Your unpopular opinions

I don't think this is unpopular with anyone here, but it is unpopular with developers.  There is a Public Consultation to ask if there should be no disabled housing built in future, or a little bit, a little bit accessible, or (Option 4) to ban any more inaccessible new build, and make it compulsory that a proportion must be fully disabled usable.   That means new building regulations should make it impossible for councils to give consent to have anything but minimum standard M4 (2), meaning wheelchair users can get into the door, but some should be standard M 4 (3), meaning disabled people can actually move round their home in a wheelchair, and don't need to have carers doing things they are capable of doing themselves.

Because the national housing stock has virtually not a single unit of M4(3) fully  disabled friendly usable housing anywhere, there is a good argument that the national housing stock needs correcting, by making every single new build to M 4(3).    It is so easy to simply alter the design before construction, and the extra cost is only £1,400, according to this Public Consultation paper.   Altering adequately after the home is built not only costs a fortune, but is never completely adequate.    

SCOPE, please could you transfer this with the right link to a place people will see it?    After the Public Consultation closes, in two week's time, it will be too late.   Millions of new build are ready to be pushed through planning and constructed in a mass home building drive.   The Equalities Impact assessment has declared that having nowhere to live has a positive impact on elderly and disabled people.    You won't believe it, so check 50. and 51 of the document, which says exactly that.   You don't have to be disabled today, and don't need to be a carer today, to realise that a fully wheelchair accessible home is fine for non disabled and disabled people, all their lives, but if they ever need it, and there is no such thing in the national housing stock, they will regret not getting onto that Public Consultation and filling in option 4, with a remark in the remarks box underneath, explaining the entire building regulations should demand M4 (3) for every single newbuild.

We can be sure the big developers will moan, because that extra £1,400 off their profit will annoy them.  But the population of the country need housing that will not become useless to them, not shoddy inaccessible brick rabbit hutches, with or without cladding, such as the construction approved in recent years. 

Cress, it is bewildering why stating a fact is a problem.   Nice knowing you too.

66Mustang said:

I like school dinners / in flight catering / hospital food

The three can be pretty similar in taste and nutritional content!

I dont think cancer charities should advertise free will writing services...

I also dislike rap

All religions should be treated as a hobby and have no place in schools, the workplace or anywhere in public life...

@Cher_Scope ?