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Do we really have a City Planning Department? and do they know what's happening in Pipeline??
Chaka
#21 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 2:50:14 PM
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What I wonder is this:
Can the residents come together and sue the city council?
How do tenants on the upper floors deal with water shortages i.e as in having to carry jerrycans say 10 floors?
Will the National Construction Authority have a role to ensure these mistakes are corrected?
a4architect.com
#22 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 5:50:30 PM
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wavidani wrote:
The buildings look okay.The roads and clothes look really bad.What amazes me is that one is ready to spend more than 10 million putting up the buildings but ready to spend zero on infrastructure.If all the landlords in the picture got together and contributed money they could put trenches/ditches on the sides of the road to ferry rainwater and also put murram at the very least or even concrete on the road and their properties would look so much better and maybe fetch more rent.Even if a landlord just did the patch infront of his plot and the next one did his etc coz if they wait for council/govt it will take forever!


@wavindani..good point. The role of Government is to provide leadership for such pooling of resources to take place, mostly through tax payment.
Its actually illegal to construct anything outside the boundaries of your plot. You need a licence for that. The councillors are supposed to be the political bridge to allow for such works to be done but there seems to be a disconnect somewhere. Such slumscrapers cost on average 30 to 40m to construct. The infrastructure below per plot costs less than 1% of the 30m but there is no one to provide the leadership for the local authority byelaws to be changed to allow this.
As Iron Sharpens Iron, So one Man Sharpens Another.
jaykay
#23 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 6:11:14 PM
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@chaka: Residents are content to have "cheap" rents close to their workstations.Landlords/owners love the short payback period.after all residents , tenants think they wont be here for long.They are soon moving on up like the Jeffersons.

Once the populace's mindset changes these places will change.Otherwise,join we will all join the slumlords and make the country dirty.
wavidani
#24 Posted : Saturday, February 02, 2013 7:43:15 AM
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a4architect.com wrote:
wavidani wrote:
The buildings look okay.The roads and clothes look really bad.What amazes me is that one is ready to spend more than 10 million putting up the buildings but ready to spend zero on infrastructure.If all the landlords in the picture got together and contributed money they could put trenches/ditches on the sides of the road to ferry rainwater and also put murram at the very least or even concrete on the road and their properties would look so much better and maybe fetch more rent.Even if a landlord just did the patch infront of his plot and the next one did his etc coz if they wait for council/govt it will take forever!


@wavindani..good point. The role of Government is to provide leadership for such pooling of resources to take place, mostly through tax payment.
Its actually illegal to construct anything outside the boundaries of your plot. You need a licence for that. The councillors are supposed to be the political bridge to allow for such works to be done but there seems to be a disconnect somewhere. Such slumscrapers cost on average 30 to 40m to construct. The infrastructure below per plot costs less than 1% of the 30m but there is no one to provide the leadership for the local authority byelaws to be changed to allow this.

Hmm.. never knew I'd get arrested for trying to improve my plot! something for the incoming Governor to change along with water harvesting prohibition.Once lived in a block of apartments where you couldn't hang your clothes on the railings to dry and looking at the picture you know why they did that!
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