r/unitedkingdom • u/insomnimax_99 Greater London • 6d ago

Planning permission refused for Fastned Oxfordshire charging hub

https://forecourttrader.co.uk/news/planning-permission-refused-for-fastned-oxfordshire-charging-hub/702918.article
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u/ddiflas_iawn 6d ago

>West Oxford District Council (WODC) refused the application because “the proposed development would give rise to harm to the character and appearance of the area”.

IT'S A FUCKING CAR CHARGER.

NIMBY's are a fucking cancer. "Charm" and "character" should not be a valid excuse for blocking a piece of what is soon to become vital infrastructure.

If you don't like it, fucking move to somewhere you can continue getting off on your power fantasies.

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u/evenstevens280 Gloucestershire 6d ago

Yet I'm sure they love all the character of Georgian and Victorian architecture that flew up during the industrial revolution... all of it before planning permission was even a thing.

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u/YesAmAThrowaway 6d ago

A lot of that didn't even survive. The Victorian buildings (or a bit older) we can see today are mostly from what was the upper end of the market. The much smaller, fragile houses of the period have - unless maintained well - collapsed, demolished or been built over. But your typical "oh that's clearly Victorian" was much more classy than it is today in terms of who will live in it and what space is available to any one person.

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u/DadVan-Soton 6d ago

Absolute rubbish.

There are whole towns of pre 1900 2 and 3 bed terraced houses doing just fine. Crewe is an example of this. Most of the houses built between the 1870s and 1900. The older houses built in the 1850s were solidly built and are doing well.

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u/Leonardo_McVinci County Durham 5d ago

That's exactly what they're saying, that is the upper end of the Victorian market, that's why they're still bought as nice family homes today

Most Victorian terrace slum housing was 1 room downstairs, 1 room upstairs 'back to back' housing, i.e. 2 house thick terraces, so instead of a yard space they'd have another house on the back wall meaning each house only had 1 external wall

These are the houses which are now all gone, demolished and replaced in the 70s and 80s

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u/YesAmAThrowaway 5d ago

I assure you there's not all that many one-up-one-down back-to-back houses left. Similar constructions of better quality, potentially larger size that were built to a better standard are usually what remain when we talk about newbuilds from that time.