Too many high-rise small homes causes social imbalance

“Hyperdense development in inappropriate locations is in danger of
destroying attempts to create community cohesion in the Thames Gateway
project [a massive development on the floodplain of the River Thames].

The report says that “naïve and over-generalised planning guidance” has
helped to create a situation “frankly inimical to the creation of mixed
communities”. It adds that the development of too many high rise blocks
could create the conditions for “social imbalance, economic failure and
ethnic tension”.

The report follows the publication of statistics showing that 90% of
recent development in the Lower Lea Valley consists of only one and two
bedroomed flats.”

This type of accommodation is built because it gives maximum profit and
is sold quickly. We won’t be getting this in Seaton will we? Well,
perhaps, as the Liatris planning calls for many 3, 4 and 5 storey blocks.