Was the House Builders Federation asked to help CALA Homes PR by calling for the “kill off” of NIMBYs in Tunbridge Wells ?
20.08.2004 – We followed with great interest the report of the Editor of the Tunbridge Wells Community Bulletin CB9. Dodgy Public Relations by the House Builders The business pages of the Courier have a nice bit of placed propaganda from the Housebuilders’ Federation attacking people like us, using the old trick of a YouGov. commissioned poll – polling for publicity is a trick we’ve used in our professional lives and it never fails! But a poll is not a considered view, only an opinion when you’ve been put on the spot. The poll tells us what we know already – the public generally want more house building (but not in their street) – so the House Builders Federation neatly decides to use this “factoid” to attack anyone who resents their profiteering as NIMBYs. They have also rolled up Kate Barker (Press reports of whose review of house-building was supplied to Bulletin subscribers some time ago) to endorse their “more houses” propaganda. You can smell the profits to be had oozing from the
