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On 05/08/2018 at 08:57, Vince Green said:

Since Britain is one of the most densely populated pieces of ground on the planet the cause of the problem is self evident. We don't have a housing shortage we have a population surplus. That's not contentious, that's a fact

Spot on, without doubt this is probably the biggest issue faced by the human race in the short to medium term, there simply aren't enough resources in the world to support the kind of population growth the world is seeing.

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11 hours ago, old man said:

The art of passing a bung is to keep the bungs under the counter.

I am still of the opinion that high density occupation brings out the worst aspects of behaviour as all fight for dominance irrespective of the actual areas where the density occurs.

One small problem in the London Boroughs is they are building flats everywhere with virtually no parking. I can see their logic, parking spaces take up space that could be more profitably used to cram in a few more flats. They justify it by saying the sort of people they are targeting the flats for are not likely to own cars but that's a blatent cop out. Its going to lead to parking wars and in the flats already occupied that is the very much happening already.

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1 hour ago, Vince Green said:

One small problem in the London Boroughs is they are building flats everywhere with virtually no parking. I can see their logic, parking spaces take up space that could be more profitably used to cram in a few more flats. They justify it by saying the sort of people they are targeting the flats for are not likely to own cars but that's a blatent cop out. Its going to lead to parking wars and in the flats already occupied that is the very much happening already.

Absolutely Vince. Councils have already had plenty of failures along these lines in every city it has been tried yet they still continue, not caring who funds the revenue streams.

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Slightly off topic, but on parking as above posts, Councils round us limit the number of parking spaces that can be included with industrial units, often to well less than the number of people likely to be in a building that size.  This means that people park on the service roads - and with many large artics delivering, causes big problems.  I visited (business trip) Canada a few years ago and one of the nice things was that there was never any problem parking at the hotel, airport, customer's offices or manufacturing plant.

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1 hour ago, JohnfromUK said:

Slightly off topic, but on parking as above posts, Councils round us limit the number of parking spaces that can be included with industrial units, often to well less than the number of people likely to be in a building that size.  This means that people park on the service roads - and with many large artics delivering, causes big problems.  I visited (business trip) Canada a few years ago and one of the nice things was that there was never any problem parking at the hotel, airport, customer's offices or manufacturing plant.

That's like America, restaurants shops etc usually have more parking than they could ever possibly need. But they have so much space out there 

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