[GLLUG] Broadband/cable provider [OT]

[iain at shihad.org]

On 2013-03-06 13:36, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> On 6 March 2013 13:28, Richard W.M. Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 11:39:50AM +0000, iain at shihad.org wrote:
>>> Completely off topic, but I moved out of London last year. Since
>>> then, the house next door to me collapsed because the neighbours
>>> were attempting to build a basement,
>>
>> Lordy ...  Didn't that make the news?

Only local news

http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/10072925.Neighbour_s__nightmare__at_being_left_homeless_after_house_collapses/


>>
>
> I bet they did not have planning permission for that!

Cowboy builders as well probably

> When I was looking to buying a terraced house, and had a full
> structual done on one place I liked.
> The report said that too many houses in that street had done unsafe
> loft conversions that did not meet regulations, and it was a death
> trap waiting to happen, because it will probably collapse like cards.

Some of the polish builders I knew in London were amazed that many of 
the houses they worked on in London were still standing

Iain
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