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Houses or greenbelt?
HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”
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You're on a hiding to nothing on that one in this neck of the woods.
Mrs LM has spent the afternoon parading a horse in front of our local Sainsbury's for charity. Without the horse, well pony actually, hardly anything would have been raised.
I'm all for new houses, but not in "Horse Country", where well-off people live.
On a nice summer's day, you can wander freely through Epping Forest, ending up at "The Owl" for a nice pint, sitting outside. It is generally silent save for the frequent "clip clop" of Tarquin and Henrietta as they walk astride their ponies along the road outside, followed by their mother, Samantha, on her large grey.....
The only interruption might be the taking off of a police helicopter just over the road, but you can put up with this knowing that in all likelihood, they are helping to pounce upon some miscreant from Romford who has stolen a car and is speeding up the M11......
How could you possibly encourage the alternative of sitting in the same pub, listening to the noise of rusty 18 year old Skodas from the nearby "affordable housing estate" as they screech to a halt to bring in their 4 ultra-loud misbehaved kids into the pub, who can do nothing but run around screeching at the top of their voices, while their parents simply compare tattoos, stuff themselves with burgers, and glance at the cutlary, the use of which has always confounded them....
This would simply be an abomination and severe abuse of planning laws which are there to protect rich people. We are only where we are because idiot politicians chose to demolish every "Nelson Mandella Towers" in the country instead of giving them a lick of paint and stuffing them full of HB claimants.
Build upwards not outwards I say.
Leave innocent horses alone to graze in the lush paddocks of rural England, to listen only to the neighing of their companions, and the baa-ing of the nearby sheep and moo-ing of the cows. Build the 'affordable homes' 15 miles away and if, in any way, the residents wish to appreciate the greenbelt, then let them get Wonga loans and buy a telescope and study it from the 14th floor 15 miles away. Or watch 'Countryfile' on their super-50" HD Televisions in every room......0 -
LOL. It's in a different area of the forum, but you still use the same flawed statistics, which it seems the majority are pointing out to you, but you carry on regardless!
By page four, you are being almost heckled, but still carry on
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The poll is 64% in favour of retaining greenbelt.
I want some and I want it now.
Bit like the kids when they were young, "are we there yet"/ "he's got one I want one"."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »By page four, you are being almost heckled, but still carry on
I'm nothing if not persistent... “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »I'm nothing if not persistent...
Nothing wrong with being persistent, but I usually sober up a bit before posting here....0 -
Loughton_Monkey wrote: »Nothing wrong with being persistent, but I usually sober up a bit before posting here....
Only a slight bit :eek:'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0 -
we need a million new homes now preferably most of them social housing and even though i live slap bang in the middle of green belt i couldnt give a fook where they build them,then after theyve built a million they can build another million and another0
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we need a million new homes now preferably most of them social housing and even though i live slap bang in the middle of green belt i couldnt give a fook where they build them,then after theyve built a million they can build another million and another
Wow!
Given that you found a way of getting a house in the middle of green belt, you ought to tell us all how you did it.0 -
Locally it is proposed that 1 small house is built on an empty plot in a perfectly normal street, the furthest complaint so far is from about half a mile away, the complainee says that currently there is a gap through which they can see....the houses on the other side of the street 30m further away and that the development would thus impact on their human rights. As someone who thinks we need to be building almost any where we can to meet the housing shortage I don't know whether to laugh or cry.I think....0
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Loughton_Monkey wrote: »Wow!
Given that you found a way of getting a house in the middle of green belt, you ought to tell us all how you did it.
that would be telling -)0
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