I haven't but I know people who have. It's a demoralising experience, and not always the individual's own fault.
If homes were not needed they certainly wouldn't be built, anywhere, but while they are what kind of citizens are those who would den
y others a roof over their heads?
I feel sorry for those people who will end up living near the objectors for they'll hardly have proved themselves to be desirable neighbours!
As for going to live opposite a factory and then complaining because it's doing what it was built to do possibly long before the complainers were even born!
It reminds me of an East Yorkshire village I used to live in. There was a large active parish church and next to it a terrace of Victorian cottages.
The two had co-existed for years. Then one or two houses changed hands and suddenly people started complaining that the church bells were too loud, with the result that the church had to spend a fortune muffling them and the rest of the community had their enjoyment spoilt.
In that case, maybe those bells were telling them something they didn't want to hear! In the factory's case, it's not a community's enjoyment but a section of that community's livelihood that is at stake and that is far more serious.
Maybe it would be better if those who had so much to say at others' expense applied to "Escape to the Country" (bbc.co.uk) and asked them to find them properties in the middle of the fields - though not, of course, shared with the usual residents of those plots!
Dr Patricia Bastone
Wirksworth
Matlock
