationship and marriage (which explains why we, as a society, like to cheat on one another, sleep around and become lustful with no remorse, which is another topic for another day).
It also explains how and why people are depressed, because our environment that we live in doesn't make us feel good about ourselves.
We are not a nice people. Soulless, stingy, conformist, materialistic anti-intellectual, selfish and greedy. Everything we do as a nation is sacrificed on the altar of the economy - which only benefits a handful of the worst of us.
Everything is about status. Families are fragmented, compartmentalised and cold from a cultural perspective. We're not sorry. We remain indifferent to suffering and ignorant of the need to change.
@@jacoboc2244 must explain why American suburbs look a billion times better than the identical box house trash that the uk has. I wish I lived and grew up in America
Gardens are pathetic on new builds and boxed in with fencing usually. The houses themselves are of poor quality generally and small.
@@JH-gm1ph Agreed
There is no way in hell I’m going to buy one of these new build houses. Even more so if it doesn’t at least have a decent sized garden. I don’t live in the city thankfully so most likely I’ll be able to find a better house around where I live in the countryside. I don’t care if it’s far away from one of the cities. I can damn well live with that if it means I get a better quality of life.
I am a firm beleiver of not having lawns or front gardens in urban houses. Lawns that small are a pointless waste of space and it is much better to have a large common area green, tended by the council or management company. Smasl lawns and gardens in the front of houses, especially in damp climates usually turn into bogs. Pointless waste of space and more trouble.
John Dooley true! I live in the countryside but have a small back garden and front garden. Never seen a use for them, and they are just boggy all the time and we never use them...
I know, I fight against this everyday in my actual job!
UK house for £200K: 800 sq feet terraced box, thin walls, noisy neighbours.
American house for $200K: Gigantic 6 bedroom house, 3 garages with beautiful wood cladding exterior and plenty of living space.
This is the 5th richest country in the world, why are our houses so crap?
Cherrie , banks, builders and local authorities all have to get a cut of your money. That’s why houses are so dear. Every third home is profit for the builder.
If a building site manager can save money in the construction, even by cleaning the roads of mud less frequently He gets more bonus. Relentless method of reward and punishment towards managers of housing sites.
Land is expensive
Been saying this for years and this is the age of driverless cars and artificial reality, yet we're building houses that look like this? Just a concrete jungle, no greenery, crammed together and shoddily built. People are much more open to developments if they look better than what they're replacing so there's no wonder why these cut and paste developments cause such rifts.
5 year old me lining up all the little houses in Monopoly:
Welcome to Essex
I love the old traditional buildings. But I can’t be the only one who thinks that these new ones would go somewhere nicer. I think they should be in cities where peaceful neighbourhoods are. Not in London
@igeto12 Care to explain what is racist and bigoted about referring to the real, studied and quantifiable effects of public safety mass immigration in Sweden has had?
@@roboko6618 which peer reviewed studies?
Wouldn't dare buy a house built in the last 10 years
Don’t blame the younger generation when we have a out of date government full of old men.
Exactly, out of date and out of touch
Ok zoomer👌
Kane Prenderville The Victorian’s government was full of old white men and they seemed to manage just fine perhaps even better in the rate of improvement then us today. Theses were some of the most productive people who ever walked the earth who ushered us into the modern era.
@@hybris8383 and look at our modern world, it's a mess
EAR ART . The world could always be seen as a mess, it’s simply that now there are so very many humans messing it up. Too many people is the root cause of most of today’s problems, not old men.
the rest of the world are laughing at how small and ugly UK houses are
Even Sadam is laughing in his grave and for the last part of his life he was living in a cave!
@@th3n3tw0rk6 wtf?
@@th3n3tw0rk6 😂😂
as if main land europe has anything tonbrag about.
When I went to the uk I was surprised at just how ugly many new houses are both inside and out. Especially so with the rich history of all the old styles that are present. Hopefully they come around and change it up a bit.
They are showing examples of what the rich Victorians lived in, not the average pauper who lives in squalid cramped terraced houses.
The title implies that there was a time when housing estates weren't identical and soulless. That's a funny joke.
Der Panda in places like America the houses are unique with lots of green area
@@rising593 they have the space. We do too, but people complain about green space. Cant win either way
Rising Probably because America is obviously much bigger and less densely populated
Housing estates built before the 70s look far better than ones built now
70s houses in rural areas are good because they are the ones with big front gardens and rear gardens. Also they have got a lot of different designs
"Little boxes on the hillside and they're all made out of ticky-tack, little boxes on the hillside and they all look just the same..."
