Kirstie Allsopp has aired her gripe with the new build housing market.
The Location, Location, Location presenter says detached houses should no longer be constructed in Britain as they are not “environmentally practical”. She also argued there is less sense of community between detached homeowners and branded the gap between houses a total “waste of space”.
And who is she to decide what is, or is not, a waste of space? Well, she certainly is alongside the vacuous programme she fronts. Also, I don’t buy a home for a sense of community. I couldn’t care less about community.
Fuming that Britain’s housing system is “not fit for purpose” and is in urgent need of review, Kirstie shared her views on what she would do if she was in charge. Speaking to the Daily Mail Weekend Magazine, she said: “I would stop the building of detached houses.”
Explaining why, she continued: “They’re not environmentally practical. They don’t make best use of the sites. They have smaller gardens, there’s less community. That gap between the houses is a waste of space. You have to be brave, you have to tell the truth.”
No, you are not telling the truth, you are giving us your (unwanted) opinion. As for her being in charge, well, thank fuck that she isn’t. What is it about thee opinionated tedious, self-righteous slebs who think that the rest of us should be dictated to by them? Well, fuck off. Then fuck off some more and when you’ve done that, fuck off again and keep fucking off until you are out of earshot.
Leave it to the collectivists and they would have us all living in vast blocks of flats. It’s optimum use of space – but is is also an inhuman way of living. Typically built down to a collective cost that diminishes the attraction of living in such places – unless you are able to afford ‘elite’ flats in the better parts of major cities.
And you could bet good money that once we were herded into concrete rabbit hutches there would be plenty of compulsory groups to join to encourage “more community” whether you wanted to or not. Your tenancy might require it.
It’s all about control – theirs over you.
If Kirstie Allsopp lived next door to a violin teacher who worked from home and whose son practiced the piano before going to school, as I used to, she might change her mind. I now live in a blissfully quiet detached house.
Digital pianos are useful in that respect. You can use them with headphones.
If we stopped importing millions of people, and actively encouraging the least productive of the population to breed, there would be no housing problems.
As those two things are never going to happen, we’re in big trouble.
I wonder where she lives? Is it a small flat in an inner city council tower block? I don’t know but I’d bet money that it isn’t.
Every house on my street is detached.
It also is one of the closest knit communities I’ve ever seen.
So at least one of her premises is false.
It’s nice to have a community, but the closer I’m forced to be to someone, the less likely I am to want to spend time with them.
When my now ex-wife had the idea that we should move to this converted luxury apartment building in Surrey, former asylym hospital, proper brick, lead internal walls and all, I was still sceptical. We had a separate top floor wing but with the downstairs couple banged their cupboard doors and the gay couple to the side had their hifi with bass rap rhythm resonating through the structure it was no good.
I made a wow never to have a party wall with anyone. It’s either air around my walls or a bullet to my neighbour’s head and then mine. I love my 1971 bungalow and my neighbours in a northern cul-de-sac with my sauna in the garden, driveway and a garage to tinker in.
Thast defeatist talk. Suicide is not an option. Bullet to the neighbours head then fight it out with Plod and then suicide by Cop. You may get one to take with you.
Why not agree with her (he/she/it/et al?) and force ALL owners of detached properties to have legally enforced extensions built? All paid at their own expense of course, because after all they are rich money grabbing capitalists who can afford it. Said extensions would only be available to the deserving who currently are eligible for social housing.
Of course this means single mothers, the fathers of their kids, both sets of families, the feckless, their brood and the young male economic migrants, together with their large extended families to follow. In fact these multitudes may need more than one extension, which would of course be built on any land attached to the aforementioned property, just to ensure that there is no waste of space.
All to be done in the name of environmental practicality and community cohesion.
Hold on though! I’ve just noticed something. The deserving and their kin need more space than selfish plutocrat property owners. Just give these properties to the deserving and charge the former homeowners for the required extra building costs on the associated spare space. The greedy owners can afford a small flat somewhere else far more suited to their modest needs. All makes much more environmental sense.
The privileged, privately educated, daughter of former Christies chairman, honourable (sic) La Allsop and her multimillionaire property tycoon husband obviously know all about community and being green. Furthermore, her experience as a TV celeb has no doubt given here the insight and deep life experience she needs to lecture the plebs.
I live in an end terraced house with a drive separating me from the next row of houses. I get on with all my neighbours but I get on much better with the neighbours who live the other side of the drive than the neighbours who live the other side of the dividing wall. By her logic it should be the other way round.
Detached houses are what people want, therefore ban, them seems to be another strand of her logic.
Kirstie lives in a large cottage in Devon, it’s miles from everywhere and everyone.
I live in a mid terrace house, I don’t have many problems with noise from neighbours, the layout of the house helps. Although I can hear the neighbour’s new boyfriend practicing darts thoughtout my house. Being in a terrace helps with keeping my heating bills down. Do we have a good community?, not really, rarely speak to neighbours too busy just coming and going to work.
Would I prefer to live in a detached house, well I’d like to live in Kirsties house, perhaps she’ll do a swop.
So, an authoritarian and a a hypocrite, there’s a surprise. Our semi is a former council house of the design and layout that can be seen absolutely everywhere. We get on well with all of our neighbours. Our immediate neighbours aren’t noisy but, in any case, the dividing wall seems to be pretty soundproof. This might be partly down to the presence of fitted cupboards filled with stuff, I don’t know. Anyway, as has been established, she is talking shit and is presuming to tell everyone else how to live. Another moronic celeb with an inflated idea of her own importance.
“Fuming that Britain’s housing system is “not fit for purpose” and is in urgent need of review”
We do not, thankfully, have a “housing system” in this country. We have houses. Because we’re not fucking communists.
Fiends laughed at me when i predicted some 25 years ago that it wouldn’t be too long before ones abode would be subject to assessment by official drones (not the ones that fly), just in case your home is too big for you and would be better suited to and given a needy family, preferably illegal immigrants with multiple kids, all provided free by us silly bastards who stubbornly work all of their lives.
The first move that should have woken the asleep was the bedroom tax on council houses, designed to encourage poor old widows who’s life and memories lie within those 4 walls to move to something more befitting their modern status, ie as nothing more than useless eaters in the eyes of the elites politicians celebs msm, allowing their home to be more suitably bequeathed to someone more ‘deserving’.
Don’t worry about poor old Cameron and the others of his type who infest the remarkably unaltered unenriched Cotswolds, such measures won’t affect their kind or that sanctified area ouf outstanding natural wealth so please don’t lose any sleep wondering how they’ll cope.
kinell these swine could drive a good man to drink