tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post3930945440971153325..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: NIMBYs Of The WeekMark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-60089142738579160902013-09-20T09:36:34.820+01:002013-09-20T09:36:34.820+01:00"I don't think it matters exactly where.&..."I don't think it matters exactly where."<br /><br />Yes it does, it took me bloody ages to find it. <br /><br />"he says they won't build housing near the river (and let us hope he is correct)"<br /><br />Well there's no underestimating the power of incompetence, but since those floods of a few years back, I would have thought that most potential buyers know that insurance companies don't like houses next to streams and rivers and I would have thought that Redrow know this too.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-57784749023739932812013-09-20T07:22:27.537+01:002013-09-20T07:22:27.537+01:00Bayard,
That's the trick that the homeys alwa...Bayard,<br /><br />That's the trick that the homeys always pull. They always try to make out that any development is like knocking down the hanging gardens of Babylon.<br /><br />In Swindon, they came up with the term "Front Garden" to mean "the empty fallow fields next to the M4".<br /><br />And in reality, of course councils don't actually build on fields of orchids or whatever, because even non-homeys want those protecting. And it's not like there's a shortage of fields in most places.Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-58049375831408492482013-09-20T07:09:13.811+01:002013-09-20T07:09:13.811+01:00B, the field is round there somewhere, I don't...B, the field is round there somewhere, I don't think it matters exactly where.<br /><br />W42, B is the expert, he says they won't build housing near the river (and let us hope he is correct).Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-86657513814401664712013-09-19T23:23:38.738+01:002013-09-19T23:23:38.738+01:00Putting houses by the river doesn't sound wond...Putting houses by the river doesn't sound wonderfully clever to me.Woodsy42https://www.blogger.com/profile/12355671210161625647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-20012352993090599932013-09-19T22:03:36.163+01:002013-09-19T22:03:36.163+01:00"OK, here's that field marked on a map&qu..."OK, here's that field marked on a map"<br /><br />What you've marked appears to be Holywell Garage. If you want the actual Holy Well, search for Holywell Road and extend it, like Redrow are proposing across the field and the well is in the little rectangular enclosure to the west.<br />This article is a classic, with both sides spouting the usual bollocks. I guess that the field concerned is the brown one between the houses and the well, in which case it's not "a place where people love to walk and sit by the river", that's the next field down, the long, thin one, which is probably being left untouched, because a) it's right by the river and therefore liable to flood and b) leaving it enhances the value of the new houses.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-11949893974850802102013-09-19T20:13:07.177+01:002013-09-19T20:13:07.177+01:00Kj, yes, I fully agree.
So when they build the ne...Kj, yes, I fully agree.<br /><br />So when they build the new houses which have "stolen" the nice view, they should offer to sell them to the people whose view has been stolen.<br /><br />The people who like a view can move three hundred metres to the new houses with a view, and the building company then sells the old houses instead.<br /><br />Oh... there is no need for such a silly complicated system. The people who already own houses in that village are free to sell their own houses on the market and then buy a new one anyway. That way they make a small profit or loss and keep the lovely view.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-58611949790538466662013-09-19T19:44:01.935+01:002013-09-19T19:44:01.935+01:00Being all rational about it doesn´t work. The poin...Being all rational about it doesn´t work. The point is that it´s the view from <i>their</i> window, or the fields right outside <i>their</i> house that might be affected. Doesn´t matter if there´s an ocean of fields behind the new development. It can never go away, because <i>they</i> have a house now, end of.Kjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13530243002915410700noreply@blogger.com