NIMBY yawn.

Oh no. People affected by development object. How weird eh? The people being affected, having concerns and objections. And they are more affected because it's close to them. Amazing.

Yeah. My child plays in the playground by a busy polluted road and my road is affected by stupid rat-runners, with a council that is doing nothing about either problem. So what? If that's NIMBYism, then it's a badge of honour, not an insult and presumably you show a little more interest in what happens in your street and to your kids, than what some gas holders look like to you.

But, if you think a little harder than sidelining people with murmurs of being anti-German, these gasholder frames have the potential to make Bell Green and the wider area a little less bland in the future and the site has the potential to be more of a community asset than yet another supermarket. Which is actually a positive for NIMBY's and those who live a little further away.

But the argument, currently, is about tearing down the gasholders, sealing in the pollution and turning the site into wasteland. I'm against that, I'm against ALDI there, but I'm not against thoughtful and imaginative development, sympathetic to the area and the history and heritage of the site and it's links to George Livesey and the workers rights he pioneered.

Continue with your blind YIMBYism, if you do actually live that close. I'm not sure what the term is when you blindly support development that has little or no direct impact on you.