NIMBYism and BANANAs are certainly a problem, but this is the planning departments themselves acting capriciously , failing to even apply the law correctly, or having extremely onerous requirements. This applies to individual householders as well as large infrastructure projects. Just look at the lower thames crossing, where we spent £1.2 BILLION pounds of taxpayers money on pre-construction costs and compare that with the original Dartford tunnels and bridge which cost £191M TOTAL in 1990. It's just bonkers.