In a new series, CapX is celebrating the way our planning system tries its very best to save the country from affordable housing or decent infrastructure. This week, it’s something slightly different, as we explore a triptych of Nimbyism… Where are we off to this week? The darkest recesses of the Nimby soul. Is that […]
So which glamorous destination within an easy commute of your flat are we off to this week, dare I ask? Hackney? Finsbury Park? Well that just shows what you know, oh alter ego of little faith, because this time we’re nowhere near London. Instead, it’s Henleaze, a suburb roughly three miles north of central Bristol. […]
Where? New Ferry on the Wirral, just across the Mersey from South Liverpool. What’s there now? A car park. Haven’t we done car parks before? Yes, but wait for it. Alright, alright, I’ll restrain my long-suffering sigh, I’m waiting. Who’s trying to build what? The joint project between Wirral council and the Regenda Group would […]
In a new series, CapX is celebrating the people trying their damndest to save the country from affordable housing or decent infrastructure. This week, some people who really, really like wild swimming… Where is it? Well, funny story- Please tell me it’s not East London, where you just so happen to live, again. I can’t […]
Where? Faversham in north Kent, just under 50 miles out of London. What’s there now? Faversham itself is a medieval market town, which promises ‘cutting-edge art, inventive cuisine, funky cultural quarters [and] chic sleep-spots’, whatever they are. The site in question, though, doesn’t offer any of that: it’s a couple of fields on the town’s […]
In a new series, CapX is celebrating the way our planning system tries its very best to save the country from affordable housing or decent infrastructure. This week, the case of proposed housing in Milton Keynes… Where? Milton Keynes. What are they planning to build there? More Milton Keynes! According to the council’s latest bodice-ripping […]
In a new series, CapX is celebrating the way our planning system tries its very best to save the country from affordable housing or decent infrastructure. This week, the case of the Cockfosters car park… Where? Cockfosters, the end of the Piccadilly Line, and official funniest Tube station. What’s there now? The car park attached […]
Where? West Burton, a once thriving medieval village in Bassetlaw. It went into terminal decline after the River Trent changed its course, and was finally abandoned some time in the 19th century. So what’s there now? A power station. Hang on, didn’t we do power stations last week? We did – I’m touched you remember […]
In a new series, CapX is celebrating the way our planning system tries its very best to save the country from affordable housing or decent infrastructure. This week, the Green Party’s confusing relationship with solar energy… Where are we off to this week? Rutland. Oh goodie, as a creepily obsessive fan of the work of […]
For this week’s Nimby Watch, the curious case of a development in Stratford, the Nimbys of Richmond and a view of St Paul’s Cathedral. Click here to read the rest of Jonn Elledge’s columns. Where are we off to this week? Stratford. Between the Olympic Park and Westfield. Oh East London again, how novel. What’s […]
In a new series, CapX is celebrating the way our planning system tries its very best to save the country from affordable housing or decent infrastructure. This week, the case of Abingdon’s reservoir… Where? A slice of Oxfordshire, just southeast of Abingdon. What’s there now? Almost nothing: Google Maps suggests the presence of a flight […]
In a new series, CapX is celebrating the way our planning system tries its very best to save the country from affordable housing or decent infrastructure. This week, the strange case of Lorimer Village and Tesco’s ‘Toxic Towers’… Where is it? Next to the Elizabeth line station in Goodmayes, out in the badlands where east […]
In the run up to an election in which housing is likely to be a major faultline, CapX will be celebrating the way our planning system is working to save the country from the blight of affordable housing or decent infrastructure. Every week or so Jonn Elledge will be examining a particular case in which […]
