How Does The Block Get Permits Turned around So Quickly?

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  Halo375 on 26/08/2019 - 20:29

  +6

  Mix of both. Its an act and is well pre-planned with enough money to grease the wheels (not bribery money, just promotional stuff)

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    Lv80 on 26/08/2019 - 21:22

    Think you are right. It's all planned and staged. 90% staged…10% actual 'reality'.
    Fakety shows more like it

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  Lv80 on 26/08/2019 - 20:29

  +8

  Throw $$$ at council and they'll do things quickly

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    Kangal on 26/08/2019 - 20:32

    Nah, they'll get to it later…

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      Lv80 on 26/08/2019 - 20:58

      IKR!!

      Takes me 6 months to get council approval to have my side fence 2 foot higher!

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    [Deactivated] on 26/08/2019 - 20:58

    +6

    A chemical engineer once told me, there is no greater lubricant than stacks of cash.

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  Zedsdeadbabyzedsdead on 26/08/2019 - 21:21

  Go and see Jenny from the block.

  PS

  She don't care about the rocks she got.

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    [Deactivated] on 26/08/2019 - 21:44

    +1

    She used to have little and now she has a lot.

    p.s: Jenny from the block is a liar. Her parents were well-off and she was private-schooled.

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      Zedsdeadbabyzedsdead on 26/08/2019 - 21:51

      She must be great mates with AOC!

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        DeafMutePretender on 26/08/2019 - 23:23

        +1

        Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24, 1969,[7] in The Bronx borough of New York City,[8] to Puerto Rican parents[2] Guadalupe Rodríguez[9] and David López.[10] She has an older sister, Leslie, and a younger sister, Lynda, a journalist.[11] David worked the night shift at the Guardian Insurance Company before becoming a computer technician at the firm, while Guadalupe was a homemaker. When Lopez was born, the family was living in a small apartment in the Castle Hill neighborhood. A few years later, her parents had saved up enough money to be able to purchase a two-story house, which was considered a big deal for the relatively poor family.[12] At the age of five, Lopez began taking singing and dancing lessons. She toured New York with her school when she was seven years old. Her parents stressed the importance of work ethic and being able to speak English. They encouraged their three daughters to put on performances at home—singing and dancing in front of each other and their friends so that they would stay "out of trouble".[13] Lopez spent her entire academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at Preston High School.[14] In school, Lopez did gymnastics, ran track on a national level, and was a member of the school's softball team.[15] She excelled athletically rather than academically, competing in national track championships.[13]

        While attending her final year of high school, Lopez learned about a film casting that was seeking several teenage girls for small roles. She auditioned and was cast in My Little Girl (1986), a low-budget film co-written and directed by Connie Kaiserman.[16] Lopez acted as Myra, a young woman at a center for troubled girls. After she finished filming her role in the film, Lopez realized that she wanted to become a "famous movie star". To please her parents, though, she enrolled in Baruch College, only to drop out after one semester. She told her parents about her dream of becoming a movie star, but they insisted that it was a "really stupid" idea and that "no Latinos did that". The differences in opinions led Lopez to move out of their family home and into an apartment in Manhattan. During this period, Lopez performed in regional productions of the musicals Jesus Christ Superstar and Oklahoma!. From there, she was hired for the chorus in a Golden Musicals of Broadway, which toured Europe for five months. She was unhappy with the role, as she was the only member of the chorus not to have a solo. She later got a job on the show Synchronicity in Japan, where she acted as a dancer, singer, and choreographer.[12]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lopez#Early_life

        So before she was even double-digit age, she was living in a 2-storey house?
        AND she had a father figure that promoted a good "work ethic"?
        AND she did well in school?
        AND she had job opportunities knocking on her door?
        AND she didn't have a teenage pregnancy (common in the Latino community)?

        That's all well and good and I'm happy for her but why does she then need to promote the degeneracy of bronx living via "Jenny from the block"?

        She must be great mates with AOC!

        Both Latinas, both progressives, and both trying to hide their privileged roots (while AOC accuses others of having privilege, don't know about Jenny).

        Interesting.

        More research:

        Castle Hill is a high density, urban neighborhood. The area has a relatively diverse population; primarily consisting of African Americans, and Latin Americans, most predominantly Puerto Ricans (Castle Hill has one of the highest concentrations of Puerto Ricans in all of New York City).

        Hispanic or Latino of any race were 57.8% (31,026) of the population.[7]

        I'm sure it's easier to live in the ghetto if you're part of the majority population.

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          Zedsdeadbabyzedsdead on 26/08/2019 - 23:34

          @DeafMutePretender: Spot on. they love to play the victim card!

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  [Deactivated] on 26/08/2019 - 21:37

  +1

  Most of those 'new' plans are already pre-approved before the show even begins. The episodes are also not filmed in real time and there's quite a bit of editing involved. They have to make things look dramatic - watching paint drying isn't all that interesting after all.

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  jjjaar on 27/08/2019 - 07:52

  +1

  As other have said, a lot of it is already agreed upon before. The majority of the structural stuff will have been approved long in advance.

  With some of the last minute things (a non structural wall being pushed back 1m), they would firstly know what things can and can’t be changed that quickly, and secondly - the recent 4-5 seasons have all been within the one council so they would probably have a good relationship with them and be communicating very well so they know when the changes would pop up, in the event they need to be reviewed/approved last minute.

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    Wickz on 27/08/2019 - 18:19

    I remember reading in an interview with Scotty Cam, that he said that its much easier to get permits and liaise with the current council (and do the show in Melbourne) than it ever was in Sydney; which is why the show never returned there.

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  GG57 on 27/08/2019 - 09:13

  I wouldn't believe anything that is shown as an apparent 'crisis' or 'issue' on any of these shows. All the permits are in place way ahead of time.

  The next series should be interesting, as the location is in a different council area, and on a busy street. The current (and recent series) locations have all been in Port Phillip Council, who are well versed in working with developers.
  The next series will be in Bayside, which doesn't have the same reputation.