I shall miss this view of the end of our garden! The builders (cowboys) are back again after a couple of years of protests from the neighbours, ourselves included, incredibly the plans have been approved for another couple of £500,000 houses (they have already built 3) to go ahead on land at the end of our garden. Thank goodness we have a long garden!
Yesterday all we could hear was the sound of trees coming down, so sad and I suspect there are still some nests in use in those trees, not that these particular cowboys would care about that.
Over the years we have become used to this view and pretended we lived way out in the countryside surrounded by trees, we had owls and in the summer bats would fly over our heads while we sat out on our patio enjoying a glass or 2 of wine with friends. It is so easy to take such things for granted and believe that they will always be around but sadly things do change and from now on we will have the noise and swearing and eventually a 3 storey house overlooking our little bit of heaven.
At the moment I just want to move away and find some peace but for now we have to put up with it!
2 comments:
I sympathise with you on this, Catz. My OH already worries about what will happen to his parents' property when they're no longer with us as they have several acres that's already been eyed up by developers. It's a pearl of a property (very small, old house but soooo peaceful) but as neither he nor his sister are likely to be able to afford to keep it, he fears it'll just become yet another housing estate for the commuting wealthy.
We have an old orphanage at the back of us that has extensive grounds. The building itself is far enough from our house for us to have plenty of privacy in the garden even though we live in a terrace. That's now up for sale to developers so I'm fearing the worse.
I shall keep my fingers crossed it doesn't happen to you Sharon! I appreciate folk need somewhere to live but in this case someone in a large detached house has sold up their very big garden for 5 very expensive large houses to be built in a gated community, personally I wouldn't buy if I had that kind of money as the gardens are tiny in proportion to the properties.
We are lucky enough to have a very long garden (by todays standards anyway) for an old semi det property.
I have just enjoyed a peaceful cuppa out there before the builders start up again!
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