Good morning. The sky has turned back to grey again.
This picture of a new build housing estate popped up on my screen. Is it AI? I don't know but I suspect it is real. The story is about how our hedgehog numbers are in decline. They can no longer move about freely between gardens. Apparently they make the concrete boards at the bottom with holes in, so they can incorporate Hedgehog Highways in their layout. So that helps I suppose.
But my first impression of this picture is, what kind of a hell hole is this for humans to live in. I can't imagine living in a box like this. I bet the walls are paper thin as well, just like the fencing around the miniscule patches of grass masquerading as a garden. There will be many more of these boxes in the planning pipeline, and some people will be glad of a place like this to live in. If that's what they want so be it.
My building skills are minimal, but at least this is still standing. Solid as a rock and dry inside, after 11 years.
Which is it for you? A tiny box crammed in a small plot, or lots of free space to roam?
Thanks for popping in. Toodle pip. ilona
Good morning ilona. ☕️ Living like Battery hens .those new occupants looks horrible. Ilona. if it was affordable housing for young people that'll be fine to get on the property ladder 🪜 🙄..
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Many of us have no choice as we are poor and disabled. Look at the new flats in Russia, plain and simple, cheep to rent and a warm place to call your own,... we don't all have the background to have a choice.
DeleteMy first house was a two bed old terraced cottage in the middle of a row of six on the edge of the town. No front garden, but a long back garden. Easy access to the countryside. This new housing might be a stepping stone for young people who want to get on the housing ladder.
DeleteI wouldn't live in one of those boxes if you paid me mega bucks. We have always lived in older properties, with character, and my current property is no exception. I love it here. We did extensive restoration on our house in Carmarthenshire and would have been up for a new build. I'll check out the video later - looks like the cob buildings we have in the West Country here.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't/wouldn't either. I would rather have a mobile home in a field. That might be an option for downsizing, but I believe there are a lot of restrictions, and extras to pay for. So it wouldn't be any cheaper than my mortgage free brick built semi.
DeleteI looked into mobile houses/mobile park homes etc, but there are so many 'restrictions' and charges, you are at the mercy of the park owner. So I have to change my mind having read all the scare stories (I'm sure some of them must be true!),... it was just that I didn't want to have a garden to manitain any more now I'm older.... motorhome and narrowboats are more work than I have now with a modest house and garden,... what to do !!!!,.... am now thinking of selling and going abroad and renting in a cheep country,... but apparently it's not as easy for Brits to perminantely move abroard as it appears for others to come here ;-) Jessica .
DeleteHello ! Bovey Belle if it helps this housing crisis. Better than homelessness.
DeleteBest Wishes Levi
Give me plenty of free space. I don’t want to hear neighbors talking or them hear me. 😂.
ReplyDeleteI've been lucky with neighbours. The house I am in now, I have two single men who live in their houses either side of me. They are quiet, don't have parties. The people opposite, and a bit further along are families. They are good neighbours. I think that it's important to consider who your closest neighbours are going to be when you choose where you want to live.
DeleteA direct consequence of trying to accommodate an extra 15 million population over the past two decades - no space for sensible sized houses and gardens.
ReplyDeleteSome of the older housing in our neck of the woods is seeing speculative developers buying properties with decent size gardens and shoe horning in additional rabbit hutches, and I gather that this government plans to make this easier too.
Yes, we are getting that in our tiny Norman town in the south. Lovely big gardens, once orchards, ponds and loads of hedges and huge trees all now chopped down and enormous open plan houses with 'fake' lawns being build with huge parking areas, no bushes,plants,flowers,grass,.. no hedgehogs, no field mice, no birds (nowhere to perch). We have wire fencing 1/2 foot from the ground for the hedghogs, have so for 30 years,.... used to have loads,.. nothing for the past 5-6 years since they build a small new build estate behind, all fenced in. Not a tree in sight for 15 new houses. But change happens I guess,... perhaps we should move.
DeleteThank you Will and Anon for your thoughts on this. It all sounds quite depressing. There are a lot of areas in the UK that I would definitely not move to. There are plenty of no go areas that have been taken over.
DeleteI'm sure the houses are good to start off on the housing ladder, but they remind me of the song about little houses.....all the same!
ReplyDeleteThe little boxes would be suitable as starter homes, and may suit single people who are out at work all day. But long term they would drive me nuts.
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