Nur einer von vier Briten sind Nimbys – aber die meisten denken, dass ihre Nachbarn sind
Just one in four Britons are Nimbys – but most think their neighbours are
Von ThatchersDirtyTaint
Nur einer von vier Briten sind Nimbys – aber die meisten denken, dass ihre Nachbarn sind
Just one in four Britons are Nimbys – but most think their neighbours are
Von ThatchersDirtyTaint
20 Kommentare
What’s a nimby again? I stopped remembering pokemon names after Red/Blue.
The problem is the other 3/4 aren’t going to turn up to council meetings about developments.
Because they aren’t petty vindictive wankers with nothing better to do.
It’s always been a loud minority type situation. I don’t think anyone thought otherwise.
Well, if you count two doors up and down, you’ve got a 70% chance of having a nimby close enough to be factor. So the headline isn’t an unreasonable take.
> Almost half of Britons support housebuilding in their area,
Well yeah, most people support housebuilding in the abstract.
But when someone proposed building some houses *next to them*, suddenly they find all kinds of reasons why, even though they’re fully in favour of housebuilding, that specific proposal is bad.
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I mean… If one in 4 Britons are nimbus then most people DO have them as neighbours lol.
Tell them a traveller site is going in nearby and watch that number increase…. Ok, I WILL have that wind turbine/solar farm/toxic waste dump instead.
I don’t mind Nimbyism when it’s sensible. Too often though they block much needed infrastructure projects and just complain about businesses trying to open something that will provide work and services the place needs. They do a lot of damage.
I saw a recent planning proposal online for a local infrastructure hub in a place which was perfectly placed. There were no shops in this area, it was near a main road and it covered everything, a supermarket, a hotel, a park and ride, drive thrus, and quite a few shops etc.
The vast majority of people in the comments were overwhelmingly in favour of it and excited about it.
But then there was this one douchebag who basically said it should include a doctors surgery and a dentist or it wasn’t serving the people in the community; they were complaining about a lack of infrastructure in a literal infrastructure hub. They were building exactly the things local people wanted and all he could do was complain.
And yet the people in favour are not the ones who will turn up to a meeting; it will be that bellend.
I know for a fact mine are because we’ve got 16 houses being put up next door and I got in to conversations about it.
Bloody stupid, they’ve developed on a rat infested bit of scrub land but you know ………….. illegal immigrants are gonna get them all or something
That translates to 25% of every community having those annoying people screaming until they are blue in the face. How exhausting
The press love to vilify our neighbours like it’s Derek from next door that’s causing the housing crisis.
We have a system that incentivises land banking by major developers as their investment keeps going up the more they hoard. We need to tax this unused land to stop this, use it or sell it, otherwise you will pay taxes until you do.
Sadly it’s these same companies that lobby our governments to turn a blind eye to this. We all need to be shouting about this as it’s not right.
A quarter of people is quite a lot. Many political changes are made with less
I haven’t got anything against nimbys as such but I wouldn’t want em living round here.
Just?! 25% is a huge portion of the population. And that’s averaged over the country. I live in the South East we’ve likely got a higher percentage than that
NIMBY Boomers have done more damage to the UK than the Luftwaffe ever dreamed of.
I am a NIMBY about trees and other flora. I am not a NIMBY about replacing buildings, carparks, or other built things. I do not really care about tall buildings or the „character“ of architecture.
I don’t mind Nimbys, I just wouldn’t want any near me.
I don’t know what to do with any of that useless information.