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To understand the problems affecting nearly all new housing development in the UK, just search the name of any major house builder + âdevelopment layoutâ in Google images.
Hereâs a taste of what youâll find.. (1/x)
Hereâs a taste of what youâll find.. (1/x)
Never-ending cul-de-sacs.. (2/x)
Left over land labelled as âpublic open spaceâ (3/x)
Roads that wiggle when they could be straight (4/x)
Dead ends and turning heads (5/x)
âGatewayâ roundabouts (6/x)
Acres of asphalt (7/x)
Roads that could join up to others but donât (8/x)
More space given to housing cars than people (9/x)
Highway loops (10/x)
Towns planned one old field at a time (11/x)
Detached (= aspirational) homes wherever possible.. (12/x)
Affordable housing kept apart from the rest (13/x)
Houses named after villages, dead poets, flowers or trees (though if your house is an affordable one, it usually doesnât get a name at all) (14/x)
This isnât only about the big PLC housebuilders. If you look at the plans of affordable housing providers, SMEs and regional builders, theyâll have many of the same problems, frequently more so (-5/x)
Itâs about the way weâve become accustomed to delivering housing. Most of these layouts are indistinguishable from housing estates built in the 1990s. (16/x)
Many of these problems are about how we prioritise cars vs people in housing developments. This cartoon by @davewalker is a simple overview of how things might be done better. 
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