Opinions opinions, we all have them, sometimes we can be right and sometimes wrong and we can change our minds. This video depicts my current thinking as a layman and concerned citizen as to what I see going on around me. It seems like a wanton destruction of countryside and the building of ubiquitous looking houses for an ever increasing population, yet some models say populations are starting to fall, certainly most British families are having fewer children these days. What about the wild places and the havens for wild life, should humans and their pets be excluded from some areas, ( I think so) but I talk about it in this video. Please leave your comments, I love to read them, I can't respond to everyone though, just not enough time now. Thanks for watching. Please keep the comments fair and polite, you are free to disagree with me and to express your opinion in the comments section provided it is polite.
I find it so sad to see so much of our countryside being destroyed by this mass house building . Even more annoying is the developers often have the audacity to call these places names like ' Foxes Retreat ' or Lapwing Meadows' or ' The Orchards ' it's a disgrace especially when there is so much derelict land within and around cities. Well done Sandy 👍
Sandy I don't know you personally I also live in Swindon and I am about your age, I find you a real inspiration as I wish I could do what you do. I have seen many of your videos and look forward to the new ones. Please keep up the good work 👍
Hi, Sandy. Sorry to hear about Mandy not having been very well, and glad to hear she is on the mend. The problem with the excessive building of housing is far simpler than people think. I was a builder for almost 30 years up until retirement, and the government changed the planning application laws a few years ago which has made it easier for developers to build virtually where they want these days. Where I live in West Sussex, entire areas are being swallowed up with new build estates and turned into concrete jungles. Unfortunately, this has now spread to building on Flood plains, so that every time there is an extended period of rain, flooding is the result. It makes me sick!
New builds are thrown up with cheap materials look at these new estates not been up long looking tired already get well soon mandy nice to hear your on the mend
You made some very interesting Points. Particularly about older people now being left lonely and cold in older properties. Witnessed in my own family. The result partly by our consumerists society.
It's not opening a can of worms, this started in the 80's and I don't see it ending now or anytime soon. Too many are getting fat off the misery of the masses.
Very interesting Sandy. We were lucky enough to grab a new build here on Purbeck. It was built on a brownfield site quite small with only 13 homes. The local developer has used local materials such as purbeck stone, brick, wood and render. All the houses are similar but all the surface finishes are mixed so we’re not all the same. As for new builds generally they can all tend to look very boxy. Thankfully ours has an old schoolhouse vibe.
Sandy mate, you navigated that subject like Magellan 😃 Nicely done 👍 You have my Full support - you should live where I live in Berkshire! Swindon will be just another "15 minute city", "15 minute neighbourhood", whatever, everything is included and you won't need to leave your bubble! Lots of love to Mandy ♥️💋💋💋
Hi Sandy Glad to hear your lady wife is on the mend, and without too many complications, good news. Your thoughts are exactly that "your thoughts" but they are common sense thoughts that a lot of us agree with. Keep having your thoughts and we thank you for sharing them. Stay safe both of you and walk our pleasant land enjoying nature, while we can !
Firstly and most importantly i’m glad your wife is getting better WM. Secondly your right about the new builds, there crap. Builders back in the day took pride in their work, now you see builders vans driving like idiots and throwing rubbish from their vans. Not all are bad but a lot are. Unfortunately i cannot see things getting any better, especially under Starmer. All he’s interested in is money money money! Great video WM👍👌
Hope your wife gets better. I agree especially about the family unit. I remember as a teenager in the 80s being asked constantly , if I was still at home like it was a crime . There must be hundreds of empty houses industrial areas that can be used instead of these areas. All the best sir.
Glad to hear Mandy is on the mend Sandy. New builds definitely have an impact on the local wildlife imo. The Bullwoods in Glasgow where I grew up as a boy has changed so much in the last ten years. I could walk in them and not see a single person all day. Full of butterflies, roe deer, buzzards, Tawney owls and wildflowers. Now we have the same cloned houses surrounding them and all the wildlife in the woods has gone. Walking tracks made by the dog walkers are all over the place with (trampled bluebells). These entitled dog walkers leave their bags of shit hanging all over bushes etc. My heart is broken sandy and I don't go there now. Atb Johnny
Good to hear Mandy is on the mend. The problem as I see it with, housing etc. is that as we are a small country, geographically, we have just about run out of room to sustain the population. The answer then is to reduce the population. How we do that is the problem. Limiting inward migration of people that will never benefit the country is a start. I'll leave it there!
We used to be able to have conversations with one another, now it seems as though way too many people choose to turn the conversations into arguments. To some the conversations aren't complete unless there is some sort of issue risen that may require an element of some degree of controversial polarization of thought. I really do miss the earlier days when happiness and content were so much more prevalent. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this Sandy, I always enjoy hearing them. Take care and I will see you on the next one.
I entirely agree with your comments in the video. It's so refreshing to hear someone with a balanced view,and not blaming immigrants for the spread of housing. You are correct in saying it's all about the profits of developers and money lenders. That's why they don't build on brown field land as it costs them more money to decontaminate etc. My advice is to get involved with your local council and oppose the developers where possible
Well they are to blame. If the population of the country had not increased by over 10 million since 2019 then none of these massive housing developments would be needed. Not to mention all the other infrastructure that is needed when hundreds of thousands of new homes are built - roads, shops, schools, doctors' surgeries, hospitals, leisure felicities, etc. We never asked for this. It has been forced upon us and we who lived here all our lives are expected to pay for it!!!
Totally agree. There are plenty of brown field sites in built up areas. Once you build on countryside it has gone forever, such a shame. We all need somewhere to live, but the question needs to be asked why are they so expensive? Greedy estate agents, developers and builders are not helping anyone.
I share your sentiments mate. I’m sorry to hear about your wife, but so glad that she came through this relatively unscathed, wishing her the very best for a fast recovery.
Until you said it, I hadn’t thought of different styles of housing as you look at different areas but yes, you’re so right. Northamptonshire villages are built of honey coloured stone, same as in the Cotswolds, whereas my grandparents’ village in Wiltshire - those cottages are of a soft grey coloured stone. Bedfordshire villages are built of red brick, bricks made from the huge resources of clay in that county. Up north in the Peak District and Yorkshire you’ll see cottages built of dark grey grit stone. Norfolk cottages are of flint walls contained within patterns of red brick. Yet in all of these places the new housing developments are the same red brick boxes with grey tiled rooves, either that or houses made of large slabs of coloured material, white, blue, brown, grey with steel here and there, like some sort of European style house. Certainly not a regional British style! The answer to our housing crisis surely must be to build small terraced houses on brownfield land only, each house to have a small garden of about 20’ x 15’, enough to have somewhere to sit and somewhere to have a few raised beds for flower, fruit and veg.
