tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post3349236070420917857..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: NIMBYs gonna NIMBY: How opponents of housing operateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-17760211648061414262021-08-08T21:36:01.351+01:002021-08-08T21:36:01.351+01:00Housing is a pure supply & demand equation ove...Housing is a pure supply & demand equation overall, yet all the focus is on influencing only the supply-side.<br />Any ideas for reducing the demand-side? Address that and all the contentious issues of process outlined would evaporate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-74695503533779797062021-07-17T00:24:45.531+01:002021-07-17T00:24:45.531+01:00I laughed recently when Tom Shakespeare (comedian)...I laughed recently when Tom Shakespeare (comedian) had 10 minutes on Radio 4 to make the case for regulation and said red tape prevented ugly buildings being erected on green belt. He's clearly never seen a farm in a long time. Nor aware enough that the regulations he praises prevent beautiful buildings going up on green belt.<br /><br />And I cry a little when I see people who have paved their garden or put down an artificial lawn. Clearly revealed preferences indicate there is unmet demand for housing without lawns which the market is not making available.<br /><br />And I snigger when a work colleague shows me a picture of agricultural monocolture (Little Ayton if interested) which is to be built on and complains that there is more than sufficient brown-field in the area. Hey, that monoculture is brown-field both visually for half the year and definitionally as agriculture is an industry.<br /><br />Excellent article by Simon.Andrew Careyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08442714147160589939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-10931698995264287572021-07-06T12:29:59.870+01:002021-07-06T12:29:59.870+01:00Dead inner city space - at worst clear it. If a de...Dead inner city space - at worst clear it. If a derelict site depresses values then clearing them should increase local values - maybe to the point where some development does make sense.<br /><br />Agree 100% with the article. Question is how you clear that political blockage. I think campaigners should only be allowed to argue against one development if they argue in favour of something else - i.e. force the discussion to be what we build not if we build. Need to find game theory style ways to remove peoples quasi-veto rights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-37559671613886953092021-07-05T18:54:30.069+01:002021-07-05T18:54:30.069+01:00What do you suggest shoukd be done with derelict i...What do you suggest shoukd be done with derelict innner city sites? If building private-sector houses is not economic as you argue very cogently, what are the alternaive uses? It cannot be right to leave them derelict, which merely serves to depress local values, as well as being socially damaging. . Ben Dhonauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730037990590682794noreply@blogger.com