I londinesi chiedono che l’ospedale oncologico non venga ampliato perché “bloccherà la luce solare”
Londoners urge for cancer hospital not to be expanded because it will ‘block sunlight’
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I londinesi chiedono che l’ospedale oncologico non venga ampliato perché “bloccherà la luce solare”
Londoners urge for cancer hospital not to be expanded because it will ‘block sunlight’
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Time for Chelsea residents to learn that “fuck off” is a complete sentence.
There are laws for this sort of thing for good reasons so long as the new extension follows the right to light rules then residents can get bent.
I’m not a defender of NIMBYism at all, but honestly? Here, kinda get it, looking at the image. It is pretty large and not within the character of the area, the design could be reworked. I’ve lived in a drafty old house and sunlight and warmth are damn precious, the impact on your mental health in the colder, darker months is real. I likely wouldn’t have objected if living there myself because the expansion is needed, but I do actually empathise to an extent as I don’t think this is the usual “but muh house prices” BS.
I know there’s always nuances but having seen what cancer does to people, the sun can go fuck itself, build more cancer hospitals, as many as we can, expand them as far as you can, just go nuts. Cast half the country into shadow if that’s what it takes.
When your time comes you will thank me.
The fact it’s Chelsea was purposefully omitted from the headline, otherwise no sympathy would be expressed whatsoever
Well yeah. People want to enjoy the sun in their back gardens. Residents are entitled to object and those objections should be assessed using clear objective standards.
I wish UK planning laws had some way of those building compensating those negatively affected by new developments. We’d get a lot more built.
NIMBYism showing itself to be some sort of psychiatric disorder yet again. To a lot of these people, the moment trigger words appear like planning, permission, extension, new build etc are used they instinctively go into full meltdown and they don’t appear to know why.
They’re probably the same people you see objecting progress, new builds etc citing lack of infrastructure but in this case the infrastructure is being expanded (it’s a cancer hospital…) yet they still object.
Let’s hope they never need to use it, for they shouldn’t need to be reminded of why it’s needed if the worse were to happen.
Yep.
Does not suprise me one bit.
We get complaints when a air ambulance lands on the pad. “It’s too loud”, “It’s flying too low, not safe”, “Have you not thought about the pollution?”, “It’s just a glorified taxi”.
Oh fuck off.
The Marsden has a Sutton branch which doesn’t back into residential housing. I wonder why they can’t expand there
Well maybe that’s the goal of the hospital ahaha, prolonged sun exposure is cancerous after all loll
This is in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.
The place where locals hated a tower block full of poor people so much, they got it wrapped in flammable cladding and let time take its course.
There’s a good article on CAPX about this.
They uncovered some of the submitted objections – including this gem:
‘My home is a Grade II Listed building,’ another local writes *in their objection to an expansion of a cancer hospital*. ‘The proposed development would cause significant harm to its setting, character and historic significance, contrary to the statutory duty to preserve listed buildings and their surroundings.’
https://capx.co/nimby-watch-chelsea-fights-a-cancer-unit
All the holier-than-thou comments in this thread. I bet 95% here would also be complaining lol.
There’s parks every 2 minutes they should just go for a walk
And then if they get skin cancer from too much sun, what then? what then?!
The tone of a lot of these comments is pretty ridiculous, to be honest. It feels like many people have already decided they don’t care purely because it’s in Chelsea, and have a bit of a chip on their shoulder about the residents there.
I live locally (though not close enough to be affected at all) and I can still understand why people might raise concerns. If a developer proposed building a six-storey building at the end of my road, I’d probably have a few questions for the planning department too and I suspect most people here would if it were happening at the end of their garden.
That doesn’t mean the hospital isn’t important, or that it shouldn’t be built. But dismissing residents’ concerns out of hand just because of where they live is unfair. Planning rules exist for a reason and it’s reasonable for people to expect them to be followed and properly considered.