Below: Delapidated house on ul. Dumki. This really is a prime plot, away from the main road yet just 60m from where the asphalt ends. Looks like an old summerhouse - działka - on a long plot between Dumki and Sarabandy.
Below: also on ul. Dumki. Several hundred square metres of land in beautiful semi-rural Jeziorki; with planning permission for a small house, each square metre is surely worth several hundred zlotys. Yet no one seems to be bothered to do anything about it.
As I've mentioned before, pigeon tumbling is a popular pastime round these parts. And here's an abandoned pigeon loft, below, about to disappear into weeds that grow ever taller.
On the one hand, these abandoned buildings lend Jeziorki a fascinating air that the suburbs of western European capitals lack. On the other hand, it's a shame to see such potential wasted. Jeziorki is about individuality rather than sprawling developments of identical houses.
Below: I've described this bunker before - bushes and weeds alongside the path have grown up so high that it's all but invisible now.
On the one hand, these abandoned buildings lend Jeziorki a fascinating air that the suburbs of western European capitals lack. On the other hand, it's a shame to see such potential wasted. But then, Jeziorki is about individuality rather than sprawling developments of identical houses.
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Michael - any idea about who has title/ownership of said properties?
Bob
Hi Bob
I guess the original owners have died, their children are aware that there's some land that belongs to them, but there's loads of hassle associated with it all and they're under no financial pressure to sell. It's land in the capital; its value is bound to grow over time. And so they just sit on it. Just a guess!
Bob - about time a Warsaw blogmeet was called, don't you think?
Lovely post of an aspect of Warsaw that really impresses me - the lack of pressure on land available for housing. There are tens (hundreds?) of thousands of building plots and loads of land awaiting development: all within standard commuting distance of Warsaw centre. Developers buy decent size fields and build whole estates - you described Nowa Iwiczna recently.
After the densely packed, sardine squalidity of much of London, Warsaw looks open, green and fresh.
Michael - agree 100% - let's schedule one. I'll contact you by email this week and we can see about doing so!
Bob
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