A solution to add supply without touching nature or green spaces is gentle density all over; 4-5 floors everywhere, like in Paris or Berlin.

If the objectors to new housing are genuinely concerned about "nature" and green spaces, they would strongly this.

They don't. They protest these too.

BazBall is not the problem, it's how we implement BazBall the problem

Given their track record, I will believe it only when it passes

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Where I live, NW London, a petition was signed by 52K people objecting to flats on scrub land next to tube tracks because of “possible impact on a badger sett”. Delayed project by 2 years.

The Planning System is broken.

People become biodiversity fans once *their* house is built.

There are also..

Stopping at the intersection of the corridor and platform, blocking everybody else's access to the platform

Standing at the bus exit door while the rest of the bus has loads of space

And more recently playing your mobile phone aloud

All boil down to lack of self awareness

And most of them stand at the exit door of buses blocking those getting out; there is plenty of space in the bus - many open seats - but there is a magnetic attraction to stand at the door (while wearing a backpack for added punch).

He said all the right things about being pro YIMBY and enabling 1.5M houses but chickened out. What’s the point of a large majority of you aren’t going to use it.

Pay in procurement departments in private companies is 3x what the government pays, any wonder the state is so bad at it.

All the good people leave