jon357
13 Jun 2025
Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [226]
As far as I know, only one collapsed (the one with the elderly lady, the gas cooker and the cigarette) called Ronan Point. It shocked the nation and the law regarding building safety was changed after that. Fortunately others a brand new building so very few people had moved in.
The ones demolished (actually not that many) were generally due to a concentration of people with difficult social problems being put in the same place and successive Tory governments (they absolutely hate the idea of social housing or anything else their bourgeois chums can't make a profit from) deliberately running down public infrastructure and in the case of housing, legally preventing councils from building or improving it
You can't just build flats, put families with huge problems in and run away to leave them to flounder,
Plus, some that were demolished were either temporary, experimental, or just too modern for people who wanted traditional things. Some of the ones that were knocked down in Glasgow (which has a huge amount of social housing) like the Red Road Flats were demolished because they were on windswept estates, miles from shops or services, and people just didńt like them. High rise work best in built up areas, as infill developments rather than on big estates and for either single people or the elderly. Most are successful; Google Park Hill Flats in Sheffield or the Byker Wall in Newcastle.
it's no surprise many more or less collapsed
As far as I know, only one collapsed (the one with the elderly lady, the gas cooker and the cigarette) called Ronan Point. It shocked the nation and the law regarding building safety was changed after that. Fortunately others a brand new building so very few people had moved in.
The ones demolished (actually not that many) were generally due to a concentration of people with difficult social problems being put in the same place and successive Tory governments (they absolutely hate the idea of social housing or anything else their bourgeois chums can't make a profit from) deliberately running down public infrastructure and in the case of housing, legally preventing councils from building or improving it
You can't just build flats, put families with huge problems in and run away to leave them to flounder,
Plus, some that were demolished were either temporary, experimental, or just too modern for people who wanted traditional things. Some of the ones that were knocked down in Glasgow (which has a huge amount of social housing) like the Red Road Flats were demolished because they were on windswept estates, miles from shops or services, and people just didńt like them. High rise work best in built up areas, as infill developments rather than on big estates and for either single people or the elderly. Most are successful; Google Park Hill Flats in Sheffield or the Byker Wall in Newcastle.
