| Not a serious country 13:05 - Sep 6 with 7101 views | itfcjoe |
Had my weekly email from EADT, and top story is about plans for a quarry being overturned in Bentley
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24551230.bentley-quarry-off-a12-suffolk-quashed-lega
Then driving back through Little Bromley and it's full of signs objecting to a new sub station, with signs like 'SAVE TENDRING', 'SAVE FRINTON' and 'SAVE CLACTON' and you just think save Clacton from what? Having more jobs on it's doorstep opposed to farmland in a village a few miles away from it.
Labour has plans to build masses of houses, but everyone objects to everything everywhere - people moan about lack of housing but don't want any built near them, people moan about lack of infrastructure but improvements are rejected by local residences.
Nothing can get done, the country is just in a form of stasis - no one willing to concede anything, the courts used to frustrate things for so long that by the time things are done they aren't fit fur purpose any more.
I wouldn't suggest we go like China, where peoples homes are bulldozed and they are told to get out - but what can be done about all the NIMBYism we have? |  |
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| Not a serious country on 12:00 - Sep 7 with 445 views | stonojnr |
Bentley woods is one of the last ancient woodlands around this area, it has and provides for alot of bio diversity, supports wildlife that you know in turn keeps land fertile so we can grow crops and produce food to eat.
digging a gigantic hole in the ground kind of destroys that chain of support in the eco system, adds a bundle of hgvs onto existing congested junction and creates alot of pollution.
you might think the latter option is better because it involves plans to build things, than the former, but Id disagree with that, maintaining the wood is much better than destroying it. |  | | |
| Not a serious country on 12:13 - Sep 7 with 419 views | leitrimblue |
| Not a serious country on 13:26 - Sep 6 by itfcjoe |
In our industry we always say that the difference between a conservationist and a developer is that a developer wants to build a house in the woods whereas a conservationist already has one |
Surely a better way to describe it would be a developer wants to make money from building houses over our last wooded areas while conservationists would rather they didn't |  | | |
| Not a serious country on 12:24 - Sep 7 with 409 views | NthQldITFC |
| Not a serious country on 12:13 - Sep 7 by leitrimblue |
Surely a better way to describe it would be a developer wants to make money from building houses over our last wooded areas while conservationists would rather they didn't |
Not only is it better, it's actually honest and accurate. |  |
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