I live in Australia. Still plenty of open space here but the suburbs are awful. Houses that take up the whole block and hardly anything green. Everyone subdividing their big blocks. Luckily I am on 5 acres in the Perth Hills with lots of space and greenery around me. I was last in the UK around 2010. I would take the train from London down to Falmouth on a regular basis. I noticed all the new estates being built. Also no space for gardens and just little houses on little blocks. Very depressing. Cornwall off the beaten track was amazing though. Lots of green treed lanes and stone walls. That was the Great Britain that is part of my heritage. I agree with you 100% Sandy.
P.S. my parents live with us on my block. My kids have grown up seeing their grandparents every day and we have supported each other as required to make life easier for all of us.
Thank you for the video, My husband and I got married in Stratton st Margaret parish church 48 years ago😊. Where the cold room is, there used to be to be Nisan huts near it or next to it, in the 50s or 60s.
I fail to see how anyone cannot regret every inch of land that gets built on. Last year 700000 people entered the UK, the vast percentage by legal means, relatively few by boat. It has been said we need immigration to do the work us Brits don't want to do and we also need the skills these people bring for the NHS and the care sector. We're told with an ageing population and a low birthrate we need more people. I'm not clever enough to challenge this but surely people who come to the UK and settle here will in time become old and need care themselves. What do we do then, bring more and more people into a relatively small country? Glad your wife is on the mend
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said there Sandy. I live on the outskirts of Manchester, my wife’s family are farmers, I help on the farm as much as i can, especially during summer. Anyway obviously we know a lot of local farmers and you wouldn’t believe.. or maybe you would, how many have been approached by builders, or scouts that go around on behalf of the big builders putting big offers to the old farmers . A lot of the local farmers are struggling, as is everyone and when they get offered a big sum of money for their land, some just can’t resist. I never hear of the scouts badgering the farmers who are doing well, with their brothers, sons and grandchildren all helping in the day to day running of the farm, no, they badger the old boys living on their own, struggling. Its criminal and there should be a law to stop it happening we are loosing far too much greenbelt land. Go into Manchester and its full of skyscrapers with rich people living there. The old once beautiful parts of the city are run down, these are where they should be building new affordable homes not in our beautiful countryside 😡
Hi Phil, thats same thing happened to a farmer near here, the land now has a housing estate built on it. The govt need to change policy on all this new planning, its perverse and hell bent on money money money. It won't end well.
Totally agree with you on this, greenbelt was implemented for a reason, seems to have been swept away under successive monotonous government. Makes my heart bleed.
I already had the same thoughts and agree totally with you. there is also lots of room to build or extend in excisting towns and cities without stealing from the natural world. I live in a city and can see loads of space for apartments.
Very sorry to hear about your wife. I do agree with your point of view, I think where I live the same thing is happening as well, but I think it’s more greed driven, it’s cookie cutter homes for as much as they can get with no thought or regard about anything else.
Green belt land needs to stay green belt land Sandy...our green and pleasant land is now under threat of over development....it's supposed to be protected. And back in history, families did live all together. When my dad's dad passed away, my dad went to work, putting food on the table for my great nan, my nan and five siblings and if you go right back in history, the children and grand children looked after their elders. Wolves do the same thing...the Alpha male, always at the rear of the pack, protecting the more vulnerable in the pack. For our own sanity, we need to be able to get back to nature, just to recharge and heal from the unnatural "civilised society" we have been forced in to.
I certainly agree with you that brown sites should be used more to build new houses. I have seen in my local area prime agricultural land now is full of houses. I feel we need more farmers and the ability to grow more of our own food and building on that land is short sighted. I hate to see trees chopped down it makes me very sad. I hope Mandy recovers quickly so sorry she has had a stroke how awful for you both. Praying she will heal totally.
I remember living in Haydon Wick and my house was on the outside edge with fields stretching for miles. Purton was a distant village. That gap is now very small and Swindon has spread out to become a huge housing estate but with no decent town centre. We still have some lovely countryside but it is slowly disappearing. Official statistics put the UK population at about 68 million but some suggest it’s much, much higher. I’m ok as I’ll be dead in 20 years but I do wonder what England will be like for my grandchildren. Good news about Mandy 👍
I reckon UK populations is nearer 80 million now. There are just so many many people every where. Travelling most hours of the day even minor roads now have heavy traffic where as 20-25 years ago they were empty for most of the day. Depressing.
Best wishes and get well soon to Mandy . Our little two bed bungalow with woodburner , manageable garden and workshop/garage for the motorbikes is more than enough for us . I’m not a greedy woman! Don’t get me started on the thousand or so houses being built on farm land down here in Gillingham! Keep them coming. 👍
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Totally agree with you , Chipping Norton where i live, same thing , no infrastructure, turn the old railway line into tracks etc , my kids won’t afford the houses , like your hat by the way , I’d like one Thanks Mark Yates
Thoughts and prayers for Mandy. I've lived in a mainly peaceful era; my Grand children, who are around eight and ten, may not be so lucky. Big companies only see money not nature, they will build on our doorsteps! There are thousands of empty properties in Towns that could be repossessed and made affordable.
I’m with you on all accounts Sandy, don’t know how it’s going to pan out, but our generation certainly had the best of times, young people today will not be so fortunate.
Hi Sandy, I'm pleased to hear Mandy's health is improving, please send her my regards and hope to see her again in the future in one of your video's. I agree with you about the lack of infrastructure around these housing developments. Basically the population growth has been too fast in the last twenty years and uncontrolled immigration is making things worse. When taken together with, as you put it a certain group who have too many children per couple, which is part of their culture. I too don't know what the answer is, but I'm not afraid to say legal and illegal immigration needs to be brought under control, together with a two child policy , like the family allowance law which the current government has or will soon repeal and open up paying for as many children any couple may want to have and us tax payers will fund...............rant over. ATB Big Dave Scotland
I love it when you rant Sandy, talking about the things that matter the most to you. I feel like I am wearing the same shoes as you, and on many a note I follow what you mean. My thoughts seem to leek as you ramble on, and my mind can't agree more than my opinion's already does with each thought as you. I feel a connection at the best of times as my head nods in agreement. Peace and respect.
It's nice when someone agrees, I bet there will be a few that disagree, but I feel most who watch this will agree, but how to effect a change I am at a loss to understand at the moment.
