Comments on: Westsiiide, Aii http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/2008/11/westsiiide-aii.html Mildly Sarcastic Since 2002 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:47:43 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Westside « Birmingham Eastside http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/2008/11/westsiiide-aii.html/comment-page-1#comment-4180 Westside « Birmingham Eastside Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:47:52 +0000 http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/?p=1442#comment-4180 [...] Felton at Birmingham Central and Jon Bounds at Brum it’s a hit (OK, It’s Not Shit!) has also covered Westside. Posted in General. Tags: Birmingham, [...] [...] Felton at Birmingham Central and Jon Bounds at Brum it’s a hit (OK, It’s Not Shit!) has also covered Westside. Posted in General. Tags: Birmingham, [...]

]]> By: srb http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/2008/11/westsiiide-aii.html/comment-page-1#comment-4178 srb Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:37:44 +0000 http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/?p=1442#comment-4178 The best part is that the development plan seems to be dedicated to creating living spaces that are worse than the supposedly terrible back-to-backs. No green living space? check. Nowhere for children to play? check. Shared walls with neighbours? check. Flimsy and cheap construction? check. The current developments are replacing temporary dead zones in the city with permanent ones where developers get away with leaving their street level concessions empty on purpose by overcharging or creating spaces that are too large. The streets are deserted around most of the new buildings. Cities grow organically. Big Plans are Big Mistakes by Big Politicians done for Big Money by Big Business. It's political Viagra. Then little people get to live in these mistakes or as tends to be the case in Brum - move out to the surrounding areas like Moseley where organic growth has been the case. The best part is that the development plan seems to be dedicated to creating living spaces that are worse than the supposedly terrible back-to-backs. No green living space? check. Nowhere for children to play? check. Shared walls with neighbours? check. Flimsy and cheap construction? check.

The current developments are replacing temporary dead zones in the city with permanent ones where developers get away with leaving their street level concessions empty on purpose by overcharging or creating spaces that are too large. The streets are deserted around most of the new buildings.

Cities grow organically. Big Plans are Big Mistakes by Big Politicians done for Big Money by Big Business. It’s political Viagra. Then little people get to live in these mistakes or as tends to be the case in Brum – move out to the surrounding areas like Moseley where organic growth has been the case.

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