Originally Posted by
bsslang
Big balcony is about 10% of gross floor area. Coincidentally is about the 10% free GFA for developer to design such area...so feel very fishy people are paying for it into developer's pocket.
Air-con ledges are not part of GFA. So making it big prob helps to squeeze more free GFA for more units for the developement.
I believe the authority can do some level of control over wasteful architectural design. Bay window used to be norm since 2001 but disappearing due to the authority making it inclusive of the GFA in 2008.