... being built, unfortunately for those needing a home in Wales, the homes are being built in Shanghai ...
... I was astonished when Andrew Marr made the announcement in his new series called "Megacities" (if you missed the first episode it is available on the BBC iPlayer), in the series he looks at how people live in five of the world's largest cities of London, Dhaka, Tokyo, Mexico City and Shanghai.
Of course it is much simpler to provide mass housing when you are developing a new city like Shanghai and the government is China, planning is pragmatic, a means to an end; would our politicians at Cardiff Bay emulate the Chinese please, pragmatism please.
Could it be the solution is "build it and they will come", not so much a megacity, more a mega-Cardiff, or mega-Swansea, or "mega-somewhere-with-good-links" to London the megacity of Great Britain. Might the answer be to join Cardiff with Newport in the East and Bridgend in the West, a massive urban adventure to create the thousands of homes needed; forget the rural idyll of Wales past, it didn't exist, there was only hard graft, poor living and the Chapel on Sundays. It is time to start building, forget the Plaid model that is preventative, look across Offa's Dyke for HA solutions that work for people of all parts of society, Jephson is a particularly good example of a holistic approach to housing, Shanghai is the proof of the "housing needs" pudding.
Get building Carwyn, and they will come, in their droves with their approval, who needs a damp house in perpetual shade when we have award winning architects and builders aplenty.
... I was astonished when Andrew Marr made the announcement in his new series called "Megacities" (if you missed the first episode it is available on the BBC iPlayer), in the series he looks at how people live in five of the world's largest cities of London, Dhaka, Tokyo, Mexico City and Shanghai.
Of course it is much simpler to provide mass housing when you are developing a new city like Shanghai and the government is China, planning is pragmatic, a means to an end; would our politicians at Cardiff Bay emulate the Chinese please, pragmatism please.
Could it be the solution is "build it and they will come", not so much a megacity, more a mega-Cardiff, or mega-Swansea, or "mega-somewhere-with-good-links" to London the megacity of Great Britain. Might the answer be to join Cardiff with Newport in the East and Bridgend in the West, a massive urban adventure to create the thousands of homes needed; forget the rural idyll of Wales past, it didn't exist, there was only hard graft, poor living and the Chapel on Sundays. It is time to start building, forget the Plaid model that is preventative, look across Offa's Dyke for HA solutions that work for people of all parts of society, Jephson is a particularly good example of a holistic approach to housing, Shanghai is the proof of the "housing needs" pudding.
Get building Carwyn, and they will come, in their droves with their approval, who needs a damp house in perpetual shade when we have award winning architects and builders aplenty.
