Field behind our property will be a housing estate

[funkyrobot]

WinstonWolf said:

Thanks

Go to Hargreaves, the ready meals are to die for. I drive thirty miles to stock up on them and you're on the bloody doorstep

I'll give it a try.

Are you not in the local town anymore?

[WinstonWolf]

My missus still lives there, i flit between there and Peterborough, mostly on my bike

[funkyrobot]

WinstonWolf said:

My missus still lives there, i flit between there and Peterborough, mostly on my bike

I see.

[Krupp Stahl]

Where will all the extra turds go? The last thing you need is a bloody great richard III extruding itself up through the plughole grating in to the kitchen sink every time it rains a bit hard - like a cluster of squirming pepperamis peppered with bog paper writhing upwards from the depths like a festering reeking mince. Hopefully you don't live downstream of the new development as it were.

But I guess this is always the danger in setting up home next to a large field - you just never really know.......

[blueg33]

Krupp Stahl said:

Where will all the extra turds go? The last thing you need is a bloody great richard III extruding itself up through the plughole grating in to the kitchen sink every time it rains a bit hard - like a cluster of squirming pepperamis peppered with bog paper writhing upwards from the depths like a festering reeking mince. Hopefully you don't live downstream of the new development as it were.

But I guess this is always the danger in setting up home next to a large field - you just never really know.......

Combined sewers are rare. Foul will be s separate system from surface water.

[funkyrobot]

Not sure if anyone is bothered, but here are some details of the new development:

http://www.spaldingvoice.co.uk/news/rejuvenated-al...

[Skodaku]

I take it the local Parish Council haven't bothered to produce a Neighbourhood Plan ? Whilst there are very time consuming they are proving to be quite powerful weapons and the Secretary of State and Local Planning Authorities are giveng weight to even "emerging MPs, i.e. those that are well progressed but not yet "Made" (completed/adopted).

Too late to have any effect on the OP's development but a NP would help with regard to future developments.

They take quite a while to write though, and the research required is substantial, as is the cost, although grants are available.

[homeimprovements]

Have to say with this development I am now concerned about this development as we are on the s bends into Pinchbeck and we have field views behind our house as far as the eye can see. When we purchased and started renovating we never considered development of the land behind ours but pinchbeck and Spalding are now practically joined up. Maybe time to put a serious offer into the farmer to purchase and protect our view

[Roo]

The local land owner, whose field is at the end of my garden, has put in planning to tarmac over 17 acres of land and turn it into a 1,000 space park and ride.

[funkyrobot]

homeimprovements said:

Have to say with this development I am now concerned about this development as we are on the s bends into Pinchbeck and we have field views behind our house as far as the eye can see. When we purchased and started renovating we never considered development of the land behind ours but pinchbeck and Spalding are now practically joined up. Maybe time to put a serious offer into the farmer to purchase and protect our view

I guess that's the only thing you can do.

[blueg33]

How much land would you have to buy? It's probably about half a million an acre for development land in lines.

[AlmostUseful]

funkyrobot said:

Thanks.
However, I'm sure some much more qualified engineer has disagreed with me and said everything is fine.

Yup, I'm one of those more qualified engineers, and I spend most of my time writing feasibility reports for developments like this, so pretty much everything should be sorted.
However, nobody is perfect, and in my opinion one of the worst aspects of small/moderately sized developments (and 170 plots isn't very big) is the traffic flows.

It's a dark art, christ knows where they get their intel from but I don't believe for a minute that anybody ever really knows what's going to happen!

I've also been very distrustful of traffic analysis chaps ever since a very successful senior bod told me "yeah, sure we could fix all the tragic flow problems, but then we'd be out of a job. We just make it a bit better by here, and no worse by there, and then we get another commission a few years later to sort out the bit down the road"

And he's a very well respected traffic chap.

Anyway, not much you can do now, just relax and enjoy the digging.

Edited by AlmostUseful on Saturday 28th March 22:32

[funkyrobot]

homeimprovements said:

Have to say with this development I am now concerned about this development as we are on the s bends into Pinchbeck and we have field views behind our house as far as the eye can see. When we purchased and started renovating we never considered development of the land behind ours but pinchbeck and Spalding are now practically joined up. Maybe time to put a serious offer into the farmer to purchase and protect our view

Are you being affected by the plans to build some more houses near yours?

You may not still live there. However, I have recently noted that there are plans to build on a bit of land near the S bends.

[funkyrobot]

Update on this.

Work started on the field late last year. Builders have successfully ripped up a nice line of trees and the ground is all dug up. Big bits of pipe are being buried as we speak. We have ended up facing a massive mound of soil (as high as our house) that they piled up at the edge of the field.

The name of the site has been revealed, and it's a cracker. It's being called '(name of the place) Fields'. The signs for it also show nice big pictures of vast, empty green fields. You really couldn't make this up, could you.

[Andehh]

funkyrobot said:

Update on this.

Work started on the field late last year. Builders have successfully ripped up a nice line of trees and the ground is all dug up. Big bits of pipe are being buried as we speak. We have ended up facing a massive mound of soil (as high as our house) that they piled up at the edge of the field.

The name of the site has been revealed, and it's a cracker. It's being called '(name of the place) Fields'. The signs for it also show nice big pictures of vast, empty green fields. You really couldn't make this up, could you.

We have the same around our way. I posted a similar thread many years ago here, of some stunningly beautiful rolling farmland that is now pretty much a construction site now.

The views are 'town' view, 'town' Fields, 'Town' Chase etc always makes me smile & roll ours. That being said, our estate is of a similar naming structure!


For what it's worth OP - you are not alone. Driving to family i pass through several villages a lot with banners up asking for recruits to help block various new developments.

[Paul Drawmer]

I live near Banbury.
Every road into Banbury has new housing developments which extend the town outwards.

Nearly every village has at least one or two developments.

Here in Deddington work has just started on a site for 90+ homes on a green field site on the edge of the village. That's a 10% increase in the number of homes in the village in one development.

It will put stress on village parking, add to the traffic on the main road, and the local school and health centre will become stretched.

On the other hand, the cricket club could do with some new blood, and an increase in customers could only be good for the few village shops we have.