May as well be Soviet Slums
There's a green one and a blue one.
Far better than tents, shacks, hoovervilles and temporary rough sleeping in sleeping bags in a doorway which would be the alternative if architects and NIMBY's had their way.
@@jgdooley2003 nope. Look at the award winning British housing schemes for alternatives, look across Europe. This cheap housing is motivated by greed and laziness.
EVERYONE should be required to watch Roger Scruton's "Why Beauty Matters."
If we cannot see where we came from we are aimless in where we our future lies.
Scott Gallant Exactly.We made that mistake before in postwar Britain. Why can’t we see it again now. I mean, certain these houses are better than the ugly bungalows and council flats that were made back then, but these buildings here are still uniform and soulless.
RIP Roger Scruton
Rather have a Cookie cutter house that be homeless living on the street.
Those... aren't your only choices.
@@Munkenba whar other choices are there
If cookie cutter homes weren't a thing, people would be less opposed to new housing, resulting in more being built, and so lower prices. The 'shortage' is a result of over-burdensome planning regulations which means only the large house builders can afford to build by using identikit housing and economies of scale. The solution in my opinion is devolution of planning laws to local authorities, and a major simplification of planning.
Yes put up and shut up because the alternative is destitution. This is how are government keeps us down.
@@AdamLehodey - Boom! Reading intelligent comments gives me a stiffy
30% of the land where development takes place should be left green.
exactly we need the green belt
Lol.
1. Uk is a small island.
2. When it gets full... What then?
All of the uk is a dot on canada. Or any country really.
3. Enjoy these very nice houses, because it could be worse then slightly smaller, and no green, which no one really cares about.
@@shawnfoogle920 there are 3 million eu citizens we could deport. That will free up space.
@@joebloggs5186 No worries with the way this country is going we will leave on our own.
@@FREESHOTT girl, bye.
In the Netherlands newly build neighbourhoods are actually quite nice, we take into account architecture and green spaces, pedestrians and childrens
The elites here are cirminals, not for the people's
They always forget transport links and shops.
Same things happening in Ireland,soulless legoland houses with a big price tag on them
The U.K has built on 6% of its land, let’s push that up to 10% with houses sold at low prices for people who are unable to buy houses and have been forced to rent for decades, and people who are forced to live at home with there parents because of money.
The old homes are copy and past just like the new ones. These reporters are being hypocritical. I would argue that the new homes look better.
ANGELO finally someone agrees with me. As someone that lives in a small housing estate. They’re not that bad.
Bet they won't be standing in a hundred years like the Victorian houses
@@chrisolagrim3597 neither will the people living in them so who tf cares
@@chrisolagrim3597 I think people back then didnt think those houses would of lasted.
@@Xemehtatep I bet they did because they built them to last.
England is too cramped. It's all boring estates that are soulless, neighbours hardly know each other either. My girlfriend, who's English, is keen on buying here in the future but I can't see why.. Why pay stupid money for a tiny suburban home that's crowded with other houses around it and has no decent sized garden? Give me the fresh air and countryside of Cork any day.
four BEDROOM
plus cottage haus on the isle. me love space
only problem
thousand living on the street..homelessness the reality
these places are INVESTMENT for equity
Thumbnail looked like a game map
*Laughs in city skylines*
America big house= £300,000
Uk Normal houses= £300,000
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Netherlands very tiny appartement= €300,000
@@locturallylocs9097 Toronto's average price for a condo apartment (barely 90 ㎡): €394,002
The architecture that surrounds us is reflective of the society that we live in - or what the government wants us to live in; identical, soulless and non-offensive. Throughout history, towns and cities with beautifully aesthetic architecture are usually societies that are prosperous. We live in the era of hideous modern architecture and bland non offensive, atheistic, humanistic city buildings. Whoever has the money will control what we see. Glad to see people are getting fed up with mass production of soulless housing estates that have no identity; even the people that live within them are somewhat subconsciously affected by the uniformity and herd like mentality of the houses.
we live in a fake sense of wellbeing.
What are some humanist cities?
*Remember?*
*World Economy Crashed in 2008 because of Housing Sector*
Let that sink in!!!
I will all go down soon becuse of immigrantion and foreign buyers like arabs russian and chinese price go up but with bad times all will go dawn
There is no way I'd ever buy a new build, they are small and cramped. And look vile.