Sandy, you are 100% correct. Hopefully all those new builds won't go to all those immigrants that have no agenda except to cause trouble and collect money from the government, commit crimes without any retribution like we have over here in a lot of our cities. It's disgusting how this country is going and yes I know you guys have more than your share of problems with those immigrants. It's a sad thing. Dwayne
I wholly agree with you Sandy. It beggars belief that developers can get a plot of land and charge "affordable housing" which is way way above what young couples can afford. So its the bank of mum and dad, and inheritance which continually pushes prices upwards. The stress loaded upon the young is just not right. Its time that housing should be Govt / Council housing which is affordable at sensible levels, even housing associations charge disgusting rates in which its tenants choose to remain under Universal credit because as soon as they could manage to get a job they would be skinned alive by the sheer cost of a commercial rent. I'm glad that Mandy is better. And I have enjoyed your rant and walk with your wonderful dogs.
Thanks Ralph, Good to see you out camping at Scot Chambers place the other day :) What you say is correct in my opinion. And yes, the dogs are wonderful :)
Glad Mandy is doing well Sandy. I agree that private estates and land management does well for the protection of our rural assets, furthermore, the nice thing about stealth camping is that we can virtually sneak into any beauty spot undetected and own it for an hour. 😊 Harry
Development is happening everywhere sandy it’s crazy just build build build. I got booted out the door at 17 to join up mind you I was paying rent to my mum at 16 as I was working full time waiting for the military to say yes 👍♥️ glad Mandy is feeling better and hopefully on the mend we have been thinking about her 👍♥️♥️ love to all the family carmen and zeta 🥰♥️👍☺️
I have to agree with you , I think we are like locusts we are just destroying everything , as a Christian I don’t think we have to long ? I do wish and pray for your wife , I had a stroke a few years ago and have recovered. One of the thing I eat everyday is linseed seeds for the omega oils and I try to cut out processed food as much as I can as it no good for your heart or any part of your body but I do need to do more exercise . Well bless you and you keep speaking up as I know you care for nature.
I believe your thinking is quite sound Sandy. I have lived in some big cities, like Chicago and Phoenix and in some very country areas. I will take the countryside every time. The cities were not very bad places but you can't hear yourself think like you can out in the country. I think you're correct on the need for family living closer together too. Cost and care will move to the front of want, very soon everywhere. Maybe for the better but there will be a learning curve and if we are not careful the past will repeat itself.
Hello Sandy. Glad Mandy is on the mend. Me and my girlfriend agree with u wholeheartedly. We have the same problems in nearby Wootton Bassett. Quite often enjoy a walk down our local canal and binknoll lane. (You might know it). 400 houses planned. Best wishes. Martin WB
I and many others that I speak to are totally in agreement with your opinions Sandy, and if I didn't agree, I would have the good grace and tolerance to respect that your opinion was different to mine.
You raise some good questions there, I am seriously concerned that our country is going bad, very bad. Too may people coming in… also there is an anti UK farming bent from the current and previous government. When we were children we were self sufficient locally for food, now… the UK imports 50% of its food so I recall someone saying and it’s going down… very very bad.
It is Martyn, I try and grow some of my own food in my garden, my house was built in 1959 so it has enough garden (just) to allow a small veg patch, modern builds not so lucky.
We agree with all you say Sandy, we use to hear the owls in bed at night time, long gone since they put the bypass in cutting our lane off. 1000 houses are being built on the farmland right by us. A lady I know wanted to move back to her family in Somerset . She wanted a new build as a cash buyer. Wherever she went it was the same story. Half were for shared ownership, the other half for asylum seekers .
Nice to see you with the dogs nice walking in the woods 🪵 nice to hear that Mandy getting back on her feet yeah is nice to see you back out stay safe sandy and stay healthy one life enjoy blessed be
As mentioned Sandy, it’s happening on huge scale in my neck of the woods. My old home town was a quiet town surrounded by farms. The farms are now all housing estates. Maybe it’s worthwhile building a 3 story house so you can bring your parents in & care for them should they need it. A generation on each floor! Either way Sandy I certainly think something needs to change. Wishing lMandy a speedy recovery. I wish you both the very best of health.
There's a lot to be said for having a larger home or for the family to club together and all share under one roof. It would be a lot cheaper for everyone
Glad to hear Mandy is getting better. Your family has certainly had your fair share of illness, but I feel it's made you strong. Wish you all the best. As regards the subjects you raised, I completely agree. I could add plenty to it, as I'm sure you can... take care Grant 👍.
Recording historic sites and land , to me, is important for people to see what has happened and is happening to England as time marches on. Perhaps thats me just being a bit nostalgic.
Good on you Sandy, I'm of a similar age as you and have very similar views as you. Love your videos. Infact it's you that has inspired my to get back on my bicycle. Unfortunately I live in Essex and we are not blessed with many good cycle rides. (Far to busy roads). I know you patch a bit, I lived in Corsham for a while in the 70's and then in Frome in the 00's. Hope to get down your way next year for a bit of camping and cycling. Keep up the good stuff, all the best Danny
For the last 4 years I've been helping to rebuild the local canal. Not just water..... It's a blue, green corridor for wildlife and people.. a park space in linear form to preserve this corridor for wildlife and away from roads for people.
Glad that Mandy is doing OK. Yes to much building going on and all for the wrong reasons and it shouldn't be happening on flood plains either, but when it happens it should be for starter homes !
Well Sandy I agree with you 100% I grew up in the 70's and still live in what was a small village in the very south of Gloucestershire It is 3 times bigger now and has two massive new towns 2 miles in either direction so we have 24000 cars per day driving through, as you say I think things are coming to a head.
Hi Sandy, Sorry to hear about Many, but very please that she is doing well, Give her all our very best wishes from the House of Moose. As for the new build mate, its a shame, they are a necessary evil I'm afraid ,but I wish they do more to use what land that has already been despoiled, and not just take new land because its easy, " correction " Cheaper!", All the best Sandy. 👍 Regards Moose
Well said Sandy, everyone expects to be able to turn on a tap or flush the toilet and that’s that without a care of where the water comes from and where their waste from the toilet goes, the trouble is clean potable drinking water is a finite resource and if we keep building houses like we are then that resource is going to run out, it doesn’t matter how much new infrastructure is installed, if the original water resource be it ground or river based is over stressed then we will start to see potential for it running out, the government and building companies should only be allowed to build more houses if there is sufficient availability to supply and then take away the water that would be required, a bit of a ramble but it’s the truth 🤷👍
So pleased to hear that Mandy I’d making a full recovery. Future housing development is a conundrum, with an ever increasing population they have to be housed, and land grabbing is popular here also, however, the trend is to build up rather than out and use more agricultural land, I hate high rise buildings, but it’s better than the alternative,. But I do agree with your assessment of the f trends, a bit disappointing how the world is heading. Australia is a big place, I drive more than 20,000 km a year, so it difficult to get somewhere remote without long distance travel.
