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Damn! :(

Had me in stitches there 😂😂😂

Why? Turn them into housing for the homeless?

Spot on lol

No we need the royal family IDIOT

why?

Yep they are too tall

@@Vincent98987 too tall? What?

Why not?

So just keep the Victorian slums? Tower blocks put many people into a comfortable, warm, private home in post war Britain.

@Dean I believe Cameron said something like that? The tories didn't like them from the off, they were too nice for the working classes. Not living in disease ridden slums and fighting infection after infection, gave them time to have a community, join society and shock horror, maybe they might even discuss self improvement and bettering themselves. Tower blocks became political pawns .

Bullshit

Where

Horn of car is yours 😂😂

Hopefully it didn't get caught in the rubble

They were constructed in the late 1960s/early 70s and haven’t aged well, partly due to cheap construction materials and also through poor maintenance. They were government housing projects, what we in England call council estates. They just became too expensive to manage, plus were very outdated and unsuitable for poor families with young children. The town they used to exist in is not a built up city, but a small costal town, there’s no longer any need to have that high density housing, it all just helped to created this ghetto subculture within the estate.

You need to attain the history of large panel block (LPS) construction in;the UK. Cheap built, cheap materials, thin walls, built parity to a deck of cards except many of the panels aren’t connected, they become infested with beetles, cannot ventilate them as the concrete panel isn’t suited to drilling large holes in and the lack of ventilation leads to condensation, mould, etc. Sometimes the concrete panel would move and rain water would enter, water corrodes any connected concrete panel ties. Numerous problems associated to LPS, brutalist tower blocks.

I'm a bit late to the party but maybe from my own experience living in a similar tower I can shed some light; They were built in the late 50's up to the late 70's. The budget was quite high for their construction as the towers were built to ease the housing shortage, it was also aimed at housing those on a low income and people who live alone. They tower over housing estates our suburbs to you - they are an eyesore. Sadly tower blocks are stereotyped as housing for single mothers, drug abusers and the unemployed. As time has passed the buildings need regular maintenance which is very expensive and often ineffective; during the Winter the entire building is freezing, in the wet season it leaks, mold and damp are very common and often the building violates fire safety laws. It's a very depressing place to live, especially as they are built in very poor areas. Their was a building called "Grenfell" and that was everything I'm describing - to save money and to make the building look nice they put cladding along the exterior which helped a fire spread calling 70+ people. The sooner these buildings come down, the better!

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This is no place to live, communist architecture

They look nothing like the trade centres did-

Because these are now dangerous and un maintained thats why all high flats are coming down

honestly i thought i was alone lmfao

Are you seriously suggesting 9/11 was an inside job

Yes

@@toddhunter3137well they are right ok at one point they where important but now useless and hazardous

Eyesores

@@bigships What did you mean 'Eyesores'?

Too many problems with them. Unsafe. They should never have been built. They should bring them all down. Horrible unsightly things.

@@independentpuppy7520 +They were absolute shitholes (as far as ive heard)

@@independentpuppy7520 I do agree....but don't forget they got built in the first place because after WO2 there was a massive housing shortage and slums. That's why they built so high and cheap and in bad condition. If the councils would have taken notice of that matter in the first place and would have been deciding not to built 30 storeys up, I guess those places wouldn't have to be demolished. No matter how unpopular they are; it were (once) decent houses for the common people

The Democrats want to build these in California.

It means more homeless

True... Hull council are planning on blowing 3 tower blocks