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Message: [QUOTE="DK, post: 13590139, member: 118654"] It's the same story here in Ireland, although it's more of a case of protecting a street of clapped-out 150-year-old ex-tenement blocks because it got mentioned in "Ulysses" than having a nice view. The NIMBYs will also feign concern for the environment (while owning some obese crapbox like a Nissan Qashqai or Kia Sportage) or a proposed apartment block either "not being in keeping with our area's architectural heritage" or being filled with "transient workers". Any residential building higher than 6 storeys evokes horror stories of the infamous Ballymun Flats, which were built in the 1960s following the clearing of inner-city slums, and became a by-word for drug (especially heroin) and gang-related violence. To cap it all off, pretty much any development is funded by a real estate conglomerate just for renting out at extortionate rates (you'd be lucky to get a 1-bed apartment in Dublin for under €1500 per month), our government is quite happy to pay said rates under the Housing Assistant Payment scheme instead of building social housing, and our national planning authority is horrendously understaffed. [/QUOTE]