Comment on We'll bulldoze local blocks on housing, says Keir Starmer
alchemy88@lemmy.team 8 months ago
The only local objections I have to large estates being built are services.
Round here in the Midlands they’ve built these massive estates everywhere and not upgraded any infrastructure at all. All the public services are maxed out, schools all full etc
thehatfox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
East Anglia has the same problem. Large housing estates built everywhere with small towns and villages rapidly expanding, but no supporting infrastructure to match. Schools are overcrowded, doctors and dentists often impossible to find, roads gridlocked and trains packed.
The town I currently live in has nearly doubled in size in recent years and even the local supermarkets can’t cope, there are trolley jams in the aisles.
It doesn’t help that some local councils here will seem to rubber stamp housing proposals, but endlessly block anything else. Nor do they seem that interested in making developers keep their promises on services. We’ve had several estates proposed that were supposed to include schools, surgeries etc which then never appear.
I support increased housebuilding but it has to come with matching infrastructure. Failing to do so both fuels NIMBYism and harms local communities.