“The issue here is not really one that can be solved by planning law, because it’s fundamentally a problem of political economy. Whatever powers you give to accelerate and streamline the objection process, if there is any local democracy at all, it is just simply very difficult to do something which is opposed by a large group of energetic and well-connected middle class people. The only currently available strategy for dealing with this political problem – calling them selfish middle class bastards on podcasts – doesn’t really work”
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/we-wanted-human-capital-we-got-human