thank you very much for your comments and keeping this little gem alive and kicking!

Many thanks also for your compliments and am glad that you enjoyed the seminar. Its always difficult knowing exactly where to pitch it so that you can give enough information to everbody there so they feel that they can walk away knowing a lot more than when they walked in.

In terms of the NIMBY mentality, its everywhere I’m afraid but if the UK is to meet its housing needs, we MUST develop more brownfield and some greenfield sites to keep up with demand plus bring back into use the 500K+ empty homes in our towns and cities.

I’ll be in contact later today about the follow-on materials – my apologies, it’s been mad here catching up after the weekend.

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Your talk interested me the most of the 5 I attended, because in the new financial environment, mid to high level HMOs seem the best way for me to go.

Yes I know the attitude you describe above exactly. I had a real battle to obtain planning consent to convert the house I am developing now into 3 flats as a BTS. The neighbours complained bitterly that it would be noisy, unhygienic(!), and dangerous (more cars). The next door neighbour has even told me he thinks I’m immoral for not having considered his feelings!

The first 2 bed flat is now let and guess what? None of the 3 tenants has a car!

I can understand the psychology of their resistance as, quite simply, change scares people. But my argument is that if developers stopped developing every time anyone objected, nothing would ever get built! And there is a very well publicised shortage of housing in this country.

By the way, I did ask to buy the materials you were selling at the event, can you send me contact details so we can go ahead please?

Richard Greenland