It seems houses nowadays are more to let people "function" rather than live. It's more about efficiency and profit than character. Those "boxes" are less organic. It's sad that the country side becomes almost a standard shopping mall with only shops from corporations.
The destruction of heritage buildings or deliberate neglect so they collapse or get torched by candles is a disgrace. The way we are destroying green land and developers being allowed to destroy grand historic buildings then replace them with bland flats or houses is quite shocking and more should be done to repurpose beautiful buildings. In North London they even building on station car parks to fund Sadiq Khan’s mismanagement of TFL. The tower blocks they intend to build will be an eyesore for miles die to high elevations of the proposed developments. These have to be some of the most shortsighted and corrupt building developments ever passed in my opinion.
Nature cannot defend itself against the tides of destruction. Its preservation relies on people like yourself Wiltshire man. Your opinion is not just of a leyman. But rather the opinion of a soul who has cared about nature and the landscape for a long time. No wonder nature welcomes you with open arms. Great to hear Mandy is doing well.
I love nature and beauty and see beauty everywhere Mick. I've heard it said that all it needs for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing. Not sure what I can do but voice my opinions at the moment. The funny thing about nature though Mick is that we are nature and therefore our decisions could also be nature and that includes the bad said of nature as well as the good side! We can only hope that the good side will prevail and I believe it will. Love never fails.
I love my rural surroundings and only being 5 miutes from a country park.Problem is we have a growing population and people need housing...Where I stay there is house estates being built in on the outside of town in rural areas.Its the only place they can build them.
I too wonder where all the people who move into these new houses are coming from. Where were they living before - were they all squashed into tiny flats and desperate for somewhere bigger? I doubt it. One thing I know for certain is that a lot of these new houses are lived in by single parents, so where previously a family lived in one house they now require two. Another thing is that families want bigger houses than they really need. The designs of these big estates are indeed horrible. I cycle round some of the new estates in Wantage and they are just soulless, and it's the same in Devon where my daughter used to live. They have tiny gardens and very little front garden. If you walk round the older estates they have bigger front gardens (though often paved over nowadays to make driveways) and it makes such a difference to the look of the place.
Around our way several new estates have been built and they look awful, also we’ve had to put up with HS2 swallowing up the land, destroying woodland and hedge rows and causing so much chaos to road networks.
Evening Sandy, best wishes to your XYL for a speedy recovery. I don’t know about the family staying in the family home, I’m trying to shut mine out the door but I think they’re too comfortable. 73s
Good news about Mandy 🙏👍 People already do live somewhere...don't they? Not like we live three generations to a house...along with the livestock...and most kids conceived in the woods and fields due to lack of privacy... The Church owns very little these days, but I agree with you over the ownership and management of private land, this is why I don't agree with an English, countrywide Right to Roam. With regard to using land for housing, that depends on how seriously 'they' take food security (I don't think they care, tbh).
I am more and more coming to the conclusion that the public (per se) and that includes me and my dogs should be excluded from some tracts of land, it is necessary for such a thing to allow a haven for wildlife. Regarding food security I don't think they care much, it seems that way to me too.
No matter the country, no matter the location, we are all being shoved into these crowded homogenized city plans. I live in what used to be a fairly quiet town. In the last ten years thousands of generic cheaply built tract houses have gone up, traffic infrastructure has not improved (even with major tax hikes), and peoples attitudes have gotten nastier and nastier. I gave up riding the push bike at all on any roads as it was taking my life into my own hands every time. I’ve nearly given up the motorbike as well due to all the crowding and peoples lack of care. I am looking at moving states away to a very rural area that has nothing to offer the masses, just what I want.
Absolutely right Sandy when you talk about the style of newbuilds. We travel around the country in our campervan and no matter where you go all the new new housing developments are identical. I suppose it's all about money.
Streamlines the planning, just like all of our Identikit high streets. Councils would approach EU with a tried and tested planning application , for funding, and so as a consequence you get the same tax dodging coffee shops pushing sugar.👍
You cannot say so but David hike ex snooker commentator had and has it right. I would urge all to listen to his current commentary. He has been right so far. It's going to be a hard time. I cannot begin to imagine imagine the changes you have witnessed environmentally and demographicaly in Swindon over 50 years. I have only been a casual witness over the last 30 or so. It's a total disaster tbh. Started watching you when you did guitar videos. . Love from Berkeley. ❤️
Opinions opinions, we all have them, sometimes we can be right and sometimes wrong and we can change our minds. This video depicts my current thinking as a layman and concerned citizen as to what I see going on around me. It seems like a wanton destruction of countryside and the building of ubiquitous looking houses for an ever increasing population, yet some models say populations are starting to fall, certainly most British families are having fewer children these days.
What about the wild places and the havens for wild life, should humans and their pets be excluded from some areas, ( I think so) but I talk about it in this video.
Please leave your comments, I love to read them, I can't respond to everyone though, just not enough time now.
Thanks for watching.
Please keep the comments fair and polite, you are free to disagree with me and to express your opinion in the comments section provided it is polite.
I find it so sad to see so much of our countryside being destroyed by this mass house building . Even more annoying is the developers often have the audacity to call these places names like ' Foxes Retreat ' or Lapwing Meadows' or ' The Orchards ' it's a disgrace especially when there is so much derelict land within and around cities. Well done Sandy 👍
I know, it's pathetic.
Sandy I don't know you personally I also live in Swindon and I am about your age, I find you a real inspiration as I wish I could do what you do.
I have seen many of your videos and look forward to the new ones.
Please keep up the good work 👍
Hope the wife gets well soon
Thanks Rob :)
Yes, nature needs hedgerows, meadows, trees and pond habitats 🙏🦇🦔🐦🦉🐟🐌🐝🌿🪱🌳🌼🦊🦔🦡
Take care Sandy and Mandy🙏
Hi, Sandy. Sorry to hear about Mandy not having been very well, and glad to hear she is on the mend. The problem with the excessive building of housing is far simpler than people think. I was a builder for almost 30 years up until retirement, and the government changed the planning application laws a few years ago which has made it easier for developers to build virtually where they want these days. Where I live in West Sussex, entire areas are being swallowed up with new build estates and turned into concrete jungles. Unfortunately, this has now spread to building on Flood plains, so that every time there is an extended period of rain, flooding is the result. It makes me sick!
