Comments on: Living near the (noisy) brownfields

By: YorkStories

YorkStories — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:37:01 +0000

I do have sympathy (probably obvious from the fact that I’ve included these videos). I’m surprised that there aren’t more people expressing similar feelings. I guess there are, but perhaps they’re just discussing it with neighbours rather than recording it in this way.

Whether or not we have sympathy I think these are a valuable record of what it’s like to be living in the middle of this. I’ve often wondered what the Victorians thought as the streets of terraced housing filled the fields. Good that this perspective, here in 2014, has been recorded.

By: mallory

mallory — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:12:47 +0000

I cant find any sympathy for the people disturbed by the building work. The building work was always going to happen eventually, the site has been earmarked for development for many, many years, so the disturbance cant be claimed to be unexpected, neither can the loss of any views… Indeed, the disturbance and loss of views should have been reflected in the cost of the accomodation.

The views were never permanent, and noise cancelling headphones will dampen most of the disurbance.

‘NIMBYISM’ isnt just reserved for the suburbs, apparantly… :-)