They look less cramped then the houses in London.
The new houses have modern build technology though. Old builds have damp, asbestos etc.
@@MS45636 they're not as modern as they should be still, they could be putting in solar panels, charging points for electric cats, they still fit them with gas boilers...
just looking at those houses is depressing, there is hardly any greenery or colour other than brown bricks and gray everywhere else. they just look like the epitome of plain, boring and lifeless
It is indeed. I remembered when I came to UK for the first time to study English, I was disappointed I was expecting more I used to asked myself why all the houses in UK look the same? Sometimes I even didn't know where I was because the houses are literally the same.
@@AA-yc9fj lastering the same comment :/ stay over there petal, not to be that guy but sometimes ya gotta be.
like the people who live in them
In 10 years they'll look even worse once they get a bit weathered.
New houses all look bland, identical, they are dark inside as the windows are small. The rooms are small. Often poorly built with cheap materials, some already require extensive work on, whilst not even 5 years old. There are no amenities near the new estates, such as pubs, shops and cafes. It's all built to tick boxes and make money - rather than thinking of a community and quality of life
Not unique to new houses. Many British towns still have rows upon rows of identical 19th century back to back terraced houses which were very cheaply built, had low light and were considered a extreme health hazard.
Those builders will be back in a year to fix all the issues that turn up once the house settles lol
Warrior Princess That is if they haven’t gone bankrupt to avoid the responsibility, or am I being too cynical?
My sister moved into a new build a year ago and exactly that happened, they had to pay to take up the bathroom and strip down a few walls, insane!
I spent three years living in a crappy new built in the centre of my home town and can say I never felt so depressed in my life! So glad when I moved to the country house in a nearby village.
Judging by the comments, people can't make their mind up about solving the housing crisis. Its either we build cheap affordable housing in cost of making them pretty or we make a lot of pretty houses that no one can afford.
Housing estates and detached houses were built in the 60s to solve the same issue half a century ago and they looked pretty much identical, why are people so bothered that they're trying to do the same now?
Iamthe0c3an kooldude_377 my thoughts exactly people are just looking to complain about anything. It’s like these people have never seen a row of terraced houses in their lives.
The problem I have is when they did this in the 60s they had gardens, trees, public transport, and usually shopping areas nearby to reduce car usage. These estates are depressing and will lead to traffic pileups.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel sounds a lot like the issues North America is facing with our neighborhoods. Too many cars, not enough homes and too expensive as well.
@@ml-rl1loOr visited Preston. I'm sure a visit to that dump will dismantle their dellusions around Victorian builds 🤣
I've been looking at new houses and they're all the same, tiny windows with no natural light, tiny gardens, no soul in the estate and blatantly built as fast and similar as possible to maximise profit. All of this leads to poor quality of life and depression.
I remembered when I came to UK for the first time to study English, I was disappointed I was expecting more. I used to asked myself why all the houses in UK look the same? Sometimes I even didn't know where I was because the houses are literally the same.
I remembered when I came to UK for the first time to study English, I was disappointed I was expecting more I used to asked myself why all the houses in UK look the same? Sometimes I even didn't know where I was because the houses are literally the same and I was like maybe is their culture and they like this way.
@@AA-yc9fj nobody likes them but there isn't much available right now
What they forgot to mention is the cost and skill that went into those beautiful, historic homes.
They were built when Britain was still an Empire and nations around the world were exploited by the British slavers; so there was an abundance of wealth to fund these architectural masterpieces.
The population was also smaller and most of those houses were built by rich individuals and families. Furthermore, plenty of historic houses are gone; houses of lesser quality didn't survive the test of time, so it is delusional to think all historic homes looked like the ones that survive today.
Someone who comprehends survival bias? It can’t be
Not exactly, plenty of awful Victorian tenements/terraces in Preston near where I live. Awful place, look it up.
I currently live on a new housing estate. I've been living there since I was 12 and at 20 years old now I am itching to get out. Absolutely 0 character to the houses. I step outside and just get a sinking depressed feeling, nothing brings me any joy about the place. Even any greenery the houses once came with has been taken away by the people who live there becuase they can't be bothered for the maintenance. It's a real tragic thought to think this is the future of housing.
These new builds are still a dramatic improvement on the housing built in the 60's and 70's generally we must remember that the Georgian style housing we marvel at was not the housing of the average person, these were for the rich, and i would imagine the housing we built for the rich today such as the one showcased in the video will also be admired in years to come..