Those homes built on flood plains could well come to a sticky end one day!
Sorry to here about your wife wishing her a speedy recovery.
Great news to hear Mandy is on the mend 🎉.
Good on you Sandy. Couldn’t agree with you more.
New builds are thrown up with cheap materials look at these new estates not been up long looking tired already get well soon mandy nice to hear your on the mend
New housing estates look like Leggo sets.
They do Mike, awful isn't it
You made some very interesting
Points. Particularly about older people now being left lonely and cold in older properties. Witnessed in my own family. The result partly by our consumerists society.
It's not opening a can of worms, this started in the 80's and I don't see it ending now or anytime soon. Too many are getting fat off the misery of the masses.
Spot on Si, there has been a lot of development in Kernow.... You always have something wise to say
the 1780's ? Coming of industrialisation & urban dwelling.
Where we see beautiful woodland or farmland some people see an opportunity to build houses and to make money. Sad really.
Very interesting Sandy. We were lucky enough to grab a new build here on Purbeck. It was built on a brownfield site quite small with only 13 homes. The local developer has used local materials such as purbeck stone, brick, wood and render. All the houses are similar but all the surface finishes are mixed so we’re not all the same. As for new builds generally they can all tend to look very boxy. Thankfully ours has an old schoolhouse vibe.
Boxy sums up the new builds around here very well Bill, your new build sounds nice though, I shall have to pop down one day:)
Sandy mate, you navigated that subject like Magellan 😃 Nicely done 👍 You have my Full support - you should live where I live in Berkshire! Swindon will be just another "15 minute city", "15 minute neighbourhood", whatever, everything is included and you won't need to leave your bubble!
Lots of love to Mandy ♥️💋💋💋
One has to be careful what one says especially about stuff med in a shed :)
Hi Sandy
Glad to hear your lady wife is on the mend, and without too many complications, good news.
Your thoughts are exactly that "your thoughts" but they are common sense thoughts that a lot of us agree with. Keep having your thoughts and we thank you for sharing them.
Stay safe both of you and walk our pleasant land enjoying nature, while we can !
Firstly and most importantly i’m glad your wife is getting better WM. Secondly your right about the new builds, there crap. Builders back in the day took pride in their work, now you see builders vans driving like idiots and throwing rubbish from their vans. Not all are bad but a lot are. Unfortunately i cannot see things getting any better, especially under Starmer. All he’s interested in is money money money! Great video WM👍👌
Glad Mandy is doing well. May she continue to recover ✨
Hope your wife gets better. I agree especially about the family unit. I remember as a teenager in the 80s being asked constantly , if I was still at home like it was a crime . There must be hundreds of empty houses industrial areas that can be used instead of these areas. All the best sir.
Glad to hear Mandy is on the mend Sandy. New builds definitely have an impact on the local wildlife imo. The Bullwoods in Glasgow where I grew up as a boy has changed so much in the last ten years. I could walk in them and not see a single person all day. Full of butterflies, roe deer, buzzards, Tawney owls and wildflowers. Now we have the same cloned houses surrounding them and all the wildlife in the woods has gone. Walking tracks made by the dog walkers are all over the place with (trampled bluebells). These entitled dog walkers leave their bags of shit hanging all over bushes etc. My heart is broken sandy and I don't go there now. Atb Johnny
Good to hear Mandy is on the mend. The problem as I see it with, housing etc. is that as we are a small country, geographically, we have just about run out of room to sustain the population. The answer then is to reduce the population. How we do that is the problem. Limiting inward migration of people that will never benefit the country is a start. I'll leave it there!
Totally agree.
We used to be able to have conversations with one another, now it seems as though way too many people choose to turn the conversations into arguments. To some the conversations aren't complete unless there is some sort of issue risen that may require an element of some degree of controversial polarization of thought. I really do miss the earlier days when happiness and content were so much more prevalent. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this Sandy, I always enjoy hearing them. Take care and I will see you on the next one.
I entirely agree with your comments in the video. It's so refreshing to hear someone with a balanced view,and not blaming immigrants for the spread of housing. You are correct in saying it's all about the profits of developers and money lenders. That's why they don't build on brown field land as it costs them more money to decontaminate etc.
My advice is to get involved with your local council and oppose the developers where possible
Vote Reform in local elections to get the Cons and Liebour out and stop these huge developments from being built in the first place.
Well they are to blame. If the population of the country had not increased by over 10 million since 2019 then none of these massive housing developments would be needed. Not to mention all the other infrastructure that is needed when hundreds of thousands of new homes are built - roads, shops, schools, doctors' surgeries, hospitals, leisure felicities, etc. We never asked for this. It has been forced upon us and we who lived here all our lives are expected to pay for it!!!
Totally agree. There are plenty of brown field sites in built up areas. Once you build on countryside it has gone forever, such a shame. We all need somewhere to live, but the question needs to be asked why are they so expensive? Greedy estate agents, developers and builders are not helping anyone.
I share your sentiments mate. I’m sorry to hear about your wife, but so glad that she came through this relatively unscathed, wishing her the very best for a fast recovery.
Until you said it, I hadn’t thought of different styles of housing as you look at different areas but yes, you’re so right. Northamptonshire villages are built of honey coloured stone, same as in the Cotswolds, whereas my grandparents’ village in Wiltshire - those cottages are of a soft grey coloured stone. Bedfordshire villages are built of red brick, bricks made from the huge resources of clay in that county. Up north in the Peak District and Yorkshire you’ll see cottages built of dark grey grit stone. Norfolk cottages are of flint walls contained within patterns of red brick. Yet in all of these places the new housing developments are the same red brick boxes with grey tiled rooves, either that or houses made of large slabs of coloured material, white, blue, brown, grey with steel here and there, like some sort of European style house. Certainly not a regional British style! The answer to our housing crisis surely must be to build small terraced houses on brownfield land only, each house to have a small garden of about 20’ x 15’, enough to have somewhere to sit and somewhere to have a few raised beds for flower, fruit and veg.
Agree with you Sandy & yes hedgerows need to be spared.....made me think of the song Little Boxes. Pleased Mandy is going on well Jan from Bath
I live in Australia. Still plenty of open space here but the suburbs are awful. Houses that take up the whole block and hardly anything green. Everyone subdividing their big blocks. Luckily I am on 5 acres in the Perth Hills with lots of space and greenery around me.
I was last in the UK around 2010. I would take the train from London down to Falmouth on a regular basis. I noticed all the new estates being built. Also no space for gardens and just little houses on little blocks. Very depressing.
Cornwall off the beaten track was amazing though. Lots of green treed lanes and stone walls. That was the Great Britain that is part of my heritage.
