Fortunately, the intolerable failures reported below cannot occur in the UK under the wise guidance of Very Dear Leader Keir Starmer and his Highly Respected Deputy Angela Rayner.
New homes in flood zones show major defects less than year after construction
Serious problems have surfaced in new homes built in flood-hit regions last year, less than 12 months after construction finished. People say the issues were unavoidable due to shoddy construction as authorities rushed to meet deadlines despite supply shortages...
A photo of some of the homes obtained by Daily NK shows roofs with tiles that have fallen off or been damaged. Someone can be seen fixing the roof tiles. The houses’ exteriors look patchy, as if they’re damp.
The photo shows new houses built in parts of Kimhyongjik county that were flooded last year. The homes are occupied.
Serious problems have surfaced in new homes built in flood-hit regions last year, less than 12 months after construction finished. People say the issues were unavoidable due to shoddy construction as authorities rushed to meet deadlines despite supply shortages...
A photo of some of the homes obtained by Daily NK shows roofs with tiles that have fallen off or been damaged. Someone can be seen fixing the roof tiles. The houses’ exteriors look patchy, as if they’re damp.
The photo shows new houses built in parts of Kimhyongjik county that were flooded last year. The homes are occupied.
4 comments:
Young people are urged to keep an eye on North Korea. It might just be a picture of the UK's future. Apart from the colour of the roof tiles, those houses could have been built on a new estate anywhere in Britain. They only need to be accompanied by a young couple doing Daily Mail sadface, and there we go. "Our 'dream home' is a waking nightmare", say Ipswich newlyweds"
The clue is in the name - " flood plain ".
All that dead flat ground is not the result of prehistoric man's obsessional use of graders. And the material eroded from hills and mountains did not always make it to the sea.
For millennia people have learned not to build on a flood plain. That was good for cattle and crops because the floods covered the land with free fertiizer. But homes? No. Unless built on stilts - see Queenslander houses.
Same with flat roofs in a wet climate. Which it seems that NK has avoided, along with that wonderful RACC.
Perhaps Kim Jong Ding Dong had been given a copy of John Prescott's book, "How To Build Houses on Flood Plains". It worked for him. He got a peerage.
Penseivat
Sam - that's the interesting aspect of North Korea, each story raises the same question - Where are the rock solid safeguards which prevent the UK from drifting in the same direction?
Doonhamer - "For millennia people have learned not to build on a flood plain."
Then suddenly Those Who Know Best forgot about the natural world, natural cycles and the perennial problem that excess water has to go somewhere.
Penseivat - yes it has been going on for a long time. I remember people complaining about planning approval being given for building on flood plains in the seventies.
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