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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by xxpor on Friday November 12, 2021 @09:46AM (#29199722)
I seriously doubt the issue is developer profits, but NIMBYism instead.

The backlash to introducing even modest by-right zoning in the UK last year was immense. The UK's housing regulatory scheme is somehow even worse than California's, it's just that the demand isn't as high and so the crisis isn't as acute.... yet.

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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by bennyp101 on Friday November 12, 2021 @09:51AM (#29199773)
Developer profits as in, there is more to made developing on green, than there is developing brown.

There definitely is NIMBYism, but I'd say taht at least half the time there is a valid reason for it - usually the infrastructure is not going to cope with the developments, but then that is always promised to come after, you know, once they run out of money ;)

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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by throwaway1777 on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:56AM (#29201533)
They’re surely not running out of money.
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