I agree with you 100% Sandy.
P.S. my parents live with us on my block. My kids have grown up seeing their grandparents every day and we have supported each other as required to make life easier for all of us.
Thank you for the video, My husband and I got married in Stratton st Margaret parish church 48 years ago😊. Where the cold room is, there used to be to be Nisan huts near it or next to it, in the 50s or 60s.
Good to hear Mandy is on the mend 😊
I've followed you for a few years now, and it's so refreshing and such a relief to now learn that you're one of us. The awakened.
Nice one 👍
I always have been Paul but it hasn't been an easy journey.
@WiltshireMan Tell me about it. 1992 I woke up and even then I'm ashamed it took so long! Sometimes I've wished I was just a normie it's much easier.
Greedy developers won't allow gardens, they cram as many small living units as possible into a space for maximum profit.
I fail to see how anyone cannot regret every inch of land that gets built on.
Last year 700000 people entered the UK, the vast percentage by legal means, relatively few by boat.
It has been said we need immigration to do the work us Brits don't want to do and we also need the skills these people bring for the NHS and the care sector.
We're told with an ageing population and a low birthrate we need more people.
I'm not clever enough to challenge this but surely people who come to the UK and settle here will in time become old and need care themselves. What do we do then, bring more and more people into a relatively small country?
Glad your wife is on the mend
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said there Sandy. I live on the outskirts of Manchester, my wife’s family are farmers, I help on the farm as much as i can, especially during summer. Anyway obviously we know a lot of local farmers and you wouldn’t believe.. or maybe you would, how many have been approached by builders, or scouts that go around on behalf of the big builders putting big offers to the old farmers . A lot of the local farmers are struggling, as is everyone and when they get offered a big sum of money for their land, some just can’t resist. I never hear of the scouts badgering the farmers who are doing well, with their brothers, sons and grandchildren all helping in the day to day running of the farm, no, they badger the old boys living on their own, struggling. Its criminal and there should be a law to stop it happening we are loosing far too much greenbelt land. Go into Manchester and its full of skyscrapers with rich people living there. The old once beautiful parts of the city are run down, these are where they should be building new affordable homes not in our beautiful countryside 😡
100% agree.
Hi Phil, thats same thing happened to a farmer near here, the land now has a housing estate built on it. The govt need to change policy on all this new planning, its perverse and hell bent on money money money. It won't end well.
@@WiltshireMan we won’t be around to see the devastation but are childrens children will be
Totally agree with you on this, greenbelt was implemented for a reason, seems to have been swept away under successive monotonous government. Makes my heart bleed.
I already had the same thoughts and agree totally with you. there is also lots of room to build or extend in excisting towns and cities without stealing from the natural world. I live in a city and can see loads of space for apartments.
Very sorry to hear about your wife.
I do agree with your point of view, I think where I live the same thing is happening as well, but I think it’s more greed driven, it’s cookie cutter homes for as much as they can get with no thought or regard about anything else.
Green belt land needs to stay green belt land Sandy...our green and pleasant land is now under threat of over development....it's supposed to be protected. And back in history, families did live all together. When my dad's dad passed away, my dad went to work, putting food on the table for my great nan, my nan and five siblings and if you go right back in history, the children and grand children looked after their elders. Wolves do the same thing...the Alpha male, always at the rear of the pack, protecting the more vulnerable in the pack. For our own sanity, we need to be able to get back to nature, just to recharge and heal from the unnatural "civilised society" we have been forced in to.
Family is family Steve, we should do all we can for the family and that could well include living together wherever this is possible
I certainly agree with you that brown sites should be used more to build new houses. I have seen in my local area prime agricultural land now is full of houses. I feel we need more farmers and the ability to grow more of our own food and building on that land is short sighted. I hate to see trees chopped down it makes me very sad. I hope Mandy recovers quickly so sorry she has had a stroke how awful for you both. Praying she will heal totally.
I remember living in Haydon Wick and my house was on the outside edge with fields stretching for miles. Purton was a distant village. That gap is now very small and Swindon has spread out to become a huge housing estate but with no decent town centre. We still have some lovely countryside but it is slowly disappearing. Official statistics put the UK population at about 68 million but some suggest it’s much, much higher. I’m ok as I’ll be dead in 20 years but I do wonder what England will be like for my grandchildren. Good news about Mandy 👍
I reckon UK populations is nearer 80 million now. There are just so many many people every where. Travelling most hours of the day even minor roads now have heavy traffic where as 20-25 years ago they were empty for most of the day. Depressing.
@@alexmorgan3435 I often choose to cycle along the quietest roads I can find and it's never too long before a car goes past me!
Supermarkets say their data backs your figures.
Best wishes and get well soon to Mandy .
Our little two bed bungalow with woodburner , manageable garden and workshop/garage for the motorbikes is more than enough for us . I’m not a greedy woman! Don’t get me started on the thousand or so houses being built on farm land down here in Gillingham!
Keep them coming. 👍
u.n declaration of human rights quote "Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
That right is rapidly being taken away from everyone in the UK and US. We are becomming the Soviet Union.
Totally agree with you , Chipping Norton where i live, same thing , no infrastructure, turn the old railway line into tracks etc , my kids won’t afford the houses , like your hat by the way , I’d like one
Thanks Mark Yates
Great share as usual Sandy, so glad your Mandy is doing so well and on the mend ❤
Farming as we know it is under attack. Factory food is on the way, not just the normal processed food we know today.
Thoughts and prayers for Mandy. I've lived in a mainly peaceful era; my Grand children, who are around eight and ten, may not be so lucky. Big companies only see money not nature, they will build on our doorsteps! There are thousands of empty properties in Towns that could be repossessed and made affordable.
I’m with you on all accounts Sandy, don’t know how it’s going to pan out, but our generation certainly had the best of times, young people today will not be so fortunate.
Hi Sandy, I'm pleased to hear Mandy's health is improving, please send her my regards and hope to see her again in the future in one of your video's. I agree with you about the lack of infrastructure around these housing developments. Basically the population growth has been too fast in the last twenty years and uncontrolled immigration is making things worse. When taken together with, as you put it a certain group who have too many children per couple, which is part of their culture. I too don't know what the answer is, but I'm not afraid to say legal and illegal immigration needs to be brought under control, together with a two child policy , like the family allowance law which the current government has or will soon repeal and open up paying for as many children any couple may want to have and us tax payers will fund...............rant over. ATB Big Dave Scotland
I love it when you rant Sandy, talking about the things that matter the most to you. I feel like I am wearing the same shoes as you, and on many a note I follow what you mean. My thoughts seem to leek as you ramble on, and my mind can't agree more than my opinion's already does with each thought as you. I feel a connection at the best of times as my head nods in agreement. Peace and respect.
