Astley residents to tell inquiry a 'monster' warehouse ruined village life
Regardless of the ins and outs of one particular case, the overwhelming evidence of their actual behaviour is that economic growth comes very low down the list of people's priorities, in the UK and across Europe. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
David Henig98“Old industry wouldn’t have got that close to your house,” she said. “So why is it that new industry can?” Is in the trade known as complete nonsense. The paradoxes of the current moment, around security, growth, what people want, are under-explored.
KS_196817These articles (like the solar ones) always mislead with descriptions like " a once quiet village". The area of Astley is a big place with a huge industrial park (this is an extension of that) & a major road through it. Making out it was a leafy little village is so misleading.
tomknowles.bsky.social14I think most people would pick a full night’s sleep over the more nebulous prospect of marginally adding to their country’s GDP growth, so it’s hardly surprising the giant 24 hour warehouse led to complaints
hawksland.bsky.social10People don’t translate economic growth into their lives being any better off, that’s why it’s low on priorities. They’ve been told trickle down economics works, know it doesn’t. In the meantime their lives, their homes in which they have great pride are made worse by business & very wealthy people.
Nash0rn9With respect — I’m not sure if this is really a good example to play the NIMBY / YIMBY card. I think this is an issue about planning, not growth per se. There must be a way to find better allocation of industrial zones within public masterplans that avoids proximities like this.
Rich5tbf to that bloke, that does look horrible, but at the same time he'd almost certainly have complained if anything was built there
The Pub-Liking Universal Friend28You have to get halfway through the piece to discover the whole beat-up has been set up by Z*e Bre*d, probably the worst and most obnoxious UK influencer once you get rid of the (admittedly also quite prevalent) ones who are actual Nazis
John C18Figured out this was Zoe Bread earlier, just had it confirmed, top tier levels of "fuck's sake"
Jack Tindale16If you go to the Wikipedia page for Astley, the first photograph they use to illustrate the "quiet village" are of the Bridgewater Canal the pithead of an old coalmine.
Philo 🔜️ Pawska 🇵🇱️4Perhaps up to a point. But I suspect the public are also just incoherent about this, because so many basic political expectations over decades have been built on the assumption of reliable growth and people clearly go mental when they don’t get it.
Jay Zedbee4the merits this is zoe bread and she must be defeated if we are ever to achieve prosperity in britain
Living next to a Whistl warehouse: "The noise wakes you up at 2am and you can’t get back to sleep. We’ve not had a proper night’s sleep in well over a year. It’s a living hell." - by @joshhalliday.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Anna Shergold5There are plans for some locally 24m high, size of 46 football pitches, 24 hour operation. Currently farm land. The government tell us to stockpile tins, whilst allowing farmland to be concreted over. And locals can’t stop the planning.
Mark Hale just wrote a novel!2Plenty of ex-industrial sites where a 24-hour operation could have set up in that area, bug it's easier and cheaper to throw another distribution hub up on virgin land. Shame on the council that gave permission for this blight.
More resistance to mega corps and I feel for the people in this article. But what nonsense is Bev Craig spouting? Of course old industry 'got near' people's houses. Or does she not count working class people? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Trish #AbolishTheMonarchy #FreePalestine4Esso Northumbria being built around 1968. Seen from a residential terraced street in Wallsend right next to Swan Hunters shipyard.
Brynley Heaven3in plain language, Bev Craig is entirely and completely wrong about the Victorian city
Ben Hall2Remembering photos of towering ships over major dock cities skylines and reading this nonsense
Sue Wilkes2The earliest factory masters in rural districts built houses so they could have a workforce close by. After steam power enabled factories to be built in towns, workers needed to be closed enough to hear the factory whistle for work.
![Quote: "Helen Halbous, who moved to the estate seven years ago, said: “It’s a feeling of being screwed over by Wigan council, having been born and brought up here. People who had a voice of power [in the council] either made this awful decision or they looked away and let it happen. It was a little mining village and now we’re this industrial centre. It’s so wrong.”"
From: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/09/astley-village-despair-monster-warehouse-inquiry](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m2erfzip26kvh5mxcc5vn6eq/bafkreibmrhlpkd7ukpm2unj3adeqmppnops7gsgsvlf2mbndzqxxfzsqii)
