To feel really upset about the lack of scrutiny on new housing development in the countryside

What is it about the site that makes it suitable for 120 houses but not 250?

The problem is these noddy houses are clearly popular for average Joe! Many of these big developments are designed by house builders and don’t have any architectural design in the scheme. And yet in many places noddy newbuilds sell for more than the larger older equipment.
It’s nuts to me but there’s clearly an appetite for it.

Everywhere there are buildings used to be countryside. Better to build up smaller villages, with the infrastructure to support houses, than just endlessly over develop cities and big towns

I kinda think the nimbys have brought this soon themselves. If they’d allowed housing at a reasonable rate then the massive blocks wouldn’t have to be built.

yeah sucks bro. Bothered !

So people feel powerless and have no faith that their communities will actually be improved by development. Their only option is to object.

The thing is, the whole reason NIMBYism exists is because of poor development. If developments were aesthetically pleasing, sensitive and proportionate to their environment, accompanied by appropriate infrastructure, you wouldn’t get NIMBYism.

Instead we have big house builders cramming as many poor quality houses into as small a space as possible. They use greenfield sites as much as they can because it’s cheaper. Promises are made about infrastructure that never materialise. There is no consideration of the fact that the communities they build in belong to people, they are not just sites to be exploited.

I question the need for the hundreds of thousands of new properties. In neighbouring village there must have been 1000 new houses built, vandalusm/antisocial behaviour rocketed. Yet within 100 yards of me there are 4 (presumably ex-) housing association, 3/4 bed properties just being left to rot. And this is over several years, so not a probate difficulty. So many empty properties (not to mention an absolutely deserted town centre, devoid of shops but plenty of empty buildings) but so many houses built on prime agricultural land (South-east) with no schools, surgeries or water/drainage facilities.

I’m the opposite - I am completely fed up with NIMBYs and their mindless opposition to development. We are losing primary schools round here because there aren’t enough children. An extra 20-30 houses in each village would be transformative, otherwise we are going to have fossilised villages.

We also have small villages with mainline train stations that are vociferously opposing any development, yet ranting about why people keep on driving through their village. It’s because idiots like them object to the placement of a speed bump, let alone a new house.