• thehatfox@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    What a waste. Although considering the amount of corner cutting on the building’s appearance and features, I’m not sure I’d trust the structural integrity either.

    The apartments are occupied too so demolishing them is could leave people homeless.

    I would hope lessons will be learned from this, plenty more rogue developments could slip through if we are ever going to ramp up house building to the needed levels without proper oversight.

    • Treczoks@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      While it is a waste, it is necessary not to let things like that slip. They built something they did not have a permission for, as simple as that. Just like when you decide to expand your home with an annex without a permit.

      They got permission to build a house based on plans A, and actually built a house based on plans B. And by the looks of it, we are not talking about the building being 5cm to wide in one direction (which had led to a tear down order here in one case), but quite a number of massive violations.

      • activ8r@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Absolutely. I’m fully on board with them demolishing it, but they should also be liable for all costs involved with the tennants along with compensation for the additional time and effort required in the tennants part. The developers need to be held accountable for every aspect of this, not just their own costs in the demo/rebuild.