For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re off to Scotland, where everyone is up in arms about pylons… Right then, where to this time? Picturesque Aberdeenshire, which is becoming a key part of efforts to secure a green new energy future for the UK. Sounds good to me. Who could object to energy independence, […]
For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re off to Leith, just outside Edinburgh, where someone’s attempting to build a mixed-use housing development… Where are we? This week, we’re in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, which was facing the loss of an ‘iconic’ local landmark If you’re suggesting demolishing the castle to build high-density housing, […]
For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re off to Shropshire, where plans are afoot for new homes near Telford… Where are we looking this time, then? We’re over in Lawley, which depending who you ask is either a suburb of Telford or a village a few miles away from it. And what’s being built? […]
‘Nimby Watch’ is back with a new author, and in this week’s edition we’re off to Camberwell in south-east London, where Sadiq Khan is trying to extend the Bakerloo line… Where are we this time, then? Burgess Park, Deptford, and a few other areas of south-east London not currently served by the underground. So, we’re […]
It is with a heavy heart that we publish the final edition of Nimby Watch. Over 32 pieces, Jonn Elledge has exposed the most egregious cases of Nimbyism and shown us why major planning reform is so badly needed. For this last instalment, we’re taking a look at the country at large and the selfishness […]
For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re off to the South West coast, where the locals want to stop a boatload of foreign electricity from coming ashore… Where oh where oh where? North Devon. Lovely place for a holiday. So’s Morocco. Sorry, what? All will become clear. It’s not houses this week, it’s a […]
For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re off to a mystery site in London, where a veteran Lefty is opposing new social housing and student accommodation… Where are we off to this week? I’m not telling you. That seems to present a problem given the format of this column. No, we’re mixing things up […]
For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re taking a look at the work of Simon Jenkins, perhaps the most high-profile Nimby in Britain… Where are we going this week? The pages of The Guardian. That’s a newspaper. It is, yes. You can’t build stuff on the pages of a newspaper. No, you can’t, but […]
For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re off to a village that thinks one more home is one too many… Where this week? Blackheath. Oh, good bit of town that, nice walk up from Greenwich, some lovely pubs. Not that Blackheath. Oh. This is the one that’s in Surrey, rather than the one that […]
Where are we off to this week? Wimbledon, plush south west London suburb and the home of international tennis. And what are they trying to build there? More tennis courts, LOL? Er, yes, actually, that’s exactly what they’re trying to build. So, not houses then? Not houses on this occasion, no. Oh. This is not […]
Where this week? The ancient East Anglian village of Bacton. The Norfolk seaside village? Terminus of a gas pipeline connecting England to the Netherlands? Whose amenities include a village shop, a hotel, Chinese restaurant, kebab house and two cafes? No, not that one, no. This one’s 50 miles to the south west in Mid Suffolk, […]
Where? Redhill, Surrey: one of those places you’ve probably passed through on your way to Gatwick or Brighton, but to which you’ve rarely given a second thought. I’d always, if I’m honest, imagined it as a sort of suburb of Reigate, which only had any independent identity because it’s the bit with the mainline station […]
Where to? Maidenhead, a blue wall Berkshire commuter town about 25 miles west of London. Who wants to build what? Cala Homes would like to create ‘Elizabeth Quarter’, thus providing that town, where the average property price stands at a cool £550,000, with another 1,800 residential properties. I don’t imagine ‘reducing house prices’ is their […]
For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re off to north west London, where councillors are ganging up to keep the housing crisis going… So, where we going this week? To Edgware, in the north west London suburbs. Oh, where the trains go. What’s there now? The Broadwalk Centre, a rather grim low-rise shopping precinct […]
For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re looking at a newly released film which celebrates Nimbyism and demonises developers… Where are we off to today? The woods. Any woods in particular, or-? Well, they’re in Wigan. Oh, up North! Or possibly St Helens. Sorry, what? Or maybe Cheshire? I dunno, somewhere in the North […]
Alright, where to? Mallard Pass, on the Rutland/Lincolnshire border. This sounds familiar. And Gate Burton, which is also in Lincolnshire. Plus some fields near Newmarket, where Suffolk blends into Cambridgeshire. I’m getting a strange sense of deja vu, here. Yes, it’s a few years late, but Ed Miliband’s new golden age has finally arrived. It’s […]
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