I agree, there has always been affordable housing that doesn’t compare to more expensive housing, it’s just been knocked down and these new houses just replace the bad ones. They’re better quality anyway, a lot better than if post war apartment complexes were still standing
Brilliant point. Nobody mentioned back to back housing or slums that were prevalent in the past, no one's proud of those things.
I completely disagree, I live in a house from the 60s and near houses from the 70s, and our estates are terraced which saves space and makes it more efficient for heating, and has public transport which these estates lack.
Yeah, there is a bias towards thinking that everything from the past was great but in reality, only the things that didn't suck could withstand the test of time. More people should understand this.
Couldn't agree more with this. I remember reading somewhere that houses are no longer thought as homes during the build for people to live their best lives, but just as an asset for the landlords to make money off. Copy and Paste homes are obviously the most effective way to make profit as with the standardized mass manufacturing of any product!
"800 Million people living in the ruin of the Old World..." Judge Dredd. (2012)
I got in a drunken rant to an architect on new years eve who first asked me if I was also an architect, then asked me to calm down, then told me he agreed with me and said they are only designed to stand 30 years, a lot of young buyers now have a 35 year mortgage! Too many youngens (my own age) have told me that I should have just bought a new build when I was saying my ex-council house didn't have radiators in every room, needed a cooker and has extremely flammable polystyrene tiles on the ceiling. It'll take a lot of work, but I paid half as much for a house twice the size which will still be standing when theirs come down 💁🏼♀️ too few people care for Quality these days, it's all about "style"
Wish we still built buildings to look like they did in the 1800s
My house was built after WW11. It was also constructed in haste, to be filled with the homecoming troops, returning from war. There they stood, little boxes, identical in design. People moved in, and first, this one built a porch in the front, that one put a porch in the back, then a side porch appeared, then a covered sun room, then an addition to the kitchen, then a garage, then a double garage. Trees were added, and bushes, and flower gardens, a bird bath, a rose trellis, wisteria. Now, there are not 2 identical houses in the neighborhood. Actually, it is no different from the row housing in the US, a form of housing that started in cities, but soon spread to the countryside, just don't get one with a homeowner's agreement.
It’s true. I was the war
What a pointless report.... the old lovely houses cost millions! Dont get started on london prices this to me seems the people who have homes (most likely left to them) want to have a go at people who want a home... I'm 32 live outside london and cant save to afford a home around here as I have to pay rent Bill's and taxes absolute joke leave the poor alone! Stuiped report
become a refugee and u get everything for free plus business loans 🤔. your problem is that youre a briton living in britain instead of an oppressed minority that gets shovered in money.
Why is this a stupid report? If houses are going to be built, at least make them a decent size (that is not small). Have a garden, driveway, big living room, dining room etc. A place to put the washing machine so it doesn't end up in the garage etc. Oh and some multiple bedrooms so people can start a family.
not a stupid report - which is a surprise coming from Sky!
they all cut corners too.. we had no insulation in our walls, pure plaster boards.. only found out when my little brothers fell through it haha
I know, to many deniers in here!
@@th3n3tw0rk6 Some people only see one side of life is a shame
That's fucked I'm glad I'm living in a Victorian house
victorian houses all look the same...whats your point?
It’s all about traditionalism. Americans wouldn’t like it if we came onto their soil and built stable, fire resistant brick houses
Wish I could buy one though
Same. Everyone complaining. Theres alot lot lot worse
I'd buy 100, just for the satisfaction of razing them to the ground.
i got 200k saved living at home and i ain't using it on a future slum (NEW BUILDS CLONES)
Your better off saving for an older home which cost less, a new build is like buying a new car, much more expensive.
People seem to want it all. They can't build the houses fast enough yet these people want them to be of the top quality and relatively cheap at the same time.
The British population is declining, so why do we need to build houses at all? Really gets that noggin joggin...
Just ya know. Stop the flood of migrants. Charity starts at home. Worry about housing our own before worrying about some stranger's countries problems. We are not in a position to take on all of the world's problems, some people from other countries will have to stop running from their problems and face them and fix them
@@roboko6618 Even though immigrants do jobs that British people refuse to do...
The UK has the ugliest housing stock. What makes it even worse is that the houses are nearly always terraced or semi-terraced. No privacy. The streets are narrow. What's more, there is this ugly fascination with old red brick. Even the new housing stock are a take on that old red brick design.