It's nice when someone agrees, I bet there will be a few that disagree, but I feel most who watch this will agree, but how to effect a change I am at a loss to understand at the moment.
True words I think.
Sandy, you are 100% correct. Hopefully all those new builds won't go to all those immigrants that have no agenda except to cause trouble and collect money from the government, commit crimes without any retribution like we have over here in a lot of our cities. It's disgusting how this country is going and yes I know you guys have more than your share of problems with those immigrants. It's a sad thing.
Dwayne
I wholly agree with you Sandy. It beggars belief that developers can get a plot of land and charge "affordable housing" which is way way above what young couples can afford. So its the bank of mum and dad, and inheritance which continually pushes prices upwards. The stress loaded upon the young is just not right. Its time that housing should be Govt / Council housing which is affordable at sensible levels, even housing associations charge disgusting rates in which its tenants choose to remain under Universal credit because as soon as they could manage to get a job they would be skinned alive by the sheer cost of a commercial rent.
I'm glad that Mandy is better. And I have enjoyed your rant and walk with your wonderful dogs.
Thanks Ralph, Good to see you out camping at Scot Chambers place the other day :) What you say is correct in my opinion. And yes, the dogs are wonderful :)
I agree with you 100%
Best of health to Mandy and to you also. From the US.
Totally agree
Glad Mandy is doing well Sandy. I agree that private estates and land management does well for the protection of our rural assets, furthermore, the nice thing about stealth camping is that we can virtually sneak into any beauty spot undetected and own it for an hour. 😊 Harry
Development is happening everywhere sandy it’s crazy just build build build. I got booted out the door at 17 to join up mind you I was paying rent to my mum at 16 as I was working full time waiting for the military to say yes 👍♥️ glad Mandy is feeling better and hopefully on the mend we have been thinking about her 👍♥️♥️ love to all the family carmen and zeta 🥰♥️👍☺️
Thanks Marcus, Mandy doing great now, Carmen and Zeta loving life :)
I have to agree with you , I think we are like locusts we are just destroying everything , as a Christian I don’t think we have to long ? I do wish and pray for your wife , I had a stroke a few years ago and have recovered. One of the thing I eat everyday is linseed seeds for the omega oils and I try to cut out processed food as much as I can as it no good for your heart or any part of your body but I do need to do more exercise . Well bless you and you keep speaking up as I know you care for nature.
Your exactly spot on, EVERYONE HAS an Opine, right or wrong, and we do not need approval or agreeance of others to have it!🍻✌🏻
I’m so sorry to hear about Mandy, Sandy. I really hope she is going well, my friend.
Good on ya Sandy keep up the great work mate all the best to your wife hope she gets better cheers Glenn.
As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves
Well said.
Wishing Mandy a speedy recovery ❤
I believe your thinking is quite sound Sandy. I have lived in some big cities, like Chicago and Phoenix and in some very country areas. I will take the countryside every time. The cities were not very bad places but you can't hear yourself think like you can out in the country. I think you're correct on the need for family living closer together too. Cost and care will move to the front of want, very soon everywhere. Maybe for the better but there will be a learning curve and if we are not careful the past will repeat itself.
It's happening to my closest green space. Hundreds of new houses being built, no credible planning to cope with the extra cars, dentists, doctors etc.
Hello Sandy. Glad Mandy is on the mend. Me and my girlfriend agree with u wholeheartedly. We have the same problems in nearby Wootton Bassett. Quite often enjoy a walk down our local canal and binknoll lane. (You might know it). 400 houses planned. Best wishes. Martin WB
I and many others that I speak to are totally in agreement with your opinions Sandy, and if I didn't agree, I would have the good grace and tolerance to respect that your opinion was different to mine.
You raise some good questions there, I am seriously concerned that our country is going bad, very bad. Too may people coming in… also there is an anti UK farming bent from the current and previous government. When we were children we were self sufficient locally for food, now… the UK imports 50% of its food so I recall someone saying and it’s going down… very very bad.
It is Martyn, I try and grow some of my own food in my garden, my house was built in 1959 so it has enough garden (just) to allow a small veg patch, modern builds not so lucky.
We agree with all you say Sandy, we use to hear the owls in bed at night time, long gone since they put the bypass in cutting our lane off. 1000 houses are being built on the farmland right by us. A lady I know wanted to move back to her family in Somerset . She wanted a new build as a cash buyer. Wherever she went it was the same story. Half were for shared ownership, the other half for asylum seekers .
That doesn't sound good Anne. It's a shame you can;t hear the owls anymore :(
Nice to see you with the dogs nice walking in the woods 🪵 nice to hear that Mandy getting back on her feet yeah is nice to see you back out stay safe sandy and stay healthy one life enjoy blessed be
As mentioned Sandy, it’s happening on huge scale in my neck of the woods. My old home town was a quiet town surrounded by farms. The farms are now all housing estates. Maybe it’s worthwhile building a 3 story house so you can bring your parents in & care for them should they need it. A generation on each floor! Either way Sandy I certainly think something needs to change. Wishing lMandy a speedy recovery. I wish you both the very best of health.
There's a lot to be said for having a larger home or for the family to club together and all share under one roof. It would be a lot cheaper for everyone
Great to hear Mandy is on the mend Sandy. ATB.
Glad to hear Mandy is getting better. Your family has certainly had your fair share of illness, but I feel it's made you strong. Wish you all the best.
As regards the subjects you raised, I completely agree. I could add plenty to it, as I'm sure you can... take care Grant 👍.
If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger is the saying :)
Recording historic sites and land , to me, is important for people to see what has happened and is happening to England as time marches on. Perhaps thats me just being a bit nostalgic.
Good on you Sandy, I'm of a similar age as you and have very similar views as you. Love your videos. Infact it's you that has inspired my to get back on my bicycle. Unfortunately I live in Essex and we are not blessed with many good cycle rides. (Far to busy roads). I know you patch a bit, I lived in Corsham for a while in the 70's and then in Frome in the 00's. Hope to get down your way next year for a bit of camping and cycling. Keep up the good stuff, all the best Danny
For the last 4 years I've been helping to rebuild the local canal. Not just water..... It's a blue, green corridor for wildlife and people.. a park space in linear form to preserve this corridor for wildlife and away from roads for people.
Excellent and what you say is very true
Same here in the States. Building on everything they can. Thank god for steep mountains. Even those are getting housed in any flat spot.
