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[justineo]

I live in a really nice suburb of Birmingham UK (my house is the little run-down shack on the outskirts) with some lovely roads of 1920 and1930s houses which one by one are being pulled down to build apartment blocks of secluded retirement housing or executive flats or whatever they call them.  There have been loads of protests but it seems every day new building sites are appearing.  Is this happening all around the UK, anybody live where similar things are happening? 

[dorisday]

They seem to be doing this most places.  Southend sea front used to be full of lovely buildings full of character, as you say one by one they are being ripped down and replaced by steel and glass fronted apartment blocks for the elderly, nothing for first time buyers or the disabled!!

[Hgrove]

It is happening here too and they are choosing the most unsuitable roads - for ex. near me, a narrow road with the railway running parallel on one side, and only two turnings off this road, meaning all the extra traffic of cars for all the new flats have nowhere to go or park.  I think it's a disgrace as the infrastructure cannot cope.