Nimby's... I hate them

ILW

I would fight tooth and nail to stop the building of a load of "affordable" chav boxes on the heathland opposite my house.

abaxas

ILW wrote: »

I would fight tooth and nail to stop the building of a load of "affordable" chav boxes on the heathland opposite my house.

And lose. You have no right to a view.

the_flying_pig

It's natural, of course for the NIMBYs to try and protect their own interests.

The ridiculous thing is that we've got to a situation where they often actually get listened to.

They should, obviously, be ignored completely in many cases.

If you move to [say] a nice residential area with a nice park opposite you're entitled to a reasonable expectation that someone won't start doing open cast mining in the park.

But, more generally, if you yourself live in a normal residential property in an area where there's potentially room for more normal residential properties to be built, it should just be a fact of life that it could happen. End of story.

ILW

abaxas wrote: »

And lose. You have no right to a view.

Probably, but I would go down fighting and use every legal means possible to stop it.

suki1001

We have a mill, that was disused and it has been beautifully restored into flats and some houses. I am rather pleased it has been used for this and the conversion is very sympathetic to the style of the mill. The problem seems to be over the last few weeks. A lot of the flats are tennanted by people who have issues. A lot are from city centres. I don't actually have a problem with this. However with this change has come a lot of crime. The local pub has shut down because of problems with drugs, before that they'd had to employ bouncers (it's a village !!!!!!), the local shop has had loads of thefts (they'd had only two accounts the 27 yrs they'd had it before that). There's been a burnt out car and someone was attacked. I'm quite happy for people with issues to come over, however I'm not quite sure how they gets sorted out so the issues in the village get dealt with. I don't believe this village is full of nimbys, but at the same time, when the crime rate in your area goes up enormously, I can kind of see why people have concerns.

RenovationMan

DervProf wrote: »

True, but I do see a lot of farmland that is not being used to grow food.

If we are going to use our farmland for food, lets do it.

Often land is left fallow in order to avoid the build up of pathogens and pests and to allow nitrogen levels to normalise. Interesting how city folk see and empty field and think it's a waste, when actually it's just good land management.

2sides2everystory

RenovationMan wrote: »

As far as population growth is concerned, the first step would be to stop paying childrens tax credit, family tax credits and child benefit. That at least would stop the gravy train of benefit families with 10 kids. Those of us who work tend to stop breeding at between 1 and 4 kids because they're an expensive pasttime.

They implemented that last year in Denmark. I think any family bigger than 3 kids is no better off than sticking at 3.

homelessskilledworker

atush wrote: »

Am I the only person who thinks that windmills (the new kind that generate power) are actually kind of attractive/beautiful? They have a lovely aspect. you see them all over in France and people actually like them.

Everyone is a Nimby if you are talking about things that will affect your house price.

No you are not the only one, when I see a bunch of them silhouetted on a hill in the early morning I think how large and wonderful they look. The minute someone actually gets off there backsides and makes an eco project work someone has to kick off, and lets face it, as usual it's all about "HOUSE PRICES", nothing else.

These people would be happy if we had dozens of nuclear plants or coal generated electricity spewing out tons of black smoke as long as it never interfered with their picture postcard sterile lives.

ILW

homelessskilledworker wrote: »

No you are not the only one, when I see a bunch of them silhouetted on a hill in the early morning I think how large and wonderful they look. The minute someone actually gets off there backsides and makes an eco project work someone has to kick off, and lets face it, as usual it's all about "HOUSE PRICES", nothing else.

These people would be happy if we had dozens of nuclear plants or coal generated electricity spewing out tons of black smoke as long as it never interfered with their picture postcard sterile lives.

I think the nuclear power station at Dungeness has a certain beauty to it. It does produce enough power for around a million homes though.

homelessskilledworker

ILW wrote: »

I would fight tooth and nail to stop the building of a load of "affordable" chav boxes on the heathland opposite my house.

Good, I would be more than happy to oblige with your little hissy fit, unless what you call a fight is turning up at the village hall with a bunch of over privilaged chinless wonders crying about the prospect of living next to those "wotton working class types"