Sean Bean makes donation to Sheffield green belt campaign
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98nj8y4p21o
Posted by insomnimax_99
Sean Bean makes donation to Sheffield green belt campaign
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98nj8y4p21o
Posted by insomnimax_99
10 Comments
He doesn’t even live there!
These NIMBYs are literally choking this country to death. I actually can’t stand it.
How nice that he’s spared a thought for his hometown community in Handsworth. I hope the outcome is the best one for Handsworth – whether or not the development goes ahead.
>From the article:
>”It’s the only bit of greenery really around that area. It would be a tragedy if that’s all built over. It’s the people’s land, **there’s plenty of other places to go**.”
And this is always the crux of the issue, people believing that there’s “plenty” of other places, which is always code for “anywhere but here”. The trouble is if everywhere says “not here” then there isn’t really any other places.
Perhaps instead of saying “not here” Sean could use a tiny fraction of his enormous wealth to show these plenty of other places – since he clearly cares so much about it all.
His name is inconsistent.
It should be pronounced Seen Been
Or Shawn bawn.
Pick one Sean!
Nice one, need to stop the Orcs paving over the Shire.
Honestly NIMBYism is getting right on my tits these days. Back where I used to live in Chester there is a huge chunk of land between two main roads and a railway line. It’s shit land every now and then has some low quality crops on it (but most of the year its pasture), it’s impossible to access because of its locked in nature and you can barely bloody see it from anywhere. In other words, its the perfect place to build a house or two. [you can see it here.](https://www.google.com/maps/search/53.190970,+-2.846840)
So of course a bunch of parish council have got together in a [‘green alliance’](https://np.christleton-pc.gov.uk/chester-greenbelt-alliance/) to stop it all. Like, where else is as perfect as that for a bunch of new houses? Right next to main roads, walkable into the city down a lovely canal.. what more do you want?
These protestors are very disingenuous when talking about the % of land that the council has in their local plan for housing development, they’ll say “why don’t we build on brownfield sites first?”, but if you look at the council’s plans, you can see basically every brownfield site in Sheffield is in the local plan for housing development.
I tried to take the greenbelt from Frodo! Forgive me!
I just think of them as privilege belts at this point. They just serve homeowners and investors at this point.
The greenbelt is a broken idea that’s making things worse. It’s preventing towns naturally expanding. This artificially inflates house prices within the town and especially at the edges where it breeds many NIMBYs.
The effect of the green belt is to limit the size of the town. The planning system won’t allow building upwards. The results is house prices are pushed up within the town, pushing poorer people and families out of the town.
The jobs that poor people do in the town still need doing though, however all these people now have to travel from outside the town, which incurs a further financial/time penalty on the poorest and greatly increases the traffic in to, and out of the town.
Greenbelts are really Green-nooses that are choking towns. Trouble is, all the rich NIMBYs, like Sean here, will fight tooth and nail, and can afford the time to be politically active, and vote for local politicians who will prevent anything impacting their house prices, especially those on the edge of the greenbelt. Greenbelts make the environment worse, not better. They are protected by green-washing at the behest of a privileged few to maintain their asset prices.