Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Valmy]

In a house it is in a utility room. In an apartment (if it has one) it will be in a closet.

[Threviel]

In Sweden washing machines in apartments are in the bathroom. Handling dirty underwear in the kitchen Brit-style has always seemed a bit yuk to me.

In better and self-owned apartments yes. For rented apartments there's normally a communal utility room in the basement that can be booked in 4-hour installments.

If you want your own washing machine you normally have to pay for it yourself and install it in the bath room.

[Josquius]

In a house it is in a utility room. In an apartment (if it has one) it will be in a closet.

The cupboard being in the kitchen?

And guess this goes for non mansion homes too

[The Brain]

In Sweden washing machines in apartments are in the bathroom. Handling dirty underwear in the kitchen Brit-style has always seemed a bit yuk to me.

In better and self-owned apartments yes. For rented apartments there's normally a communal utility room in the basement that can be booked in 4-hour installments.

If you want your own washing machine you normally have to pay for it yourself and install it in the bath room.

A communal utility room is standard regardless of rent or own. At least everywhere I've lived there has been one.

[garbon]

In a house it is in a utility room. In an apartment (if it has one) it will be in a closet.

In more modest homes, I've seen them in garages.

[Syt]

I've seen washing machines in kitchens, bathrooms, and occasionally in dedicated laundry rooms. A lot of apartment buildings (like mine) also have a communal laundry room (which I use).

As for kitchens, most apartments have a fully furnished one Vienna; in Genossenschaftswohnungen they're often selected and paid for by the tenant, and they will sell it on to the next tenants, but the whole setup is more complicated. Occasionally you'll see a kitchen without fridge or stovetop but it's rare.

Every once in a while you might still see a substandard apartment with a shower cabin in the kitchen , but they're pretty much extinct, often under 30 square meters (about 322 square ft).

[The Brain]

In a house it is in a utility room. In an apartment (if it has one) it will be in a closet.

In more modest homes, I've seen them in garages.

A modest home with a garage. Maybe you should check something, American.

[Tonitrus]

In a house it is in a utility room. In an apartment (if it has one) it will be in a closet.

- My parent's home (a large house) has it's own laundry/utility room.

- My first apartment in San Antonia (recently built in 2006) had the hookups in a "closet" off of the outside deck/patio (so you had to walk "outside" to do laundry). 

- First duplex I rented in Alaska had them a stacked unit in the bathroom.

- Apartment after that (California) had to use the community laundry room.

- Baltimore/base housing, was a closet between living room and downstairs bathroom.

- Alaska again/first apartment, community laundry room.  Then a condo with them in a closet off of the kitchen.

- UK: Not in the kitchen!  (this place actually has a utility room).

[Sheilbh]

Yeah - it's weird because I don't mind washing clothes in the kitchen like Brain said but I find shared/common washing facilities a bit gross, especially if it's not just flatmates but the general public/your university halls of residence

[Threviel]

I had a friend that claimed his washing a few times smelled of shit, due to previous user washing diapers.

[celedhring]

Over here:

- small-ish apartment: bathroom
- large-ish apartment or house: laundry room or gallery (where you also have the clotheslines)

My parents have it in the garage. Which is also common if you own a house with one.

[Tamas]

The Guardian is really, really, really trying to drum up opposition against the new planning laws. There's a new article every two days, envisioning the collapse of British life as we know it. Latest one:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/05/englands-planning-reforms-will-create-generation-of-slums


I think this could mean two things: either it is indeed a terrible thing, or a genuine solution to the housing crisis and they want to make sure people will not credit it as such.

[Tamas]

My favourite reason for doom and gloom from that article is:

Requiring local housing plans to be developed and agreed in 30 months, down from the current seven years.

SEVEN YEARS. I had no idea local authorities could sit on your plans for SEVEN YEARS.

[The Larch]

My favourite reason for doom and gloom from that article is:

Requiring local housing plans to be developed and agreed in 30 months, down from the current seven years.

SEVEN YEARS. I had no idea local authorities could sit on your plans for SEVEN YEARS.

It seems to me that that means the time that a local authority has to produce a housing plan, not that they can stop housing developments for seven years.

[Sheilbh]

The Guardian is really, really, really trying to drum up opposition against the new planning laws. There's a new article every two days, envisioning the collapse of British life as we know it. Latest one:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/05/englands-planning-reforms-will-create-generation-of-slums


I think this could mean two things: either it is indeed a terrible thing, or a genuine solution to the housing crisis and they want to make sure people will not credit it as such.

I mean it's the Guardian and it's a Tory government. Of course they're going to really oppose, it's the left-liberal paper. I've no idea whether these are good ideas or not, but my starting point is that we need to build more so things that make that easier are good.

I did note this line:

Hugh Ellis, director of policy at TCPA, criticised the reforms overall, saying: "This kind of disruptive reform doesn't suit anybody, neither landowners nor developers. They're turning the system on its head at a time when it's working very well for the volume house builders – 90% of planning applications are approved and there are about a million unbuilt permissions."

The two genders.