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mellowdude wrote:

ohec wrote:
What a shame that people have to be so selfish and that is what it all boils down too,the not in my back yard or the thats where i walk my dog and so on, and these people are so ashamed of their own feelings they then try to conceal the fact by talking about boundaries or some other rubbish. The fact that these houses are desperately needed is neither here nor there as long as the protesters already have a nice house, the fact that no councillors turned up say's it all as long as you sit ON the fence you can't get into any trouble.

I would guess that everywhere you go in Southampton or the surrounding areas there would be no area of green land that someone wouldn't object to building on.

It must be hard for councils to meet our housing needs when most, if not all of their proposals are met with objection.

I do understand why people object to new houses being built near them, but what else can be done to tackle this?

I like how the protesters never suggest any alternative sites for the new houses, they just don't want them built near them.

Yes its very difficult for councils if as in this case they want to build on the periphery they get slated by the nimby's, if they try to build in the countryside they get slated by the countryside alliance people. Whether we like it or not this country is seriously overpopulated so we must build thousands & thousands of houses all over the country, and with house prices becoming increasingly too expensive for many social housing is going to be in even greater demand as time goes by. So they can protest as much as they like it won't make one little bit of difference."