High rise buildings like those in Scunthorpe should be demolished, report suggests
HIGH-rise buildings such as those in Scunthorpe should be bulldozed and replaced with terraced homes, a think-tank report has argued.
About 140,000 households with children live on the second floor or above in England, despite evidence that multi-storey flats attract higher crime rates and social breakdown, said the paper published by the centre-right Policy Exchange.
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Crosby Flats in Scunthorpe
Create Streets, an organisation encouraging the redevelopment of estates, says that demolishing high rise social housing blocks and replacing them with real streets made up of low rise flats and terraced housing would improve the lives of thousands of people who suffer from living in multi-storey housing.
Studies have shown that residents of high-rise blocks or large estates suffer from more stress, mental health difficulties, neurosis and marriage breakdowns.
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Children living in high rise accommodation suffer from increased hyperactivity, hostility and juvenile delinquency even when you adjust for social economic status. Despite the fact social tenants make up only 21 per cent of families with children, they make up 79 per cent of those families living on the fifth floor of a building or above.
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by IT_MAN
Friday, January 25 2013, 7:34PM
“Nice to see return of town house/terrace returning, should be able to build much cheaper as onlt ends have external gable wall, should be better insulated and if bigger house needed could always knock 2 together. I would rather have rear yard with car parking space or even room to errect a garage as blocks of garages allways seem to attract the wrong people. Don't forget to make rear street wide enough to get bin waggon down, Don't need front street just a pedestrian street, safer for kids.”
by EducatedSage
Friday, January 25 2013, 6:02PM
“Newly married in 1969, my wife and I were granted the tenancy of a two bedroom flat at the top of one of the tower blocks on the Orchard Park Estate, Hull.
We thought that "all our birthdays had come at once" - underfloor heating, double glazing, separate bathroom and toilet, walk-in storage room, fitted kitchen, landing garbage shute, lift, storage shed at the bottom of the block and a garage across the road, if desired topped off with and excellent views across the city and surrounding countryside.
Such blocks were not however, really ideal for families with children and senior citizens.
The reasons for their being built nationwide were those of (a) an ever lengthening housing queue (b) the rising cost and declining availability of suitable land for housing (c) central government's implacable opposition to providing private landlords with Financial assistance to ensure the improvement of the existing terraced housing stock.”
by Stixxx
Friday, January 25 2013, 3:48PM
“This rag has more repeats than the BBC”
by asinal
Friday, January 25 2013, 1:01PM
“Nice one jackcj lol”
by jackcj
Friday, January 25 2013, 12:34PM
“In a way, they are a row of terrace house. Just stood on end!!!”
by Mozart
Friday, January 25 2013, 12:19PM
“by TrueLogicThursday, January 24 2013, 10:43PM
"Anyone reading these comments from outside of Scunthorpe will have had there suspicions confirmed that the town is full of total idiots with nothing better to do with their time.
I quite agree mate and anyone leaving negative feedback must be aware of the utterly non devastating impact it has on our lives. Anyone leaving negative feedback today is confirming that they are a "rat-dropping"!!!”
by ArthurLast
Friday, January 25 2013, 10:05AM
“Utter nonsense.
This "reporter" has clearly never spent any time in either of Scunthorpe's "high rise" blocks of flats, what an utterly demeaning report.”
by TrueLogic
Thursday, January 24 2013, 10:43PM
“Anyone reading these comments from outside of Scunthorpe will have had there suspicions confirmed that the town is full of total idiots with nothing better to do with their time.
Anyone got anything sensible to say in reply or is there just going to be the usual sniping?”
by unheardvoice
Thursday, January 24 2013, 10:26PM
“im sure people have the same view about narrow minded / i mean class orientated people like you ... do you read the times haha
im pretty sure the crime rate at these flats is low too??”
by Mozart
Thursday, January 24 2013, 9:13PM
“Knock them down and STILL leave the flatulant residents inside!”