This week, Nimby Watch is in Bath, where councillors are at loggerheads over the concept of safety. I dislike Bath, and do not think it agrees with me, and yet Bath is to be my home? Aren’t you full of surprises? I didn’t have you down as a fan of Jane Austen, and here you […]
This week, Nimby Watch is in Hendon, a settlement since Roman times and which has had its name – Anglo-Saxon for ‘high hill’ – since at least 1005. Alright. Hendon. Why? Let’s show a bit of enthusiasm for Hendon, shall we? You’re clearly not an aviation history buff – Hendon was the first home of […]
This week, Nimby Watch is in central London… Okay then, where are we this time? We’re in Belgravia, one of London’s swankiest neighbourhoods. Don’t say I never take you anywhere nice. Okay, fine. But neither one of us can afford anything here, as well you know, and I’m including coffee when I say that. Well… […]
This week, Nimby Watch is in for a reckoning… Hey, you. Excuse me? Are you talking to me? Yes, you. I’ve got something you should read. Hang on a minute, shouldn’t you be asking me questions? Are you breaking the format? Damn right I am. Every fortnight, you take me somewhere in the UK, show […]
This week, Nimby Watch is in Danson Park, Bexley, in South East London. But why? I see we’re in a park! You never bring me anywhere nice. It’s a particularly nice park, too! Danson Park, which celebrated its 100th birthday last year, has a lake – which hosts boating and water sports activities – football […]
This week, Nimby Watch is in Winstanley, in the historical county of Lancashire. But, like certain other people in Winstanley right now, we’ve got our eyes on Westminster… Okay then, why are we in Winstanley. Where exactly is Winstanley, anyway? Well, if you’re part of the southern Westminster elite, you might say that Winstanley is […]
This week, Nimby Watch is in south-east London, just for a change… Alright then, where have you brought me this week? We’re in rapidly-gentrifying Peckham, in south-east London. Specifically, we’re by the Aylesham Centre, a shopping centre that has clearly seen better days, and they definitely weren’t recent. Hang on a second, haven’t we been […]
This week, Nimby Watch is in Bushey, a town near Watford that’s been around since the Domesday Book… I see we’re in Watford. What brings us here, then? Hang on for a second, we’re in Bushey – it’s been its own town for 1,000 years, which is long enough that we shouldn’t just smush it […]
In this special edition of Nimby Watch, we’re visiting the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Hang on, are we in the posh bit of London? You never bring me anywhere nice. We are indeed in Chelsea! Right in the heart of zone one, still one of London’s most desirable postcodes, and, of course, with […]
This week, Nimby Watch is… everywhere. Or at least, it’s in ‘nature, parks and green spaces’ across the country. Right then, where are we going this time? Well, for once, it’s not so much about where we’re going as where the Nimbys are headed. That sounds ominous. It is! A coalition called Vote For Nature […]
This week, Nimby Watch is off to Milton Keynes, a city – yes, it is an actual city – about 50-miles north-west of London. What a treat, right? Okay then, why have you brought me to Milton Keynes. Am I being punished in some way? Hey, that doesn’t seem very nice. What’s wrong with Milton […]
This week’s edition of Nimby Watch comes from the one-time spa town of Epsom – famous for its salts and for its clocktower. So… where are we off to this week? We’re headed to the outskirts of Epsom, a town 14 miles to the south-west of London, not too far from Croydon. Building more houses […]
This week’s edition of Nimby Watch comes to you from the busiest railway station in the country. Want to have a guess where we are before you dive in? Okay then, where are you taking us this week – anywhere nice? We, my friend, are going to Liverpool Street Station, in the City of London. […]
This week’s edition of Nimby Watch comes to you from the under-reported and frankly underrated borough of Islington, North London… I see we’re really pushing out the boat on the Nimby Watch travel budget this week, then? Yes, we are in what is indisputably London’s greatest borough – Islington. And yes, that does happen to […]
It’s another crisp January Nimby Watch, and we are once again going to spend it together a few miles outside the M25, this time in the village of Meppershall. Alright then, so it’s Meppershall this week. What’s there to see here? Honestly, there’s not a great deal going on, and that’s pretty much the point. […]
New year, new Nimbys – it’s the first Nimby Watch of 2026, and we’re kicking off the year in the picturesque surroundings of West Yorkshire. It’s a new year! The world is alive with possibilities; we can create everything anew and afresh – so where shall we start? How about the open market in Huddersfield, […]
It’s the last Nimby Watch of 2025. The taste of snow is in the air (probably). Santa is coming soon. How will we mark the occasion? It’s Christmas! Have we found something suitably festive? A planning dispute over a reindeer enclosure, perhaps? There’s more than a week until Christmas and we’ve both still got work […]
In this edition of Nimby Watch, we take a trip to the quiet – very quiet – village of Chapel-en-le-Frith, in Derbyshire… Okay, what brings us to the Peak District, then? Well, it’s a small town in an idyllic part of the country. For most people, that would be reason enough. For our purposes, it’s […]
In this edition of Nimby Watch, we’re going everywhere and nowhere – we’re on the information superhighway, in cyberspace! Hang on, I was about to ask you where we were going this week, but I’ve read the intro and it sounds like we’re on a 1990s episode of Tomorrow’s World. In a way we are! […]
In this edition of Nimby Watch, we’re off to the People’s Republic of Peckham, handily situated in zone two of London. Right then, where are we looking for Nimbys this week? As ever, we are spoiled for choice – but we’ve headed down to Peckham, where last week a planning inspectorate inquiry kicked off to […]
In this edition of Nimby Watch, we’re off to some industrial wasteland near Brighton, where some homes have been planned, for quite some time… Anywhere nice this week? Not really! We’re in Brighton, which has many lovely attractions – the pier, a pebble beach, chic shops on the Lanes, but we’re not going to any […]
In this week’s Nimby Watch, we’re off to the unspoilt green expanse of… London Fields, a park and neighbourhood in Hackney, East London. Okay, where are we this week, then? We’re in London Fields, an area of East London named for the 30-ish acre park at its core. It’s an area that gentrified so long […]
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