There are some new flats being built opposite my Victorian built house...?

Question

...and I've just watched a mechanical digger demolish a brick wall that has been there over a hundred years and an English Oak tree of a similar age I should think.

I know its progress, but its sad. Anyone else agree?

Answer 1

I hear you I live on a real nice town house that suppose to be family dueling only and one of the neighbor is dividing his for a two different family dueling I call the city and they have not done anything about this problem only in Brownsville Texas you se this c**p going on

Answer 2

Yes it's sad. I remember how the local authority ripped the heart out of my home town. I look nostalgically at books of photos of how it was and remember.

Much of it comes down to money. It seems that it's cheaper to knock down and build in inferior materials to bland designs than to adapt! Buyers won't pay the extra.

In any case people want new things these days (I'm feeling 90 already!)

Answer 3

Well, who on earth wouldn't be sad!?!?

I'd be more than sad! There just removed a peice of history basically!

Plus it's bad for the emvironment!

Answer 4

Sad, i agree

Answer 5

People have got to live somewhere and we need more dwellings.  Yes it's sad when old buildings and trees have to go.  Local authorities have a policy on which ones merit preservation.  If the developers got planning permission, yours weren't on the list.

Answer 6

It is quite common these days for local authority planners to grant permission subject to terms.

They may have said that the tree was protected, and the wall preserved.  Developers, have not time for that. They simple want to make money. The tree gets uprooted, the wall demolished, they pay a fine, end of.

Never has a local authority revoked planning consent for a breach of the grounds for granting it!

Added to which, the large developers line the pockets of the planning authorities!

Answer 7

It is sad, but it is happening all over the place.  That's all I see round our neck of the woods - houses or bungalows being sold and in place goes up a big development of 3,4,5 bedroom houses.  In my village whenever property goes up for sale a local developer comes and buys up the land and now is building flats on land that just used to accommodate 1 bungalow.  But that's what this government wants, more houses - We are just a small island.  Why don't they listen to the people.

Answer 8

you have to wonder whether they had permission to take the tree down, its really sad what is happening to age old things.

Answer 9

yes, its sad,,, a good planner would have worked round the tree and possibly Incorporated the wall as a feature too.

its happening all over,,

17th century cottages have been bulldozed in my town to make way for another supermarket.

we have 5 supermarkets already,, all within a square mile.

Answer 10

The problem is, that this government is forcing all local

authorities to build, build, build, on every piece of land,

mainly to house all these new immigrants that are to be

expected.  To meet the deadline, all other rules go by the

board!  Sorry to be negative, but that is the fact!

They are trying to put up scores of houses in a water meadow

full of migrating birds, in our area!