F*cking N.I.M.B.Y.'s

When browsing the web today I couldn't help but get wound up about yet another bunch of w@nkers who've raised a planning objection against what seems like a good idea.

If you can't get planning permission on a derelict site to build an environmentally friendly power station that will provide renewable energy to homes in the region whilst at the same time disposing of their refuse then you have to start wondering when exactly everyone in this country lost the plot?

To be fair, no planning decision has been made yet but why do people even lodge a complaint about something like that?

We live about a mile away from a landfill site that serves the whole of Plymouth and the surrounding area. Normally the prevailing winds keep the smell away but when the wind changes direction it smells like someone has opened a sewer in our street.

If someone offered to build one of these biomass power stations there or just an incinerator I would be absolutely overjoyed. There is no way I would lodge a complaint and I would do whatever I could to hinder anyone else's objections.

Landfill is by far the most stupid way of getting rid of waste. Can you imagine the meetings that must have taken place?

"Well everyone we seem to have three waste treatment options.
We can either burn it, recycle it or shove it onto a huge pile and leave it to rot"

Planning laws need a seriously big re-write. It seems bizarre that "spoiling my view" can be classed as a legitimate objection when considering a planning application for housing. At the end of the day, unless your house magically grew out of the ground, you're a f*cking hypocrite.

It's the same when people complain about the noise made by aeroplanes landing and taking off.

If you don't like the noise, don't live next to a f*cking airport!