My read is that most greens see the building codes as inadequate for the dual missions of improving biodiversity and increasing the quantity of dwellings and they prioritise biodiversity and nature over dwellings. There is a world conceivable in which you can both build and preserve/enhance biodiversity. The technology exists, the expertise exists, but instead its always just the same formula: acquire a greenbelt site, use your influence on the Council to acquire permission to develop, do a parking lot with a load of cheap red bricks thrown on top, do a few trees in between the concrete to tick a box, 25% affordable 250k houses, call it ’skylark lane’ in memory of what was there before, supernormal profits.
I have no issue with nimbyism in light of what developers get away with in the uk.
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