# Nimbys or regeneration? Its not chips or daddy…

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/03/03/nimbys-or-regeneration-its-not-chips-or-daddy/
- Published: 2008-03-03T18:56:21+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

I read in Charity News Alert with dismay that “Crisis has dropped plans to build
a £60m urban village for former homeless people in East London after lawyers advised
that an appeal against an earlier planning rejection was unlikely to be successful.”

This was a brilliant regeneration project that would have benefited so many people
and helped to revive a neighborhood, brought to and end by short-sighted counselors
afraid of their voters. Leaving the decision to an appeal, and so placing the real
decision out of their own hands, is not so clever when the appeal fails to materialize
or eats into scarce charity funds.

I thought this capital appeal would be hard enough without such an expensive struggle
taking place. It is increasingly difficult to utilize brown-field sites for rebuilding
and conversion projects. So, fundraisers are well advised to include the likelihood
of protest in their feasibility studies, however well thought through the project.

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So, Mildmay Mission Hospital and Crisis underestimated the NIMBY factor, and now
the NIMBYS’ neighbours will not receive “a new hospital, church, primary healthcare
centre and over 370 affordable homes”. Its neither chips nor daddy for some people.

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