Category Rural Housing & Development
Land, lost…
In little over six months Bloor has thrown up a collection of two to five bedroom houses with a Frankenstein mix of historical architectural styles. From plastic, wood effect front doors to ‘leaded’ plastic windows, fake stone lintels and stuck on half timbering that I really hoped had been left in the 1980’s, these houses integrate […]
Nothing but the sun…..
No development. Yet. Here’s hoping.
A Most Depressing Sight
As I left home this morning, I turned the corner to see that the developers have commenced clearing a site for which they have outline planning permission only. My stance will always be that arable land should never make way for building new houses in anything other than extremely desperate situations (which this is not), […]
Save our Villages
The National Housing Federation has a new campaign: to Save our Villages. By publicising the prospect that up to 650 country pubs and 400 village shops could close over the next year they intend to highlight the lack of affordable housing in rural areas, and in turn affect local authority planning decisions that they feel […]
Kat Martindale 
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