» Monthly Archives: March 2006
Research reveals rising nimbyism among public
March 17, 2006 Planning The overwhelming majority of the population is opposed to any development in their area, according to a survey published this week. The poll by the Saint Consulting Group, a company of planning and political lobbyists, reveals that 84 per cent of respondents feel their neighbourhood is 'already overdeveloped or ...
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Resistance Betrays Failing Of Leadership
March 17, 2006 Planning Next time anybody feels like moaning about planners or the planning system, they should glance at the results of this week's poll by the Saint Consulting Group. If the findings are anywhere near true - and anybody with experience at the front line will probably agree that they are ...
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Labour voters are the group most likely to oppose a proposed development of new homes
March 17, 2006 The Times NIMBYISM is becoming a trait that binds the British, a national characteristic that defines us in the same way that queuing used to do. Most of us (84 per cent, to be precise) take a nimby (not in my back yard) and, indeed, a nimfye (not in my ...
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The Buzz: Pop Quiz
March 2006 Affordable Housing Finance Americans are twice as likely to oppose new real estate developments than support them, according to The Saint Index, a measure of politics and land development. Not only is opposition widespread, it’s getting more sophisticated, reveals the index, which was conducted for The Saint Consulting Group, a Hingham, ...
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Supermarkets Adopt Political Tactics To Counter Local Opponents
March 11, 2006 Financial Times Supermarkets and property developers have borrowed techniques from political campaigning for their battles against people trying to block their plans. Planning issues were at the centre of the Office of Fair Trading's announcement this week that it was threatening Tesco and other supermarkets with a full-scale Competition Commission ...
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Public Opposition?
March 06, 2006 Globe St. Retail High-end retailers who want to bring their stores into the upscale neighborhoods where their customers live will find to their dismay that these same affluent consumers are among the demographic groups most likely to oppose such development. For the past two dozen years, my company has been ...
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Supporters Speak Up
March 01, 2006 Big Builder STUDY SHOWS THAT NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS ARE RELATIVELY UNCONTESTED. Thumbs up: Housing gets a free pass according to new study finding, says Patrick Fox, president of Saint Consulting Group. Surveyors used a standard clustering methodology known as random digit dialing, interviewing 250 people in each of four ...
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