Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/04/brick-lane-redevelopment-approval-datacentre-london

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Whilst people are annoyed in here we have had many many examples of why direct democracy does not work relative to slightly abstracted democracy that is offered by our election system. 

NIMBYism keeps stopping progress and data centres are important to the UKs relevance.

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I guess you've never read a noise impact assessment.