Can you see the sign?
Over the road in what is at the moment lovely agricultural fields, not for long though as the signs have gone up!
Over three hundred house being built, starting anytime now!
Allegedly they are going to build a new medical centre, school & convenience store but so many times the infrastructure does not materialise but if it doesn’t our small village will be overwhelmed.
Hopefully as it’s lower ground than us we might only see the roofs!
Three good things:
1. Harvest festival at church tonight.
2. I used the slow cooker today.
3. Dry wood
That’s a lovely view, for the time being anyway! This is happening everywhere, and you are quite right, the infrastructure often doesn’t materialise! Our village has gradually lost the few amenities it had, pub, post office…
Oh my!! That has happened here too and it is all crowded and no new Dr capacity nor dentists, town centre parking, schools….. I sincerely hope you fare better!
Pat , so sorry - I can truly empathise with you, having lost a view of what was a beautiful fields with great oak trees growing there and now a mass of a new housing estate.
It’s terrible isn’t it? They say we need more houses & no doubt they are right but why do they have to build on good farming land? We will need that to feed ourselves one day! I am sorry to say that farmers sold this land…the committee if the local agriculture show….they bought a couple of fields adjacent to the show & sold these for building….there are lots of angry people! Expensive houses too…who on Earth is going to be able to afford them? The present crisis might stop them but I doubt it!
Oh no, how awful. They aren't forward thinking are they. One day they will realize that you need farming land, and it will be too late then. Follow the money, all the developers and builders want is the instant money.
We have run out of land to build on in our immediate beach areas now and the developers are wanting to build more and more high-rise apartments in Nelson Bay. There was a height limit and every time they try to raise the height by crossing the councillors' palms with silver.
Even one of the main car parks in Nelson Bay has now closed because the developers have bought it and are building a high-rise apartment block on the land. Soon we will have a tourist destination with nowhere to park. Winge over. ha ha
That is so sad. We are facing something similar. A memory care facility closed after the pandemic and the land has been sold for a 6 story apartment building with all kinds of luxury embellishments and so much potential traffic.
They even have a name for it! At least you have your yard but beyond, might be a sea of roofs! But it might be 5 years or more! Hopefully they might have a good relation to their banks and can handle the length of time before people buy. Unfortunately then, the land machinery might be involved and noise...! It gives you time to adapt or plan for another future!
Beautiful shot and view. I know very well what it feels. There has been a craze for building apartment blocks everywhere, pulling down old beautiful houses, usurping arable land and causing havoc for cars with the big machinery blocking roads.
@sangwann Worldwide it seems…I just wish the planners would have a bit more vision & sense instead just letting building firms loose to put up lots of identical boxes! Converting old houses etc
It’s terrible isn’t it? They say we need more houses & no doubt they are right but why do they have to build on good farming land? We will need that to feed ourselves one day! I am sorry to say that farmers sold this land…the committee if the local agriculture show….they bought a couple of fields adjacent to the show & sold these for building….there are lots of angry people! Expensive houses too…who on Earth is going to be able to afford them? The present crisis might stop them but I doubt it!
We have run out of land to build on in our immediate beach areas now and the developers are wanting to build more and more high-rise apartments in Nelson Bay. There was a height limit and every time they try to raise the height by crossing the councillors' palms with silver.
Even one of the main car parks in Nelson Bay has now closed because the developers have bought it and are building a high-rise apartment block on the land. Soon we will have a tourist destination with nowhere to park. Winge over. ha ha