Field behind our property will be a housing estate

[SpeckledJim]

funkyrobot said:

SpeckledJim said:

Spondooly. I've always used it to mean new, shiny, nice, ta-daaa. As in:

"Tony loved his spondooly trousers. They were whizzo"


But it seems urban dictionary reckons it means money or cash?

Never mind. My point was that the near 100-year-old house he lives was at one point not welcome in the village.

But times change and now his house IS the village, and these new ones are not welcome.

My house resides on a road between the village and the town. It's part of an established row of houses that has been there for nearly 100 years. There simply isn't anything else around that my house had an impact on. Field is behind and field is over the road. How could someone complain when a house is built on a road with nothing else around it?

It wasn't established when it was new. It was unnecessary, ugly, unwelcome, horrid, a blight, etc. Except it isn't any of those things now. It's your lovely house and nobody wants to knock it down any more.

What's different to the new ones in the field?

[funkyrobot]

TTmonkey said:

funkyrobot said:

Both of them?

Is your house on rightmove yet? would love to see it....

Just sold it.

[funkyrobot]

SpeckledJim said:

It wasn't established when it was new. It was unnecessary, ugly, unwelcome, horrid, a blight, etc. Except it isn't any of those things now. It's your lovely house and nobody wants to knock it down any more.

What's different to the new ones in the field?

It wasn't part of a development cramming 169 other properties into the same, small area for a start.
The owner of a local fish and chip shop needed a house, so it was built (that trumps everything because we all need fish and chips).
As far as I'm aware (and I'm re-iterating this), it wasn't built at the end of anyone's garden. It was built an a road in-between a town and a village. Who would complain about that?

[Impasse]

Join in. Buy as many Off Plan as a BTL as your finances will allow.

[funkyrobot]

Impasse said:

Join in. Buy as many Off Plan as a BTL as your finances will allow.

I hope the houses they build in the field are better than the buldings they put on an estate near the village. A gust of wind blew the top part of the walls out of two of them. Their response was it wasn't their responsbility to fix it, but they would do it anyway. The houses were only a few years old.

[Harry Flashman]

Pothole said:

funkyrobot said:

Pothole said:

funkyrobot said:

Pothole said:

funkyrobot said:

dtmpower said:

funkyrobot said:

department has seen the opening of loads of European mini markets and gambling shops in the local town, whilst other types of shop have closed.

What's this got to do with housing ?

Because they seem hell bent on letting the local town go downhill whilst ruining the area around it.

you sure you're not a bit racist?

How can referring to my local council's planning committee chairman who is white British be considered racist?

It can't. Unless you're really dim, you know exactly what I mean. Why didn't you say Eastern European if you were too scared to say Polish?

What the hell are you on about?

They are European shops. Some are Polish based, some are Portugese based etc. They aren't all Eastern European.

It was a simple, closed question.

YTou can't accuse someone of being racist and then expect them not to debate it! Well, you can, but it's a bit stupid.

OP - feel for you, but we have a housing shortage, and they have to be built somewhere...

[funkyrobot]

Harry Flashman said:

YTou can't accuse someone of being racist and then expect them not to debate it! Well, you can, but it's a bit stupid.

OP - feel for you, but we have a housing shortage, and they have to be built somewhere...

Suppose so. Oh well. I have some planting to get on with.

[anonymous-user]

The lesson for anyone purchasing a house overlooking fields; they may not be fields for ever.

OP - what sort of fields? I'm assuming not part of a working farm but just open space?

[funkyrobot]

garyhun said:

The lesson for anyone purchasing a house overlooking fields; they may not be fields for ever.

OP - what sort of fields? I'm assuming not part of a working farm but just open space?

Working field. Has been worked by a farmer for the last few years we have been there.

I don't think the farmer was the sole owner of the field. When I investigated the planning application I noticed that his name, a local large solicitors or accounting firm and some other businesses were mentioned.

[Pothole]

Harry Flashman said:

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YTou can't accuse someone of being racist and then expect them not to debate it! Well, you can, but it's a bit stupid.

OP - feel for you, but we have a housing shortage, and they have to be built somewhere...

I agree. I didn't accuse anyone of anything.

Spalding and most of the rest of Lincolnshire has had a large influx of Eastern Europeans, mostly Poles (I think) with the standard associated 'problems'. I suspect that the population growth behind this proposed development is largely down to these incomers, or at least that'll be the perception. The OP is clearly fed up with the whole situation but why did he need to use an adjective when he mentioned mini markets if there is no underlying xenophobia? I suspect he also believes that the "spit, urine, dog st and litter" is also a problem which has only arisen since the 'Europeans' started arriving.

I asked a question. The OP hasn't answered it.

[so called]

funkyrobot said:

sc0tt said:

what town do you live in

I live near Spalding, Lincs.

Thought you were talking about my home town.
They are building houses in the field across from my house as I type.

