You will live in a Starmchevka. And you will be happy.
(This is actually good, though)
tbh the nimby’s are to blame with their unreasonable blocking now total garbage will be allowed.
NIMBYs are part of (not entirely though) the reason we have a housing crisis. I’d be interested to know if there will be behind close doors meetings with property developers, specifically those looking to sell to landlords involved in zoning decisions.
Thankfully the same thing is happening in Canada. NIMBYs have been preventing badly needed homes from being built for far too long on the flimsy basis that it will “ruin the feel of my neighbourhood” and most towns/cities were zoned for single family dwellings.
Provinces have now changed all that by blanket rezoning/pre-approving apartment style buildings thus “forcing” (allowing) the town and city councils to ignore the NIMBYs.
Blaming people who would like to preserve the little patch of countryside near them while ignoring million+ people from who knows where coming to the country every few years is peak r/unitedkingdom
Good, it’s far too easy to block new development.
However, we have the lowest standard of housing in Europe, new builds are almost all shite quality and the developments lack any charm whatsoever. I’d like to see how the government will enforce high building standards and whether unblocking planning permission means I can buy land and build myself or if it’s just big developers.
NIMBYs made the problem so much worse by opposing everything, that the Government was forced to do something as drastic as this. They opposed the good, and the bad to the point of nothing got built no matter the merits.
The news has been so miserable for the last few years, it’s nice to feel optimistic about the government. Finally.
Ignoring the debates on the reasons why we need new housing. What we actually need is new towns. Not more urban sprawl making everyone’s lives worse. My parents live 50m from fields, fields that are now for sale and likely to lead to 600 more houses in a town of 6,200 people. Should the build go ahead the nearest fields will soon be 850m from them, the Greenway on their road removed, and the once cul-de-sac turned into a through road for said 600 houses. They should absolutely be able to protest it.
There’s a difference between a few extra houses being chucked up and some of these mega developments coming through across the south east. Choose a new location outside of current urban centres and build appropriate infrastructure to support it.
Doesn’t work anyway. The council smashed down our community centre, cafe and corner shop to build shitty flats over the last few years. (labour)
NIMBYs ruins housing, migration ruins housing, more houses = less demand blah blah blah
But are we not gonna acknowledge that landlords who own multiple properties and see property as investment aren’t one of the biggest problems too? Or would that hit too close to parliament? There are too many houses in Portsmouth that get bought up and then unofficially sit vacant for 3-4 months a year when the students go back.
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You will live in a Starmchevka. And you will be happy.
(This is actually good, though)
tbh the nimby’s are to blame with their unreasonable blocking now total garbage will be allowed.
NIMBYs are part of (not entirely though) the reason we have a housing crisis. I’d be interested to know if there will be behind close doors meetings with property developers, specifically those looking to sell to landlords involved in zoning decisions.
Thankfully the same thing is happening in Canada. NIMBYs have been preventing badly needed homes from being built for far too long on the flimsy basis that it will “ruin the feel of my neighbourhood” and most towns/cities were zoned for single family dwellings.
Provinces have now changed all that by blanket rezoning/pre-approving apartment style buildings thus “forcing” (allowing) the town and city councils to ignore the NIMBYs.
Blaming people who would like to preserve the little patch of countryside near them while ignoring million+ people from who knows where coming to the country every few years is peak
r/unitedkingdom
Good, it’s far too easy to block new development.
However, we have the lowest standard of housing in Europe, new builds are almost all shite quality and the developments lack any charm whatsoever. I’d like to see how the government will enforce high building standards and whether unblocking planning permission means I can buy land and build myself or if it’s just big developers.
NIMBYs made the problem so much worse by opposing everything, that the Government was forced to do something as drastic as this. They opposed the good, and the bad to the point of nothing got built no matter the merits.
The news has been so miserable for the last few years, it’s nice to feel optimistic about the government. Finally.
Ignoring the debates on the reasons why we need new housing. What we actually need is new towns. Not more urban sprawl making everyone’s lives worse. My parents live 50m from fields, fields that are now for sale and likely to lead to 600 more houses in a town of 6,200 people. Should the build go ahead the nearest fields will soon be 850m from them, the Greenway on their road removed, and the once cul-de-sac turned into a through road for said 600 houses. They should absolutely be able to protest it.
There’s a difference between a few extra houses being chucked up and some of these mega developments coming through across the south east. Choose a new location outside of current urban centres and build appropriate infrastructure to support it.
Doesn’t work anyway. The council smashed down our community centre, cafe and corner shop to build shitty flats over the last few years. (labour)
NIMBYs ruins housing, migration ruins housing, more houses = less demand blah blah blah
But are we not gonna acknowledge that landlords who own multiple properties and see property as investment aren’t one of the biggest problems too? Or would that hit too close to parliament? There are too many houses in Portsmouth that get bought up and then unofficially sit vacant for 3-4 months a year when the students go back.