balcony blight has spread to Jægersborggade

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With Coronavirus lockdown restrictions, it has been many months since I have been up to Jægersborggade but Saturday was sunny, and I needed some exercise, so I walked up to the lakes and then on along Nørrebrogade and through Assistens Kirkegård.

As soon as I got into Jægersborggade, opposite the north gate of the cemetery, I could see that construction work had started to add balconies to the front of several of the west-facing buildings.

This whole business of retrofitting older apartment buildings with new balconies has become a serious problem in the city.

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retrofitting balconies is a problem

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Walk around Copenhagen and you realise that this is the city of balconies … many of the buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries have elaborate balconies and, on modern buildings, balconies can come in almost any shape or size or form.

But there is a growing problem with retrofitting balconies on buildings that did not have them originally and particularly when basic, box-like, metal balconies are added across the street frontage of a building.

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