“isnt this a 2 year old story just like the gedling one ? talked about in the days when gordon said we needed more houses for immigrant families ,so we must ignore brownbelt and build on the green belt land ?, i cant wait for tomorrows episode,
"stadium to be built at gamston if developers will take a punt"”

“It's out-of-town developments like these (in the UK, USA, Ireland, Spain) which are largely responsible for the credit crunch and our ongoing economic problems. Huge speculative developments costing billions to build (all financed on debt), not built where housing is in demand (places like The Park, Radford etc) but built on cheap out-of-town land under the hope of "build it and they will come".

This is what these companies do, rather than building homes where needed (where land is obviously a premium), they try to increase profit margins by building them on cheap edge-of-town & middle-of-nowhere land sites.

As petrol prices increase (most economists agree we will be very lucky if they only double over the coming decade!) such out-of-town estates will become less and less sustainable. However, as usual, when the next housing crash comes, it will be taxpayers once again picking up the bill.”

“I think we may have to agree to disagree on this subject, however I have enjoyed the debate.
I would like to apologise to other readers and correspondents for going somewhat off the point.

NB: I hope they manage to prevent the development but I don't hold out much hope.”

“You may be right, though I suspect that those whose own ideology leans to the right are more likely to see or at least take note of hypocrisy arising from those on the left, while those who are from the left are more likely to notice hypocrisy from the right, so I am not sure you could ever determine in an objective way where the greatest volume of hypocrisy lay.

But surely the point is that there are also people who lack hypocrisy right across the spectrum. The fact that hypocrisy is then demonstrably not an intrinsic part of any ideology means that any apparent association of the two is not a reason to reject any ideology out of hand.”

“Some good points there I'll grant you, although why would you promote ethnic diversity whilst not actually living in, or wanting to ever reside in, a diverse area? If not blatant hypocrisy, it does smack of PC ideology taking preference over one's actual yearnings. Again, if diverse areas are more desirable, as surely someone who promotes diversity must believe, why on earth would you NOT want to live in one? Lower house prices or higher crime perhaps? Or maybe simply not practising what one preaches?
I agree 100% that there are two faced hypocrites on all sides, however, in my opinion, the PC left has far more of these individuals than any other group, and they are considerably more vocal about the causes they claim to espouse, despite the contradictions.
One final point, a left leaning friend of the family who always was, and still is, a supporter of diversity, moved house when her area became a little too diverse for her liking. Obviously, a different reason was cited for the move, which would've been slightly more plausibly, had she not moved to an almost all white area only a couple of miles down the road!”