Nimby Watch

Nimby Watch

Nimby Watch: The Green Party’s solar problem

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 […]

Housing

Nimby Watch: The scourge of St Paul’s

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 […]

Policy

Nimby Watch: Abingdon’s aquatic Nimbys

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 […]

Housing

Nimby Watch: Tesco’s ‘toxic towers’

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 […]

Housing

Introducing: Nimby Watch

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 […]

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