It had been long a common complaint among estate neighbours - their own balcony is being treated as a dumping ground, intentionally or accidentally by the upstairs units.
From cigarettes, papers, tissues, toys, clothing everything except money! The design of the estate's balconies simply cannot make it! Some big, some small, some long & narrow. Some are lucky to be sheltered by the bigger balcony and escape being littered.
Homeowners who has regular balcony throughout the floors already faces such problem - what's worse, the design of our estate's makes it more easy for littler bugs who simply opt to fling their stuff out of the window.
We use that limited amount of space to dry our laundry, to park our bicycles, to grown some green, a small outdoor area for the kids to play, yet there are people who throw all sorts of sort out of the windows without sparing a thought for others. Parents are ignorant of kids throwing down books, stickers even toys - the maids cant be bothered to with their mischief.
Parents worried for their kids safety put up grills like the first pix from the top on your left. Even putting up window grills also caused some ridiculous hoo-haa at some properties.
READ REPORT HERE
Those who wants safety but hate those bulky metal rods, can go for invisible grills, like the 2nd pix from the top on your left. The unit below mine has a big balcony, and they did invisible grill.
I guess they are simply fed up with all the nonsense found on their wood-deck balcony so here's what they did recently.
Simply add a "roof" to it!
Is the additional approved by the authorities? I'm not sure and I'm not going ask them. After all, they have spent money putting it up to protect their own space... do you expect them to tear it down?
Quoting an estate's neighbour - in the first place "they" never put it in writing that there's a plan to incorporate a eatery among the void deck, now "they" are going ahead with it despite some opposing the idea.
So... last time cannot put up the 'roof' b'cos it will spoil the outlook of the estate, but now because of increase littering problem, so house owners are allow to take things into his own hands?
I first posted the "Roof Added" in our estate facebook page but similar to the equally sensitive issue of having the eatery, it was later taken down.
Now, my personal blog space, doesnt mean to bring trouble to any neighbours, not mean to stir any trouble, just wanted post some happening around the house - can I or cannot publish this post? Or post first delete later?
