[The Weeping Angel]

Ha, Ha, Ha

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/column ... evelopment

Three local First Nations have expanded their plans for the Jericho Lands, with a new vision unveiled Friday that is less like a typical real estate development and more like an entirely new urban neighbourhood.

The new concept by the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), collectively known as the MST Partnership, and the Canada Lands Company, envisions 13,000 homes for the property, which takes up about a third of a square kilometre.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is a cracker. Shows how the "brownfield first" thing is just a reflex against any housing.

Lots more stuff like this would be good.

[Youngian]

The sort of thing you’d expect a ‘serial entrepreneur’ to know.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[Tubby Isaacs]

[The Weeping Angel]

My all time favourite is where they object to a devlopment because the dark materials used would ruin the street scene.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The planners recommended acceptance.

Unless this is a bit of tactical hardballing, this looks like a very bad decision.

[The Weeping Angel]

Some letters in the Gaurdian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... ing-crisis

There's this corker

Could I encourage the Guardian to avoid “nimby” as a blanket term for those who object to plans that will erode or destroy green spaces (Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey, 15 September)? Nimby has long been used to disparage serious environmentalists whose concerns, far from being restricted to their immediate surroundings, are based on an understanding of the dangers besetting the planet as a whole. I might add that, far from stopping the exodus, Labour’s ill-advised yimby/nimby discourse will propel many more of their erstwhile supporters into the Green party.

Don't call us NIMBYS says a person advocating NIMBYism.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is also good.

Keir Starmer’s policies seem to be a developers’ charter, unleashing a rash of identical estates of four- and five-bedroomed houses on choice agricultural land, due to be swiftly bought up by landlords, keen to cash in on sky-high rents.

Or, as we used to call them, homes for families with a couple of kids, where they want to live. Greater supply makes buy to let less attractive as an investment. Nice Simon Jenkins line in snobbery too. Ooh, these awful houses that all look the same.

And the homes don't all have to go on "choice agricultural land". Councils will have to build homes, but that could be densification of urban bits. The Man from the Ministry won't send them a snotty note saying "sorry, Green Belt destruction only!"

[Youngian]

Don't know where all this development land is even for a small single storey dwelling. Near empty regions without crops like west Cumbria aren't brimming with offers either.

[mattomac]

Thing is, the reaction to getting rid of buying your own council home ended up in screaming outrage from the Conservatives.

Labour just might as well do it, they won’t be getting 10 years if this hatchet job continues.