Published on 12, July, 2020
Clearly the UK needs a lot more housing as the prices are unaffordable for most people. I would build lots of high rise apartments but with an aim of making them a lot more liveable than ones that were built in the past.
I would have them have landscaped gardens and almost zero tolerance for vandalism or urinating in the elevators.
They could have triple glazing installed, solar panels on the roof, something on the roof collecting rainwater to use for water.
I would have them painted a cheerful colour, no gray. Maybe a nice pattern.
The design would be practical but not ugly. Not just a tall box like some of them are. Some attractive features like how Victorian buildings had, little features to "dress up" the building, so to speak.
Realistically I think soon we are going to see lots of new housing estates of identical houses with tiny gardens spiralling out in ugly out of nowhere suburbia.
i dunno id think private gardens for the residents on the roof, like a chill out roof garden area.but yeah towns and cities need to do high rise flats more... we dont have enough land to spam single houses over a large area. we are a tiny island with not enough farms to support our population as it is. so we need more efficient high rise buildings.
You really, really do not want to live in a high rise flat. It takes just a deranged or chavy resident to make life hell for everyone, and evicting a resident is difficult. High rises are also noisy, crowded and expensive to live in: an high rise needs an elevator, A/C and a good centralized heating, otherwise it will be unliveable. Plumbing and electrical work is also way more expensive. Believe me, you do not want to live in there.