PROGRESS = forward movement towards a destination.
STRATEGICALLY TOWARDS WHAT DESTINATION?
WITH = accompanied by
PRUDENCE = the quality of cautiousness.
STRATEGICALLY IN A HOUSING CRISIS HOW PROGRESSIVE
OR CAUTIOUS IS IT DEMOLISH A DWELLING & POSSIBLY
CONSIGN THE INVESTED RESOURCES TO LANDFILL?
THE TREVALLYNhouse
A HOUSE OWNED BY THE COMMUNITY AND MANAGED
BY THE CITY OF LAUNCESTON COUNCIL
With the demolition of this dwelling what:
- Social dividends or deficits does the decision deliver?
- Under SECTION 65 what 'professional advice' was on offer and supplied by whom in what context?
- Purposeful strategic imperatives are in play relative to 'resource recovery" appropriate land use and cultural landscaping?
- Consideration has been given to 'the place's' Community of Ownership and Interest's values, obligations & right's in a 21st C context?
FEASIBLY, the resources invested in this building could be reconfigured to provide MICROaccommodation for 9 or 10 people. In a housing crisis it is social delinquency and fiscal folly NOT to interrogate the options and opportunities to deliver an outcome that fits the circumstance and pays attention to the housing crisis, and the need for housing that is clear and present.
Moreover,IF ONcycled and resources from elsewhere were to be added then feasibly every last kilo of the resource in this structure could be strategically and economically ONcycled to possibly create a demonstration of a MACRO-CUM-MICRO community of autonomous ‘dwellings’ as a consequence of decades of Council failing to maintain a community asset.
Council's management has a record of working on the premise that ‘ratepayers are not investors and do not need to make a profit’. That’s the premise that reportedly underpinned the Birchalls Building. While there isa modicum of truth in the ‘assertion’, ratepayers pay rates in order to receive SOCIALdividends and here with this ‘dwelling’
However, IF the BUREAUCRATIC door is slammed shut, and tightly, then the STATUSquo will prevail as might the dystopia it harbours. Nonetheless, the door might not be shut and IF so, either an Expression of Interest or submissions from interested parties might yet rest this house from what bears all the hallmarks of bureaucracy’s dysfunctionalism – and arguably a dereliction of duty as well.
Questions arise regarding the veracity of the assertions made in the report to Councillors. 'In business and academe’ such assertions are characterised as ‘truth by assertion’ and once tested they typically fall over. At the most basic level IF Council lacks the business acumen to deliver a ‘dividend’ (final or social)this ‘home’ would feasibly fetch something in the order of $600K. That being so the fiscal dividends should NOT absorb into general revenue and the funds raised might well be put to work elsewhere – ideally relieving housing stress in the jurisdiction.
On the face of it this determination by Council poses serious questions for ratepayers and especially so given what appears to be forfeited for the seeming lack of strategic thinking that appears to leave ratepayers and HOMEseekers in less than a favourable position at a time such the present. Arguably, a significant factor in all this is Councils ongoing reluctance to employ an architect that would enable Council to work collaboratively and cooperatively in its placemaking towards better outcomes.
In as=ddition, the figures estimated for the cost of renovation and demolition need to interrogated as people in 'THE INDUSTRY' are saying that they are unrealistic and Coucil's record in such matters leaves to be desired.
This structure is NOT RUBBISH albeit that the decision making might well be considered in that way!
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Moriyama house is located in Ohta-ku, a residential area in the center of Tokyo dotted with single-family houses and midsize apartment blocks, placed orderly on a traditional urban pattern that preserves a typically Japanese atmosphere. Drawing inspiration from the extremely fragmented fabric of the capital – a reflection of its fast-paced growth –, the house reinvents the traditional concept of the Japanese dwelling by distributing, on a 290 square meter plot, a group of independent volumes that include the dwelling of the owner and, temporarily, five rental apartments.
