This building boom is really gaining mommentum, everywhere I look gardens are becoming building plots.Quite near me is an old house with just over 2 acres attatched,now billed as an excellent developement opportunity to create a new 2008 style of living with outline P.P. for a mixed scheme of 2 and 3 storey flats and houses."the opportunity exsists for this to become a show piece for developers, there is scope for the site to be enlarged by negotiation.(next doors garden.) The site is now used as a garden and some horticulture and so is untouched and a blank canvas to those with insight and imagination"
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God help us all...S.T.
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Jeez.......why can't people leave things alone. It's getting stupid.
Liverpool is currently like a giant building site at the moment. There are loads of new buildings going up in the city centre and along the waterfront. The new arena is beautiful, it looks like a ship being launched into the river.
http://www.kingswaterfrontliverpool.com ... ?&iPage=36
(I don't know why they used pictures from the U2 Vertigo tour that happend in Manchester?)
However, all the flats/apartments/office space has been bought by speculators because ordinary people can't afford the stupid prices. Many are now up for rent for exhorbitant rents and stand empty.
There is a place called Otterspool that housed the Garden Festival site during the 1980's. It was build on an ex-council landfill site. The whole thing overlooks the Mersey and you can see Snowdon, Moel Famau etc. A lovely site. Now, developers want to build houses on that too. The area around is used by many people as parkland and there is a whole host of wildlife on there, as well as wading birds using the river etc.
These idiots want to dig down into God knows what and disturb an old landfill site. There are pipes all over the place to let out the gasses that build up.
All for the sake of someones big fat profit.
Liverpool is currently like a giant building site at the moment. There are loads of new buildings going up in the city centre and along the waterfront. The new arena is beautiful, it looks like a ship being launched into the river.
http://www.kingswaterfrontliverpool.com ... ?&iPage=36
(I don't know why they used pictures from the U2 Vertigo tour that happend in Manchester?)
However, all the flats/apartments/office space has been bought by speculators because ordinary people can't afford the stupid prices. Many are now up for rent for exhorbitant rents and stand empty.
There is a place called Otterspool that housed the Garden Festival site during the 1980's. It was build on an ex-council landfill site. The whole thing overlooks the Mersey and you can see Snowdon, Moel Famau etc. A lovely site. Now, developers want to build houses on that too. The area around is used by many people as parkland and there is a whole host of wildlife on there, as well as wading birds using the river etc.
These idiots want to dig down into God knows what and disturb an old landfill site. There are pipes all over the place to let out the gasses that build up.
All for the sake of someones big fat profit.
Lots of love
Lizzie
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Where i live it's an awful job to get an extension passed, but maybe thats a good thing.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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One of the biggest scourges near us is not so much the disappearance of front gardens as their paving over. We have a block paving/tarmac epidemic around here and more is the pity. Everything looks so sterile and one phormium stuck in the middle of a patch of gravel with a 4 wheel drive vehicle or two parked next to it doesn't really make up for the lack of plant life. I'd much rather look out over an attractive little patch of garden than vehicles and caravans, but maybe that's just me. Ho hum.
Vivien
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