"The best way to make house prices wobble is for a community to take the sort of disruptive action that has happened here. Nothing loses sales and depresses values more than the lack of goodwill, neighbour tension, and reports of people harassing visiting children. " and your evidence for this is...?

As a disinterested observer, I find the vitriol and generalisations aimed at protestors quite shocking. How objecting to a particular use of property can necessarily be translated into child hating beats me and as an approaching 60 year old I am disturbed by some of the ageist comments being expressed. If the objectors were not of a certain age, what would the accusations be?

I don't have children and therefore in the eyes of some I probably have no right to an opinion on the matter, but surely an attempt to understand the 'opposition's' views might be considered?

Anecdotally, in my experience (I am of course not generalising), when a neighbour initiates some development that disturbs the status quo (more often related to building works) emotions run high and relations can be soured. I speak from both sides of such events.

In close urban environments, there will always be compromises and we all (whatever our ages) should be considered and considerate, but then I will probably be labelled an idiot or (worse) a woolly liberal.