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4FYDpCHW•

As long as apartments are built to quality standards as in Europe, rather than the awful junk we have now. Our present building regulations are designed to benefit the developers, rather than the residents.

Example: Sound proofing that actually works. Double walls, double ceilings and floors, which are structurally isolated.

I stayed in an apartment recently that had a very flash wooden staircase. The problem however was that the wooden steps went through the brick wall to form another staircase on the other side. When the kids next door ran up and down it was like living in a giant Xylophone.

We need FUNCTIONAL building regulations. Good thermal insulation, good sound proofing, etc.

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RedHourMagicOP•

Totally agree with you, esp older style apartments have next to no sound insulation. If more emphasis is directed towards apartment living than mcmansion developments 50 km outside of CBD they have to up the quality.

It's amazing to me how low the standard and yet how expensive construction costs are.

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butters1337•

Yeah make Melbourne more compact, that way we can cram another 3-4 million in by 2030.

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plucky5•

If Melbourne was to become a compact city, cardiovascular disease would drop by 19 per cent and type 2 diabetes by 14 per cent, the report's authors found.

Yes the blame is on the refugees and unemployed and under-employed. Not the folks who have all the loot. It's everyone else's fault. The CEOs profit on the death of the planet and the fucking idiot author of the article is blaming the urban sprawl on least able to have any affect on the planning.

The voters have no say, we know it.

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