[ClaphamGT3]

funkyrobot said:

dtmpower said:

funkyrobot said:

department has seen the opening of loads of European mini markets and gambling shops in the local town, whilst other types of shop have closed.

What's this got to do with housing ?

Because they seem hell bent on letting the local town go downhill whilst ruining the area around it.

Sorry but Spalding is going down hill because of economic decline and improved road links to bigger urban centres like Peterborough, not because of planning decisions. Also, wrt to retail, unless it is a change of use class, it's not a planning issue. The European mini marts have sprung up to serve the growing Eastern European community in and around Spalding

[funkyrobot]

Pothole said:

Harry Flashman said:

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YTou can't accuse someone of being racist and then expect them not to debate it! Well, you can, but it's a bit stupid.

OP - feel for you, but we have a housing shortage, and they have to be built somewhere...

I agree. I didn't accuse anyone of anything.

Spalding and most of the rest of Lincolnshire has had a large influx of Eastern Europeans, mostly Poles (I think) with the standard associated 'problems'. I suspect that the population growth behind this proposed development is largely down to these incomers, or at least that'll be the perception. The OP is clearly fed up with the whole situation but why did he need to use an adjective when he mentioned mini markets if there is no underlying xenophobia? I suspect he also believes that the "spit, urine, dog st and litter" is also a problem which has only arisen since the 'Europeans' started arriving.

I asked a question. The OP hasn't answered it.

You did accuse me of being racist.

I said European mini markets because that is what they are. Some of them are even branded as being so. If they were all Polish, I would have said so.

Where did I say that the problem is related specifically to 'Europeans'?

And you accuse me of being dim? Wow.

[TVR1]

Set up a bat colony. Bechsteins to be absolutely safe.

Thank me later.

[surveyor]

ClaphamGT3 said:

funkyrobot said:

dtmpower said:

funkyrobot said:

department has seen the opening of loads of European mini markets and gambling shops in the local town, whilst other types of shop have closed.

What's this got to do with housing ?

Because they seem hell bent on letting the local town go downhill whilst ruining the area around it.

Sorry but Spalding is going down hill because of economic decline and improved road links to bigger urban centres like Peterborough, not because of planning decisions. Also, wrt to retail, unless it is a change of use class, it's not a planning issue. The European mini marts have sprung up to serve the growing Eastern European community in and around Spalding

Nah Spalding is going down hill because it's a st-hole. And I live in Doncaster!

[funkyrobot]

ClaphamGT3 said:

Sorry but Spalding is going down hill because of economic decline and improved road links to bigger urban centres like Peterborough, not because of planning decisions. Also, wrt to retail, unless it is a change of use class, it's not a planning issue. The European mini marts have sprung up to serve the growing Eastern European community in and around Spalding

Good job I don't live in Spalding.

[blueg33]

TVR1 said:

Set up a bat colony. Bechsteins to be absolutely safe.

Thank me later.

Nope - we developers can rehouse them

Over the years on various I have:

Relocated 30 plus bat colonies
hand removed and replanted 20,000 wild grape hyacinths
Relocated newts, toads, frogs
Built new badger sets
created suitable roosting sites for owls
seeded 30 plus acres of wild meadow
built 3 natutre reserves with lakes

etc

We can do the lot, land owner pays

The only thing we can't do is replcae anciant hedgerows and ancient woodland

[Pothole]

funkyrobot said:

Pothole said:

Harry Flashman said:

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YTou can't accuse someone of being racist and then expect them not to debate it! Well, you can, but it's a bit stupid.

OP - feel for you, but we have a housing shortage, and they have to be built somewhere...

I agree. I didn't accuse anyone of anything.

Spalding and most of the rest of Lincolnshire has had a large influx of Eastern Europeans, mostly Poles (I think) with the standard associated 'problems'. I suspect that the population growth behind this proposed development is largely down to these incomers, or at least that'll be the perception. The OP is clearly fed up with the whole situation but why did he need to use an adjective when he mentioned mini markets if there is no underlying xenophobia? I suspect he also believes that the "spit, urine, dog st and litter" is also a problem which has only arisen since the 'Europeans' started arriving.

I asked a question. The OP hasn't answered it.

You did accuse me of being racist.

I said European mini markets because that is what they are. Some of them are even branded as being so. If they were all Polish, I would have said so.

Where did I say that the problem is related specifically to 'Europeans'?

And you accuse me of being dim? Wow.

I said:

you sure you're not a bit racist?

That's a question. A closed question. Your reaction is a bit odd.

[funkyrobot]

surveyor said:

Nah Spalding is going down hill because it's a st-hole. And I live in Doncaster!

We moved down the road a few years ago because we got sick of the state of the place. Drove down there a few days ago to visit the vet we use and it looked even worse.

Pothole - this is purely because of the bloody immigrants.

[blueg33]

Could be worse - I've been to Grimsby

I have just bought a site in Boston Have a few more in Lincs in my sights too.

I also have one in Balby near Doncaster starting in a couple of weeks