Britain is a small country, we already have twice the population density of France, if the population keeps rising this is inevitable, cramming more people into small spaces
Not a surprise I have seen a lot of new builds where building looks soul less and looks more like just built then with love and no character. Even new developments seen entire woodlands ripped up and destroyed with the wild life killed off with mass graves. Seems to be popular to build new homes on top of each other with little space.
The walls between rooms are made of plywood. When I pee in the toilet upstairs (Yes, the door is closed) my girlfriend can hear it down in the living room. there is no soundproof in the wall as the wall hasn't got brick or any solid structure in it the audio is easily heard through the whole house.
I could hear the people next door go to wee and I could hear them stir their Drinks in the Morning,we never Smoked but sometimes our Living room smelled of Smoke
3 people I know have bought new build and a year or two later are still in dispute with the developers over poor quality work .
The thing is the estates of the 60’s and 70’s were great , shops , bus routes , play areas , nearby schools and even a pub 👍🏻 but they were left to rot 👎🏻 what they are being replaced with do not have the amenities those estates had , they are putting huge clumps of houses on the outskirts of cities just to meet numbers !! Whether it is good housing with good public transport seems to be neither here nor there !!
People will complain about everything .....ask someone without a home how great they look !
Alex Miller
These homes aren't even affordable, what's the point in building soulless noddy boxes if the price is still prohibitive!
Like the people that live in them "soulless and empty"
Aren’t Victorian houses copy and paste houses as well? Especially to deal with the rising population in the cities due to the industrial revolution.
There was just as much soul there compared to now except now we have better, efficient houses that look nicer and modern.
I was in northern England in the late 80s and the estate I stayed on had all identical houses. I had to look at each number when I walked up the street as I couldn’t tell the houses apart - rows and rows of identical looking houses on a very big estate.
I live in an estate of mostly identical housing built fast in the 60s, but the houses have gardens and trees and they’re built around local shopping parades and public transport, and if we allowed each owner to paint their house different colours it would add a lot of uniqueness. It’s much better than this. Housing should not be built like this, and identical housing is not too serious of an issue.
I called them conveyor belt homes because they look like they were produced in a factory they're all identical there's nothing that separates them. There's nothing that makes them stand out.
conveyor belt homes for conveyor belt type of people
its just disgusting to have same exact house
every house should be different a unique in its own wau
We need a Levitown revolution in the UK honestly
More suburbs at as reasonable a price as possible
Uniformity isn’t terrible but small box homes with fake little lawns are god awful
What a surprise its not like every suburb in america looks exactly the same. Someone even wrote a book about it
“ Paper Towns”
what a shame, what's happening to UK : (
Migration
As a person who absolutely loves those depressing Eastern European appartment buildings, this is soulless to me too.
yeah not even being good at being souless its that bad not even amusingly bad.
The UK and Western Europe have the ugliest suburbs and houses. Even ghetto suburbs in poorer American cities look nicer. The main reasons for this is that UK preferred terraced housing and narrow streets over detached bungalow type homes when they developed their suburbs.
I live in a housing estate built in 1999 and the houses r big, big front and back garden, driveways and bus transportation. About 5 mins away there is new houses with tiny gardens, no garages, smaller attached houses and no transportation
This is what happens when mass immigration occurs. More demand for houses and property prices drastically rise.
Immigration. Conservatives don’t mind getting replaced as long as it’s legally.
@@MichaelJ44 As long as they are skilled, qualified, speak our language and respect our culture they will always be welcome... Just not in unsustainable numbers.
Drakonite
As long as they’re white and don’t cause any trouble I don’t care.
Buckle up, buttercup...this is just the start.
They can't build them fast enough yet we apparently need more people... maybe more housing first?
Mass produced houses in the 60s and 70s were the same. The only difference now is, they squeeze the front and back gardens down to nothing and use that extra land to build another house. As for the cost of houses now, the biggest factor is land cost and profit
Ask people in poverty if they are unhappy with these houses
Believe it or not but working and even middle class people and families stay in these box houses, trying (and often failing), to fit their oversize expensive saloon car and SUV's in the driveways.
These vehicles are roughly the same length as a family living room.
How charming, tarmac to your door step.
Shame people won’t be able to afford them till they are 30
It’s so true tho the modern houses don’t even last long they stink after a couple of months . Plus they’re not designed by an architect
That subdivision looks like copy and paste garbage! How does the municipality even allow that?
