Far be it from me to put the cat amoungst the pigeons but there seems to be a degree of NIMBYism here.
We have a moderately serious housing crisis on our hands and a disengaged, disenfranchised younger population struggling to get on the housing ladder and consequently build their assets.
It's widely recognised that there is generational gap and not building enough houses is proliferating the situation.
This is not only down to immigration (which we need - any anyone that's had hospital treatment will know that) but also lower occupancy and people owning holliday homes or bolt holes.
It'd be interesting to hear from some of the parents here as to whether they'd rather have affordable housing for their offspring or a nice cafe to go to.
There is no doubt that it would be a loss, but sadly usually there usually aren't loads of other alternative sites.
If there is somewhere better to build then I'm fine with that - but we do need houses.
