La “città giardino” di 2.500 case del principe William nei terreni agricoli del Kent è stata approvata, nonostante la furia per le affermazioni “pugno nell’occhio”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/prince-william-garden-town-faversham-approved-5HjdWC7_2/
di insomnimax_99
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Complain about eyesore then post the nicest fucking town I’ve seen in ages. NIMBY’s are just against housing fullstop, you couldn’t appease them even if Sir Christopher Wren personally designed each building himself.
Nimbys having a moan again. I wish I was in charge of town planning, I would pick whingiest, moaning NIMBY of them all and select their property to have a 5G tower plonked right outside their window.
Housing shortage that has fucked over the young for a generation and some old boomers start this shit….
So he’s creating Poundbury II?
That got lots of flak for being twee (I don’t remember if it was ever called an eyesore, but its appearance was roundly criticised – “fake, heartless, authoritarian and grimly cute”)
I think it was a good initiative (high density without being high rise, designed to reduce car usage, 35% social housing and carbon neutral
We need more homes. We should have a national body in charge of the minimum standards of what a good development looks like and ignore local objections. People always hate local changes so there is no point listening to them.
Like his Dad did before him… Should call “New Poundbury” It’s almost like there aware of the problems in the UK…. And it not really being immigrant related… But instead people not being able to get houses they want to live in…
My Estate went to the high court, Even though it meets all of the “arbitrary” requirements the local village set and the only reason we got approval is because they built a supermarket next door… And that must have distracted them? As they went really after that…. Even though I guarantee most of the village now shop there.
Things need to change in the UK when it comes to planning and housing.
This is near me, we need more housing, this does not look anything like an eyesore. But alongside new housing developments we ALSO need improved road, rail, sewage and utilities infrastructure, as what is there now is already overloaded and will get worse for existing and new residents if it isn’t scaled alongside increasing housing. Houses without accompanying infrastructure and statutory provision is useless, and cannot be fulfilled ‘by the market’ as roads, gas main, schools and so on are not private sector enterprises. The reality is that adding substantial housing stock actually means at least doubling the build and land costs to upscale everything else so people can actually live in the area.
I would hardly call my new build an eyesore and those look much nicer.
Always ‘fury’ over these things, as if the sheer level of apoplexy these Nimbys work themselves into gives them any degree of legitimacy.
You never get headlines about the ‘fury’ of renters who can’t afford a mortgage deposit, or the ‘fury’ of green campaigners who want a solar plant built despite Nimby nonsense.
Two ways to quickly and relatively simply overcome the current stranglehold that NIMBYs have over this country:
1) Secondary legislation to increase permitted development rights. Relatively simple to pass in 1-2 months, no huge debate needed, not much they can do about it other than moan. Some councils will try to use article 4 to remove PDRs but that can be tackled separately.
2) Secretary of State calls in all planning decisions on sites > 200 units. This would be purely an updated policy, no new laws required at all. Absolutely nothing that local councils or NIMBYs can do to stop it.