Problem with new housing estates is the new rule to mix affordable with private, sad truth is some in the affordable homes don’t look after the homes or look after the outside which is such as shame for the people in the other affordable and private homes who do care and have respect.
Am so discouraged seeing this crap of architecture in Britain. More so residential homes.
We grew up being taught how English people are stylish and classy and that inspired me to pursue a course in architecture.
Now the great nation we once looked up to is building these concrete jungle, soulless as they are calling it in the 21st century?? What has become of the British society? What has become of the once cradle of architecture? What has become of the British standards being applied in Britain itself that taught other societies in the world to set standards?
Something needs to be done by the relevant building authorities to enhance human dwelling.
Let Britain cease to focus on Russian and its affairs and focus into its affairs that are really wanting.
I still believe in the British iconic architecture and the role it has played in human civilisations for centuries.
My post is not to reflect hate, but admiration of that sustainable, enduring, elegant, stylish and classy British style of centuries gone by.
Why would Brits inspire others and neglect their own? It's true that others have risen, like China, India and South America countries, but rising of other societies is not synonymous to falling of British society.
It might seem bad, but these homes are cheap.
If these homes looked better, they’d be more expensive, so poor people couldn’t afford them.
As a working class person who’s going to have to go into the housing market thousands in debt I’m hoping that houses this cheap are available. I think the modernistic designs could be replaced with something older-looking, but it all depends on whether I could still afford them.
I’ve always said new houses are too alike, too small, windows are too small, gardens are too small. Horrid. Digging up the planet is going to be disastrous. Glad to see this is being discussed though.
Windows are small to keep in the heat. The large windows in houses of the oil-rich 1970's were a disaster when it came to space heating.
John Dooley believe me, they don’t make them small for virtuous reasons.....it’s cheaper to build. But nice thought!
No one will look back at these with fond nostalgia, these estates are the Suburban equivalent of the post war tower blocks of london
No driveways or off road parking with no gardens, two bedrooms, tiny roads, obnoxiously large paths, poorly built, cheap material's, no garages. We need houses with 4 bedrooms big gardens & at least room for 4 cars & full size double lane roads with regular paths.
Its clear just by looking at the old houses that they too started out as "Cookie cutter" houses. They all look more or less the same. Over the centuries changes must have been made. This new houses look different, and not all look the same in the footage shown. Quite frankly it sounds like a bunch of nonsense.
Old style properties were often built as council buildings or townhouse blocks with attractive architecture. Even working class buildings had at least some thought put into it, e.g. a square with greenery or park nearby. Wealthy people had more than one house. These are middle class houses with the look of working class, "bland" houses like council estates.
@@MrDOB1000 and these modern houses have had no thought put into them? I just think this article and people who think this way are over stating their case.
@@MrDOB1000 Those back to back rowhomes from the 19th century were pretty atrocious. I think people romanticize them because there's less of them.
Yes. This. The estate I grew up was built 40 years ago and had 200 initially identical looking Semi-Ds (and the odd Detached house where they had the room to build one). All painted white on the second storey with the same orange brickwork on the first, the same doors and windows painted the same colour, the same basic front lawn etc. but over the years nearly everyone there has replaced their windows and doors and grew out their gardens, extended, built garden walls etc. Some have painted their houses a different colour. So these days it looks fairly diverse.
There’s not a shortage of houses there just so bloody expensive
I appreciate the thought and agree with many of the symptomatic issues addressed here, however, in cities like Sheffield, the legitimately cut and pasted terraced houses of limestone and brick have become, with time, a beauty of their own. These aren’t perfect, but I think the generally decent proportions and with a bit of human touch will age much better than we think.
Also, allowing the planted trees and shrubs to grow, will make the spaces feel older and more alive.
Just wait friends.
Tudor and Edwardian town house’s cannot be compared to these estates. A fair comparison, of our time, is one of the many modern build’s within cities.
No proper gardens, no bushes nor trees. No driveways. And the houses are so close together. Sad.
They don’t just appear. They take time to grow
@@belltond1527 I am aware, I'm a home owner myself. But the lack of space between the lots and the tiny back gardens, that is what I meant :)
Why we gotta pay rent to be born on Earth?
I always pictured London neighborhoods as being identical to Mr Roger's little neighborhood
Because they are. Why are people so pissed?
I live in Wythenshawe south manchester and these new flat packs are getting thrown up on any spare bit of field left in the area.