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[Scoops Novel]

 

[Loud Whispers]

Monty Python was truly the forum user of all time

[MaxTheFox]

There's just no rock bottom for Novelposts huh.

[Scoops Novel]

There's no law against digging locally.

[Loud Whispers]

There are rules of nature though, like digging below aquifer inviting a whole bunch of hell. I swear I walked past a bit of old lake/marsh bank and it was just gone. All the brush where the birds used to nest - gone. Everything had been filled in with dirt. I asked the construction guys what was going on and they said they were going to build several towers there - residential and commercial units.

You can see the high water mark still on the lake banks.
They are building the foundations of their towers well under the water table. Are their masters really so desperate for any unused land for development that they're willing to embark upon a constant multigenerational battle against rain just to keep the first floors from flooding?

[anewaname]

@Loud Whispers

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In that specific case, you should ask local groups that have a vested interest in those wetlands... bird watchers, environmentalists, etc. It could be that they weren't aware of the building activity yet and that local country/town government regulations were bypassed.

If you can get those groups involved and they can use local law to expose the illegal activity, then power is taken away from the people that bypassed those laws and their politicians. Maybe more importantly, the builders and their backers could receive negative PR with the community.

[Loud Whispers]

@Loud Whispers

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In that specific case, you should ask local groups that have a vested interest in those wetlands... bird watchers, environmentalists, etc. It could be that they weren't aware of the building activity yet and that local country/town government regulations were bypassed.

If you can get those groups involved and they can use local law to expose the illegal activity, then power is taken away from the people that bypassed those laws and their politicians. Maybe more importantly, the builders and their backers could receive negative PR with the community.

The local government council approved it and other developments despite objections from locals and parkland ecologists that the long term impacts would be greater than expected; money talks it seems. Hard to stand in the way of a multibillion pound regeneration scheme

[dragdeler]

Well if they can afford meters upon meters of fill, I doubt they don't have a permit. My workplace lies in an industrial zoning build on marshlands. I was told the tale of it's construction, the place where the municipal workers store their equipment is build on top of 10 actual meters of fill. There are like 4-5 water basins dispersed through the zone. Flooding is not an issue.

You forgot to think in the right scale of money that is willingly thrown out the window if it's to help pissnisses. Hell I bet your local governement subsidized this shit, and they will have some terrain left over to sell once the initial investors built their shit.

[Loud Whispers]

The local council sold land that was occupied by council houses or vacant buildings to developers for several tens of millions of pounds, plus a profit share agreement (so the council got 3.91% of the profits from the sales related to the redevelopment sales). So far they haven't approved of sales of actual parkland, but land adjacent to the parkland and in the lakes has already been sold and redeveloped or under the process of redeveloping. In addition they've been given a whole lot of government grant money to redistribute to land developers and... Well... Not only are people worried about them one day going full ham on annihilating the parks, but they're planning on building housing for 18,000 people without any new public transport stations, schools, hospitals or clinics. Hopefully someone will

Also for those who aren't aware council houses are used to house people who need spaces to live in, and was either free or heavily discounted compared to market rates. It was a huge success so naturally our government hated it

[Laterigrade]

me! this thread’s for me! I am incredibly special and different and unique! all hail me!

[Great Order]

me! this thread’s for me! I am incredibly special and different and unique! all hail me!

We're all different and unique.

And when everyone's unique...


Nobody will be.

[King Zultan]

Why don't we take the forum and push it somewhere else?

[Loud Whispers]

Why don't we take the forum and push it somewhere else?

Patrick you're a star

[dragdeler]

Collegue hey come check this out i do one step out of our office, a bird offloads the most ririculuously large shit on me I was hit from the nose to the crotch, the splash area from 20cm inside the building to two meters in front of the door that motherfucker I wanna go home now and burn my clothes, I'd see him land in a nest I would go crush his eggs and smash my own feces into the broken eggshells... Ever seen the stupid face of distress birds make when they come back to an empty nest?! yeah that really hard


different enough?

[Loud Whispers]

In some cultures that's a good omen dragdeler, if it's any consolation