Snowy fields looking towards the Industrial Estate

My old stomping ground!

What a lovely picture. The industrial estate blends in quite well!

lts getting more developed every year Karen, there are plans to build nearly up to this pathway.

Thanks Melchi it does at the moment not for much longer I fear.

oh no, I hope not....that would be awful!

It was going to be a biofuels factory but think they have pulled out, it has to be landscaped with trees to the right hand side of the path and all fenced in so it will make it more secure which had to be done before they built the factory. For some reason it has not happened. All round the back of us is supposed to be a new housing development, Brian Moulds has been given notice to quit his farm when they get around to his land. Shame but we do not think it will affect us because there is a lot of land to be developed b efore they get to that.

Oh my goodness! That's awful! Poor Brian! Oh, I am really shocked..really? that's terrible. Would you ever think about moving on? Do you worry that they will buy up your bit as well? Oh no, I know how much you love living there, and your garden and all.....sometimes I hope the recession goes on, then they wont build on Brian's farm or on the fields around us, which are also planned for more new houses. :( That's a terrible selfish thing to say isn't it, but I don't want to live in a ghetto! Some of the estates nearer to Dundee are horrendous...hundreds of homes, no access to shops without a car...just houses and houses....beautiful great big ones that we could never afford to buy, but I wouldn't want one....I like being part of the town and able to walk to the shops etc. If I couldn't do that I'd move to somewhere much smaller and more private, not to a great massive sprawling suburb with no services and everyone out all day long at work all the time...it would be like living in a ghost town! Gosh, sorry, I'm ranting, but you've really shocked me with that news :(

Well - my remark about the industrial estate was intended to be ironic. It's not a pleasant thought to think of farming land being bought up in order to extend these places. Surely we need all our agricultural land, quite apart from aesthetic considerations?

You're right there Melchi. I have a friend in the agricultural industry reckons in 25 years we're in big trouble re. food! And all that horrible derelict industrial land...clean that up and build on there....says she who lives in an ex potato field.....

the plan is for thousands of houses to be built on the farmland, shame I know, the other thing I worry about is where are they all going to work, no manufacturing in town anymore. So who will be able to buy them, they will be stood empty for years. Unless we are going to get some major development with industry. lol I think not. The land owners are only interested in the money they can make from selling and developing the land. They are never happy with their lot they just want more and more and less work for getting their money. As oh says ' I do not see it happening in our life time' so we will sit it out and hope that they take a long long long while to build. lol.

I'm sure he's right....there's not much building going on anywhere right now.

thats so true, all the building trade is in the doldrums. Phil retires this year and he is pleased because there is nothing doing up in the area where he works around Leeds.

I remember that field, Karen! Still - that's hardly your fault!!! So true about brownfield sites, though. I'd have thought developing them was an excellent way to regenerate urban areas.

Yes,and to be fair, they do do that a lot more now. Our docks are full of new flats and shops,as are the ones at Edinburgh, so things are improving in that way, but still far too many old industrial buildings lying derelict for too long. If there were more women in power, the country would be a lot 'tidier' and aesthetics would be more of a consideration! Lol!

Right on! :-)) You're right, though - there is a lot of development in the Liverpool docks as well. There's an old tobacco warehouse, though, that's now a listed building. Apparently, it has very low ceilings - about 6 feet - because the rooms were designed just for storage. That renders it useless in its present state, but it can't be developed because it's listed. How silly is that?

Very! That's another thing that needs addressing.....silly conservation rules! Women required there also!

Obviously only small people allowed to develop the old mill, lol.

Affordable homes for the 'vertically challenged'! Nice one!

Lol!

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thanks Gudia - pleased you like it :O)