From This Is Bristol:
Jill Britten, joint chair of Whitchurch Village Action Group, said: "It's all on green belt land. If it goes ahead, there will be no definition between Whitchurch and Stockwood – the area would just become one big suburb of Bristol. The overriding problem with this site is also the traffic. With 340 homes, you could have up to 700 cars and that doesn't take into account all the ancillary vehicles such as dustcarts, delivery vans and so on."
She said it would be much better to build new homes in or near places such as Midsomer Norton, Radstock or Peasedown St John where it would easier to absorb homes.
Here's a picture of those NIMBYs with The Hallowed Greenbelt behind them, stretching all the way to the horizon...
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Friday, 22 October 2010
It's behind you!
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I used to live round that part of the world, so I can still remember them whining about there not being enough bus services because no-one wanted to use them, about how the only shop was closing for lack of use, the pub was closing down, etc, etc.
Beauty!
There will be another story soon by the folks at Midsomer Norton, Radstock or Peasedown St John saying to build them in Whitchurch. Its normal. See it all the time. State this to them. Get hammered.
The thing they should worry about is making sure ALL the infrastructure gets built and all the empty homes get occupied. Land values would rise because on both counts the community would be more desirable
Of course if there was a Land Value Tax house prices would rise even further. Whats not to like?
I was in the HoC last night and I asked John Cruddas MP about all the usual earned vs unearned incomes etc. He said: "yeah were gonna put LVT in the new plan, what's the big deal, its just another tax"... Oh dear, that's really going to get adopted then right?
*ukin twat.
Whitchurch is obviously desperatly pretending to be "a village" in "the countryside" and not be part of Bristol, which it really is. No doubt all those people in the picture pride themselves in living in a "village" and not in the suburbs. What would be interesting would be if the Local Authority decided to make the two fields between Whitchurch and the hell that is Bristol into a public park, thereby welding Whitchurch to Bristol in exactly the same way as housing would. What would the NIMBYs come up with then?
BFOD, that's what Home-Owner-Ism is all about. You keep all the benefits that accrue to you and whine about the inevitable downsides.
RS, agreed on Cruddas. The one who came closest to 'getting it' was Andy Burnham, who at least talked about replacing other taxes.
B, then the Whitchurch NIMBYs would complain about all the undesirables coming to use the park, 'extra pressure on local roads' etc.
Frikin' NIMBYS, all over 50s. Probably retired at 55/60 by working in woolworths on the till.
How dare they protest about houses being built for the future generations, what a cheek. We need to start an anti NIMBY protest group where we younguns turn up and disrupt there protests.
KS, the people in that picture are all over 50s, but you'll find that most people become NIMBYs the minute they buy a house or flat.
So politically they always have the upper hand, firstly because 68% of households are owner-occupiers, and secondly, if there is a local vote, it is people who ALREADY live there who vote - and not the people who WOULD be living there if more housing were built.
Anyways, Land Value Tax, that'll sort them out.
kwiksurveys: I think you will find from a very kwik survey, that most folk over 50 know the difference between there and their too.
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