The citizens of Stoke Poges are up in arms about plans to build a new Secondary School. The campaign organisers are certainly not lacking in irony and have placed one of their banners directly outside a care home for the elderly - perhaps describing their vision for the village.
Retired NIMBYs are the only ones with enough time on their hands to go round putting up these sorts of things.. parents of the young kids who will need this school too busy running a family!
ReplyDeletePlenty of villages seem to be slowly evaporating. Ghost towns filled with the living dead. Sad.
ReplyDeleteSome interesting comments here comparing them with 'teenage hoodies trying to protect their patch'.
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Has there ever been a more selfish generation?
ReplyDeleteReports are emerging that the planning application has been withdrawn. Is this a victory for the Nimbys?
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