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    1. heartofsn on

      ‘Please don’t give families somewhere to live, I want to look at a field, also, it makes my own house worth more if I sell it.’

    2. greatdrams23 on

      It’s a bit of an exaggeration to say there will be no green land left!

    3. BagOFrogs on

      Well yes. We can’t bang on about a “population crisis” and needing everyone to start breeding more, then also complain that additional housing is eating into the countryside.

    4. Krabsandwich on

      “I am all for building new homes for people”…… just not where it will depress my house value and view. We need more homes where people want to live for access to work and services, however not in my backyard is a all to common refrain.

    5. Eddysgoldengun on

      Build up rather than out then if Countryside is so important then Japan has a countryside still while having a population over 100m

    6. ash_ninetyone on

      > The housing market stopped being about housing years ago and became about investment opportunities, hence the current housing crisis and homelessness problems while student flats are being built everywhere. Sad but true.

      That point is valid at least.

    7. Competitive_Golf8206 on

      My favourite is when coastal towns bang on about it, you’ve got one side on sea where tf did you expect the buildings to go 

    8. frontendben on

      Ever expanding out does no one any favours (aside from house builders who can cheap out). These developments create a huge amount of infrastructure (roads, water, gas etc) that all needs to be maintained. Considering we can’t afford to maintain the roads we have now, and these developments are typically low density and have a poor tax per sq m return (usually not covering the cost of maintaining that new infrastructure, never mind the services that councils pay for, they’re a terrible idea just from a fiscal perspective; never mind an environmental one.

      They’re also terrible from an individual financial perspective forcing people to own and operate at least one car; often several. That saps hundreds more a month out of local economies.

      We need a change in how we build houses. We need to accept that we can no longer build outwards and we can no longer leave the vast swathes of sprawling detached and semidetached homes close to existing transport infrastructure untouched. There needs to be encouragement to increase the density of existing areas instead of sprawling out in a never ending fiscally unsustainable development pattern.

    9. squirrelbo1 on

      Let’s build up then.

      “Oh well I don’t want big imposing towers !”

    10. TheAwesomeMan123 on

      “Man who built house on green land annoyed other people have the same idea.” Should be the correct headline.

    11. Groffulon on

      Lmao after one Google search. Quote from Visit Bristol –

      “Even though Bristol is a city, it is closely surrounded by glorious countryside, there are over 400 parks and green spaces and we have some amazing outdoor visitor attractions so it’s easy to spend time outside here”.

      NIMBYs are the worst pearl clutching curtain twitchers who never actually go anywhere in their local neighbourhood. We have great public transport, roads for cars, bikes and even paths through everywhere for y’know pushbikes and feet.

    12. EssexGuyUpNorth on

      Local news sites always report the building of new houses as if it were a bad thing.

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