Should residents get cashback to discourage Nimbyism?

摘要

If a councillor wishes to end their political career they can do no better than support a major infrastructure plan in their ward, whether it be a road, new housing, a railway, an incineration plant or tracking. Indeed a couple of years ago the head of a major waste company, so exasperated by the way councils continually blocked his plans for incineration plants, suggested residents should be compensated - or in essence receive a bung for their troubles. That, he felt, would dampen their implacable Nimbyism. Despite him sending the suggestion to Eric Pickles nothing ever came of it.