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    Just one in four Britons are Nimbys – but most think their neighbours are

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    1. SixRoundsTilDeath on

      What’s a nimby again? I stopped remembering pokemon names after Red/Blue.

    2. Wolf_Cola_91 on

      The problem is the other 3/4 aren’t going to turn up to council meetings about developments. 

      Because they aren’t petty vindictive wankers with nothing better to do. 

    3. Electricbell20 on

      It’s always been a loud minority type situation. I don’t think anyone thought otherwise.

    4. Emotional-Ebb8321 on

      Well, if you count two doors up and down, you’ve got a 70% chance of having a nimby close enough to be factor. So the headline isn’t an unreasonable take.

    5. laredocronk on

      > Almost half of Britons support housebuilding in their area,

      Well yeah, most people support housebuilding in the abstract.

      But when someone proposed building some houses *next to them*, suddenly they find all kinds of reasons why, even though they’re fully in favour of housebuilding, that specific proposal is bad.

      Edit: ITT, people explaining why *their* opposition to housebuilding near *them* is completely valid and justified, unlike other people’s opposition which is pure NIMBYism.

    7. CorruptedFlame on

      I mean… If one in 4 Britons are nimbus then most people DO have them as neighbours lol.

    8. RedditWishIHadnt on

      Tell them a traveller site is going in nearby and watch that number increase…. Ok, I WILL have that wind turbine/solar farm/toxic waste dump instead.

    9. kardiogramm on

      I don’t mind Nimbyism when it’s sensible. Too often though they block much needed infrastructure projects and just complain about businesses trying to open something that will provide work and services the place needs. They do a lot of damage.

    10. Dave_guitar_thompson on

      I saw a recent planning proposal online for a local infrastructure hub in a place which was perfectly placed. There were no shops in this area, it was near a main road and it covered everything, a supermarket, a hotel, a park and ride, drive thrus, and quite a few shops etc.

      The vast majority of people in the comments were overwhelmingly in favour of it and excited about it.

      But then there was this one douchebag who basically said it should include a doctors surgery and a dentist or it wasn’t serving the people in the community; they were complaining about a lack of infrastructure in a literal infrastructure hub. They were building exactly the things local people wanted and all he could do was complain.

      And yet the people in favour are not the ones who will turn up to a meeting; it will be that bellend.

    11. BigHowski on

      I know for a fact mine are because we’ve got 16 houses being put up next door and I got in to conversations about it.

      Bloody stupid, they’ve developed on a rat infested bit of scrub land but you know ………….. illegal immigrants are gonna get them all or something

    12. hereforcontroversy on

      That translates to 25% of every community having those annoying people screaming until they are blue in the face. How exhausting

    13. send_in_the_clouds on

      The press love to vilify our neighbours like it’s Derek from next door that’s causing the housing crisis.

      We have a system that incentivises land banking by major developers as their investment keeps going up the more they hoard. We need to tax this unused land to stop this, use it or sell it, otherwise you will pay taxes until you do.

      Sadly it’s these same companies that lobby our governments to turn a blind eye to this. We all need to be shouting about this as it’s not right.

    14. anchoredwunderlust on

      A quarter of people is quite a lot. Many political changes are made with less

    15. Dark_Foggy_Evenings on

      I haven’t got anything against nimbys as such but I wouldn’t want em living round here.

    16. philster666 on

      Just?! 25% is a huge portion of the population. And that’s averaged over the country. I live in the South East we’ve likely got a higher percentage than that

    17. EffectiveNew8489 on

      NIMBY Boomers have done more damage to the UK than the Luftwaffe ever dreamed of.

    20. Chriswheela on

      I get both sides, you’d be ignorant to not be. Some stuff is utterly rediculous. But I understand them not wanting another 300 house built in a town that is already over populated over run by vape shops, barbor shops and uber eats clogging up the place. Not to mention more waiting times at the GP and no where to park at the hospital because the town hasn’t grown for them.
      Saying Naa to wind farms is just stupid though

    21. Sudden_Star_5130 on

      Why do some think all nimbys are boomers? Just a question im not a boomer by the way far from it.

    22. Finerfings on

      This is actually a great way of finding out people’s true views on stuff, ask them what their neighbours think.

      Most people will be reticent to express an unpopular view, but will be happy to say their neighbours hold that view. 

      There was a French trader that made a lot of money betting on trump winning the recent election with this strategy. Most polls had Harris winning because people were shy about saying that they would vote for him. French matey commissioned a poll asking people who they thought their neighbours would vote for and the result was much closer to reality than any polls. 

    23. Postdiluvian27 on

      NINANIMBYBMNA

      No, I’m Not A NIMBY, But My Neighbours Are

      Rolls off the tongue

    25. Weird-Statistician on

      There are nimbys who just don’t want anything changing and there are nimbys who want something back for the community if developers build thousands of houses or warehouses.

      Having a load of traffic, road surfaces destroyed and thousands of extra people fighting over the same doctors surgery and schools is a valid reason to object if nothing is done about it.

    27. South_Leek_5730 on

      Want to get rid of NIMBY’s? It’s very easy. Rather than just submitting applications to build houses submit the infrastructure changes that will be made at the same time. You can’t expect people to just trust you to sort the roads out and services required for all these new houses.

      Not difficult is it?

      Edit: Then they have no objection.

    28. AvatarIII on

      If 1 in 4 are nimbys you have a 50% chance of living next to one, and an even higher chance of living close to one.