On borrowed time!  by happypat

On borrowed time!

On my walk yesterday I walked past this field. Good farming land but it’s earmarked for 400 new houses, a school, medical centre & small shop.
Well they will build the houses but whether the infrastructure will go up we shall see!

New houses going up everywhere in the UK. They say we haven’t enough housing but the builders are making a fortune.

Of course non of us want these extra houses & they aren’t affordable houses either...a few token semi detached but the rest detached £300,000 to £400,000 houses.

It will overwhelm our village but we have no say whatsoever!

Three good things:
1. I have had a bit of a rant!!! 😣
2. We have been touching up paintwork on the outside of the house today & washing paintwork, looks better.
3. Dry weather.
It seems to be the way things are going .. There is a subdivision going in not far from us as a satalite village for the city .. but nothing much done with the already overloaded roads.. crazy .. waste of good farm land..
February 3rd, 2020  
They're going to build a lot of new homes on fields close to us
February 3rd, 2020  
@julzmaioro Yes I have noticed new homes going up in lots of places in NZ Julz, still lots of room in your country though & farming so important.....farming is always in bad books over here...we cause too much methane, pollution of rivers...you too I know....less birds, it goes on....when people are hungry they won’t think that! Oh I forgot the vegans! I am having a good rant tonight!! Sorry folks!
February 3rd, 2020  
@carolmw Everywhere Carole....
February 3rd, 2020  
Ooh Pat - its the same story all around - they are sprouting out all over !
February 3rd, 2020  
Yes we have these houses going up and they open as show houses in the first instance. No gardens to speak of but seems to be what people want now days. Love to see you are still noting your 3 good things.
February 3rd, 2020  
@beryl Yes I knew you would agree Beryl!
February 3rd, 2020  
@lucycameron Yes the houses are selling...en suite & all that...their gardens are rubbish & lots of snagging...nicely open plan like everyone seems to want these days! I sometimes have to think hard for 3GT!!!
February 3rd, 2020  
It's the same in hutton and longton - building big 5 bedroomed detached houses. Where are all these many people coming from who can afford them?!
February 3rd, 2020  
Insteadofthefreshgreenofthefields,therewillbeaseaofgreyroofs!
February 3rd, 2020  
You don't have a planning board that can limit building in your village. In Maine several communites have limited how many new homes can be built in any one year. The builders grumble but the people in the town like it. And when the planning board tries to override what the people want then the people rise and vote them out.
February 3rd, 2020  
@maggiemae There will, but as usual we get used to it & forget about the green fields sadly.
February 3rd, 2020  
@joansmor Well we have local councils that object all the time but the main planning board fir the larger area we live in take no notice. There is a master plan for the area which you can inspect in the local government offices but we have no powers at all.
February 3rd, 2020  
@lyndamcg Yes that’s what makes cross, not about the houses themselves but the government makes so much about affordable housing h we wouldn’t object to so much, they should never have sold off the council houses in my opinion.
February 3rd, 2020  
Sadly swathes of green pasture are becoming a rarity :-(
February 3rd, 2020  
Ouch
February 3rd, 2020  
Wow... hard to imagine it changing! Looks so peaceful now!
February 4th, 2020  
What a contrast in how it will look! It's hard to watch developers come in and totally change a community.
February 4th, 2020  
The same thing is happening in our area. Prime farmland is being turned into subdivisions or solar farms.
Then all our trees and forests are getting leveled for the same reason. It is disheartening to see all natural habitat disappear.
Someone should tell the developers that humanity can be better served by protecting the endangered green space and farmland.
But, I am sure the owners will make much more money selling the land than they do with farming. And it is easy money to boot!
February 4th, 2020  
We are continually surprised at new bits of countryside succumbing to the building of new estates - and where are the trees? Or the GP appointments when you really need one?
February 4th, 2020  
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