Unfortunately, just round the corner from us! I'm confused as to what "Volcanic Cow Lane Capping" is? Anyone farmer wise can help?
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Being round the corner means we can't hear the continual motors of these huge machines carving out new territories for small and insignificant little new houses!
Volcanic Cow Lane Capping is a topsoil used on cow tracks so that the herd have something a bit softer to walk on.
As for the new subdivision - it's only a temporary inconvenience to your life of luxury so that people can have some homes to live in.
I don’t mine developed as long as they incorporate a good section of green space. Since the condo behind us decided to plow under their golf course I hardly see or hear a bird any more. So sad! They even got caught trying to kill off some Burrowing Owls. These birds are protected here a very endangered species.
@graemestevens There are plenty of existing homes for sale here with far more room and property size, Graeme! They might be older. The houses on the subdivision are so close - high fences all around, no views etc etc
Developments like these seem to be happening across the world. We have thousands of new houses being built in our little village but no infrastructure or jobs for the people who move into them. No land has been designated as industrial so I guess they will have to drive for more than an hour to work in Auckland.
@maggiemae That's the way it is now and what people want - while we continue to have a buoyant property market it is, from personal experience and from the industry that I work in, more cost effective to build new than to buy existing.
A lot of peoples attitudes to new subdivisions, which would have had planning notifications sent out from council to the affected properties so there would have been an opportunity to raise concerns, seems to smack of a NIMBY attitude - I'm not saying everyone thinks that way but sometimes we also need to take in to account the other impact of this kind of thing: more jobs, more skilled labour, improved infrastructure once the subdivisions are complete, more income in to the local economy etc. Oh, and people get to live in a home of their own that they like...
@graemestevens This particular subdivision was held up for nearly a year as they hadn't planned for storm water drainage properly. I'm amazed how people seem to afford to buy these new homes which are over 1/2 as much again in cost as an existing house!
Not a clue about Volcanic Cow Lane Capping. I’m glad you can’t here the noise. We have trouble with dust from the construction. Hope you are around the corner from that also.
As for the new subdivision - it's only a temporary inconvenience to your life of luxury so that people can have some homes to live in.
A lot of peoples attitudes to new subdivisions, which would have had planning notifications sent out from council to the affected properties so there would have been an opportunity to raise concerns, seems to smack of a NIMBY attitude - I'm not saying everyone thinks that way but sometimes we also need to take in to account the other impact of this kind of thing: more jobs, more skilled labour, improved infrastructure once the subdivisions are complete, more income in to the local economy etc. Oh, and people get to live in a home of their own that they like...