Oboogie wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2026 9:56 pmIn absolute numbers, maybe, but try wrestling with the lack of social housing in an area blighted by over-tourism where NIMBY incomers will try and stop new housing estates using every delaying tactic available.Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2026 7:35 pm That's why the debate in Scotland and Wales is different. There's not an alternative waiting to do that.But it's England where the need for social housing is greatest.
Killer Whale wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2026 8:49 amI'm very aware of that problem as it's a local crisis (in South West England) just as it is in Wales, parts of Scotland and elsewhere in England. I'm not sure what the answer is but nimbyism is a UK wide trait.Oboogie wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2026 9:56 pmIn absolute numbers, maybe, but try wrestling with the lack of social housing in an area blighted by over-tourism where NIMBY incomers will try and stop new housing estates using every delaying tactic available.Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2026 7:35 pm That's why the debate in Scotland and Wales is different. There's not an alternative waiting to do that.But it's England where the need for social housing is greatest.
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2026 11:16 am Can the Assembly do anything about the planning rules? Even if they're changed, I guess it's also about money, which Wales doesn't have that much of.Parliament. Yes, planning is devolved aside from national interest and security matters (nuclear power stations and army bases, for example). It's also being addressed at the other end with unoccupied housing being compulsorily purchased and, of course, holiday home multipliers on Council Tax. Plaid have a lot more incentive to get this moving considering their heartlands are in very different areas to the previous Labour governments who seemed keen to say the right things and put the right structures in place, but drag their heels on implementation on the ground.
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