Glad that Mandy is doing OK. Yes to much building going on and all for the wrong reasons and it shouldn't be happening on flood plains either, but when it happens it should be for starter homes !
Well Sandy I agree with you 100% I grew up in the 70's and still live in what was a small village in the very south of
Gloucestershire
It is 3 times bigger now and has two massive new towns 2 miles in either direction so we have 24000 cars per day driving through, as you say I think things are coming to a head.
So true Sandy 100%.
Hi Sandy, Sorry to hear about Many, but very please that she is doing well, Give her all our very best wishes from the House of Moose.
As for the new build mate, its a shame, they are a necessary evil I'm afraid ,but I wish they do more to use what land that has already been despoiled, and not just take new land because its easy, " correction " Cheaper!",
All the best Sandy. 👍
Regards
Moose
Wiltshire man I am totally with you 👍
Sorry to hear about your wife ,hope she goes on alright.
Well said Sandy, everyone expects to be able to turn on a tap or flush the toilet and that’s that without a care of where the water comes from and where their waste from the toilet goes, the trouble is clean potable drinking water is a finite resource and if we keep building houses like we are then that resource is going to run out, it doesn’t matter how much new infrastructure is installed, if the original water resource be it ground or river based is over stressed then we will start to see potential for it running out, the government and building companies should only be allowed to build more houses if there is sufficient availability to supply and then take away the water that would be required, a bit of a ramble but it’s the truth 🤷👍
Happy to here Mandy is doing well!
So pleased to hear that Mandy I’d making a full recovery. Future housing development is a conundrum, with an ever increasing population they have to be housed, and land grabbing is popular here also, however, the trend is to build up rather than out and use more agricultural land, I hate high rise buildings, but it’s better than the alternative,. But I do agree with your assessment of the f trends, a bit disappointing how the world is heading.
Australia is a big place, I drive more than 20,000 km a year, so it difficult to get somewhere remote without long distance travel.
It seems houses nowadays are more to let people "function" rather than live. It's more about efficiency and profit than character. Those "boxes" are less organic. It's sad that the country side becomes almost a standard shopping mall with only shops from corporations.
The destruction of heritage buildings or deliberate neglect so they collapse or get torched by candles is a disgrace. The way we are destroying green land and developers being allowed to destroy grand historic buildings then replace them with bland flats or houses is quite shocking and more should be done to repurpose beautiful buildings.
In North London they even building on station car parks to fund Sadiq Khan’s mismanagement of TFL. The tower blocks they intend to build will be an eyesore for miles die to high elevations of the proposed developments. These have to be some of the most shortsighted and corrupt building developments ever passed in my opinion.
Nature cannot defend itself against the tides of destruction. Its preservation relies on people like yourself Wiltshire man. Your opinion is not just of a leyman. But rather the opinion of a soul who has cared about nature and the landscape for a long time. No wonder nature welcomes you with open arms.
Great to hear Mandy is doing well.
I love nature and beauty and see beauty everywhere Mick. I've heard it said that all it needs for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing. Not sure what I can do but voice my opinions at the moment. The funny thing about nature though Mick is that we are nature and therefore our decisions could also be nature and that includes the bad said of nature as well as the good side! We can only hope that the good side will prevail and I believe it will. Love never fails.
I love my rural surroundings and only being 5 miutes from a country park.Problem is we have a growing population and people need housing...Where I stay there is house estates being built in on the outside of town in rural areas.Its the only place they can build them.
Glad to hear that Mandy is doing so well! You are correct , you do have somewhat limited space for expansion on an island.
Understatement there Bill on the island :) Yes thanks Mandy doing great
I too wonder where all the people who move into these new houses are coming from. Where were they living before - were they all squashed into tiny flats and desperate for somewhere bigger? I doubt it. One thing I know for certain is that a lot of these new houses are lived in by single parents, so where previously a family lived in one house they now require two. Another thing is that families want bigger houses than they really need. The designs of these big estates are indeed horrible. I cycle round some of the new estates in Wantage and they are just soulless, and it's the same in Devon where my daughter used to live. They have tiny gardens and very little front garden. If you walk round the older estates they have bigger front gardens (though often paved over nowadays to make driveways) and it makes such a difference to the look of the place.
Around our way several new estates have been built and they look awful, also we’ve had to put up with HS2 swallowing up the land, destroying woodland and hedge rows and causing so much chaos to road networks.
Greetings from Flanders Belgium´´´´love your state of mind...history....nature ...Wish you the best into family
Evening Sandy, best wishes to your XYL for a speedy recovery.
I don’t know about the family staying in the family home, I’m trying to shut mine out the door but I think they’re too comfortable. 73s
Hahaa sounds like happy families to me Andy :)
Good news about Mandy 🙏👍 People already do live somewhere...don't they? Not like we live three generations to a house...along with the livestock...and most kids conceived in the woods and fields due to lack of privacy... The Church owns very little these days, but I agree with you over the ownership and management of private land, this is why I don't agree with an English, countrywide Right to Roam. With regard to using land for housing, that depends on how seriously 'they' take food security (I don't think they care, tbh).
I am more and more coming to the conclusion that the public (per se) and that includes me and my dogs should be excluded from some tracts of land, it is necessary for such a thing to allow a haven for wildlife. Regarding food security I don't think they care much, it seems that way to me too.
No matter the country, no matter the location, we are all being shoved into these crowded homogenized city plans. I live in what used to be a fairly quiet town. In the last ten years thousands of generic cheaply built tract houses have gone up, traffic infrastructure has not improved (even with major tax hikes), and peoples attitudes have gotten nastier and nastier. I gave up riding the push bike at all on any roads as it was taking my life into my own hands every time. I’ve nearly given up the motorbike as well due to all the crowding and peoples lack of care. I am looking at moving states away to a very rural area that has nothing to offer the masses, just what I want.
Love it ! Well done
Absolutely right Sandy when you talk about the style of newbuilds. We travel around the country in our campervan and no matter where you go all the new new housing developments are identical. I suppose it's all about money.
Streamlines the planning, just like all of our Identikit high streets.
Councils would approach EU with a tried and tested planning application , for funding, and so as a consequence you get the same tax dodging coffee shops pushing sugar.👍
You cannot say so but David hike ex snooker commentator had and has it right. I would urge all to listen to his current commentary. He has been right so far. It's going to be a hard time. I cannot begin to imagine imagine the changes you have witnessed environmentally and demographicaly in Swindon over 50 years. I have only been a casual witness over the last 30 or so. It's a total disaster tbh. Started watching you when you did guitar videos. . Love from Berkeley. ❤️