Housing Crisis - a novel idea

[sime42]

Admittedly I'm biased, not being a golfer, but to me they just seem to be a completely unproductive blot on the landscape. Ever spreading, like a rash. They've got next to no wildlife/biodiversity or ecological value and only a very limited amenity value. Why not therefore convert some of them to housing estates?

 

Architect defends ‘provocative’ housing plans for Enfield Golf Club

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Founding director of Shoreditch architectural firm RCKa says that building homes on golf courses could be a way to...

 

Building houses on Britain’s vast, exclusive golf courses makes sense for everyone – even golfers | Phineas Harper | The Guardian

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Such radical plans wouldn’t just help tackle our chronic lack of housing, but also let the sport shed its elitist tag, says Phineas...

 

 

I was looking at Manchester on Google maps the other day, for something unrelated, and was astounded to see how many golf courses there were, just on the south side. All that wasted land.

 

 

 

[GarethM]

Hopefully this is an April fools joke and not just bear baiting?.

Edited November 29, 2023 by GarethM

[Mark Bolam]

Parks as well.

What are they good for?

 

And farm land.

We don’t need that any more, you can get all your food from the shops.

[GarethM]

Pave paradise and put up a parking lot.

 

He'll suggest we all live in Dredd style towers next.

Edited November 29, 2023 by GarethM

[Steven P]

 

Never saw the point of golf but the courses to give a bit of green space that is protected from the spread of Barratt shacks. They won't build on golf courses since that is a selling point.

 

(However the architect from a firm nobody has heard of is now an architect from a firm we will forget next week but will have heard of briefly this week)

Edited November 29, 2023 by Steven P

[Mike Hill]

Could we not simply live in tunnels? HD screens as Windows?

Let the earth's surface revert back to nature and stuff?

[GarethM]

Will there be a big dome and a flashing light in my hand?

[Stere]

Why not a system of low impact mobile/ prefabs/trailer park  homes  using "eco" materials where possible   mass produced for ecomony   modular by design

 

A modern well insulated prefabs probably nicer than alot of uk housing stock.

[sime42]

Wowsers!. It was neither an April fools nor bear baiting.

 

Why's it such a bad idea, why are golf courses so great? Or are there just more golfers than I realised? If we've got to build more houses I'd rather they were built on golf courses or brownfield sites rather than farmland.

 

 

[sime42]

25 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Parks as well.

What are they good for?

 

And farm land.

We don’t need that any more, you can get all your food from the shops.

You jest but I bet a lot of the youth these days think that food is made in shops.