All housing development objections summarised.

Author: graeme

Date: November 3, 2007

by graeme
11-03-07
Mr I'm All Right Jack, you're a local resident, and you're objecting to the proposed housing development on the outskirts of this town. Why?
It might reduce the value of my home - er, sorry, I mean "mumble, mumble, noise, mumble, infrastructure, traffic, mumble, blot on the landscape."
So you expect the town to stop expanding just so you can have a green view out of your window?
We're running out of countryside. Only 89% of this country is green space. With three million new homes, that could drop as low as... erm... 88%!
Forgive me, but how do you imagine your own house got here? It's not a natural part of the landscape, is it? It was built in living memory.
Yes, but that's different. It was built when *I* was aspiring to get on the property ladder, so it's OK.