Riedquat Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 7 hours ago, iamnumerate said: Thanks for that - although I am pretty sure there would be people protesting against buildings in the middle of nowhere Of course, even harder to not get depressed by anyone wanting to fvck up places we've not made too much of a mess of yet. Building in general would be slightly more tolerable if it comes wth the viewpoint of a necessary evil, hand-in-hand with a long-term goal to stop the need for ever more development, but I've never seen anyone pro-building have that level of simple decency. The mess the last century of development has made (both in quality and quantity) is unforgiveable and attacking people disgusted and depressed by it really is very low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freki Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 I found those guys https://keepemmergreen.com/ They really don't go far enough of lower traffic. They should campaign for compulsory purchases, destroying houses and rewilder those areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 This is spectacular: Metro.co.uk: Northamptonshire: Gran claims BT broadband pole has wiped £30,000 from home's value. https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/08/fuming-gran-claims-monstrous-bt-broadband-pole-has-wiped-30000-from-homes-value-16070888/ The mum-of-one added: ‘It’s just horrific, we can’t believe it. I’ve noticed people walking past looking up in horror. We’ve always had a reputation for having the prettiest house in the area but now I feel embarrassed. ‘I am crushed and depressed. The pole is like a stake or a gallows outside our front door.’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Rolling Stone: Dave Chappelle’s Latest Achievement: Helping Kill an Affordable Housing Development. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dave-chappelle-affordable-housing-yellow-springs-1297588/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Yahoo News UK: Pensioners slam Openreach for erecting 30ft broadband mast outside their bungalows. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bt-openreach-broadband-mast-hereford-pensioners-175229214.html l Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 Kent Online: 'Horror' as building work to last more than 12 hours a day. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/news/horror-as-building-work-to-last-more-than-12-hours-a-day-265597/ Old people saying all that building work will be awful for (stops to think a bit) - young people! Yes young people! Building houses would be really awful for the young so don't do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/lifestyle/food-and-drink/otley-residents-object-to-chevin-park-hotel-plans-to-serve-alcohol-until-2am-3666601 Objecting to late drinking - in a pretty isolated location. Think of the wildlife.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Smelly telegraph pole impeding access to house (it's not) Northwich Guardian: Family shocked to find Openreach pole blocking home access and giving off 'toxic odour'. https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/20086571.northwich-family-shocked-find-openreach-pole-blocking-home-access/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Si1 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Jeremy Hunt FUMES https://thebritishclub.co.uk/jeremy-hunt-fumes-as-government-approves-gas-drilling-in-his-surrey-constituency/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Apparently you can't build flats on disused brownfield sites in the city centre because it will stop people going to the shops, wibble, or something: https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/furious-leeds-residents-slam-plans-24236428 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazypabs Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Property developers lead campaign effort to stop new homes in Amesbury https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/20210875.property-developers-lead-campaign-effort-stop-new-homes-amesbury/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zugzwang Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 On 08/02/2022 at 20:40, Si1 said: This is spectacular: Metro.co.uk: Northamptonshire: Gran claims BT broadband pole has wiped £30,000 from home's value. https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/08/fuming-gran-claims-monstrous-bt-broadband-pole-has-wiped-30000-from-homes-value-16070888/ The mum-of-one added: ‘It’s just horrific, we can’t believe it. I’ve noticed people walking past looking up in horror. We’ve always had a reputation for having the prettiest house in the area but now I feel embarrassed. ‘I am crushed and depressed. The pole is like a stake or a gallows outside our front door.’ Muppet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zugzwang Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 10 hours ago, Si1 said: Apparently you can't build flats on disused brownfield sites in the city centre because it will stop people going to the shops, wibble, or something: https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/furious-leeds-residents-slam-plans-24236428 Bozo's foriegn student plague already having an impact? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Objecting to a solar farm because "it will drain all the energy from the sun" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-town-rejects-solar-panels-amid-fears-they-suck-up-all-the-energy-from-the-sun-a6771526.