In article , Andy Hall
wrote:
Mmmm.... Looking at several of his articles, it strikes me that
there is more than a touch of political motivation.....

No, an appreciation of reality. At a local ward meeting our
Conservative councillors were decrying the fact that an application
they'd refused for demolishing 2 bungalows and replacing them with
flats had been allowed on appeal. The grounds for refusal had been on
the lines of changing the character of the area, not genuine
technical matters. What they should have told the local residents is
what their party was more than happy to tell redundant steelworkers:
that this was market forces at work and they should accept it.

The housebuilders can see that if the Conservatives were to get in,
scrap all Prescott's housing targets, and just leave it to local
councils to decide what was built and where, the result would be - as
the article says - a victory for Nimbyism.

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