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odysseus Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Objecting to skate park with zero consideration that these kids put their lives on hold for two years to protect the elderly. https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/people/elderly-residents-in-brackley-alarmed-at-plans-for-a-ps150000-skateboard-park-opposite-their-homes-3730042?amp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 15 minutes ago, Odysseus said: Objecting to skate park with zero consideration that these kids put their lives on hold for two years to protect the elderly. https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/people/elderly-residents-in-brackley-alarmed-at-plans-for-a-ps150000-skateboard-park-opposite-their-homes-3730042?amp Grrrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timm Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 34 minutes ago, Odysseus said: Objecting to skate park with zero consideration that these kids put their lives on hold for two years to protect the elderly. https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/people/elderly-residents-in-brackley-alarmed-at-plans-for-a-ps150000-skateboard-park-opposite-their-homes-3730042?amp Worth a look at google maps. If you want a quiet retirement, perhaps you don't want to buy slap bang between a leisure centre and the local Scout hut, opposite playing fields and next to a very dodgy looking pub? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/nets-to-tower-over-yorkshire-village-if-new-homes-are-built-next-to-rural-cricket-pitch-3744457 Scratching around for excuses. Not opposed to the houses rather than the cricket nets that will also be required. It's serious when there's a boomer in reactolites: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nero120 Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 So a family member (in law) has asked me to sign a petition preventing a development of 500+ houses from going ahead on the fields that their house backs on to. They live in a very affluent town next to our very affluent town. Now bear in mind that: We are renters looking to buy our first family home (obviously they know this) Their rich parents bought them a house for £1.5m in London in 2015 which they sold a few years later for less than they bought in for (quite an achievement in itself), then bought another ~£1m house which they then paid builders to redevelop before they moved in They are millenials Don't get me wrong, they are nice people but the lack of self awareness here is pretty breathtaking!! Not even 40 and already a NIMBY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Don't want hideous large-scale destructive mess of where they live? And you're having a go at them? The attitudes towards the places we live in from some on this site are disgusting. It's as if they're blind to the world around them, because I can't grasp how anyone cannot be appalled by the loss and mess that the last century of development has caused, and yet they're pressing for more of the same sort of vandalism. Not even a bit of "we need to put up with some now as a necessary evil, but we absolutely MUST stop the demand and hence any need for continual building;" at least that would be a position coming from basic decency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexton Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 7 hours ago, Riedquat said: Don't want hideous large-scale destructive mess of where they live? And you're having a go at them? The attitudes towards the places we live in from some on this site are disgusting. It's as if they're blind to the world around them, because I can't grasp how anyone cannot be appalled by the loss and mess that the last century of development has caused, and yet they're pressing for more of the same sort of vandalism. Not even a bit of "we need to put up with some now as a necessary evil, but we absolutely MUST stop the demand and hence any need for continual building;" at least that would be a position coming from basic decency. Talk about disgusting attitudes. Did WW1 not reduce the peasantry enough for you? If you didn't want your eyes offended by the sight of the lower orders and their housing you should have bought a country estate and not left it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve99 Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 On 01/08/2022 at 09:45, Riedquat said: Don't want hideous large-scale destructive mess of where they live? And you're having a go at them? The attitudes towards the places we live in from some on this site are disgusting. It's as if they're blind to the world around them, because I can't grasp how anyone cannot be appalled by the loss and mess that the last century of development has caused, and yet they're pressing for more of the same sort of vandalism. Not even a bit of "we need to put up with some now as a necessary evil, but we absolutely MUST stop the demand and hence any need for continual building;" at least that would be a position coming from basic decency. The people who created the visual construction/building/infrastructure mess as you see it, are the very same people that filled their pockets creating the mess, then buying up all the 'nice' properties with views then putting up the NIMBY sign's when they are nice and comfy, living in a sanitised version of the England they so adore. Tory, hypocrite central. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 I've wondering how many nimbies/boomers are behind this #Dontpay stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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