{"id":39555,"date":"2017-01-04T01:32:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/missed-opportunities-of-garden-villages-plan-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-01-04T01:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:51:25","slug":"missed-opportunities-of-garden-villages-plan-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/missed-opportunities-of-garden-villages-plan-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed opportunities of garden villages plan | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRegarding the proposal to develop garden villages and garden towns to bring about 50,000 homes (Report, 2\u00a0January): in my lifetime pleasant villages and small towns were scattered the length and breadth of Britain. Many of these agreeable places to live were destroyed by the dismemberment of our industrial sector, or submerged by building on every plot of land until they disappeared into an urban mass.How many decayed or decaying homes remain in the abandoned towns of old industrial areas of Britain? The nation would be better served if our energies were devoted to recovering abandoned industrial sites, renovating repairable existing properties, or clearing away what is derelict and building on recovered land. The problem with the Tory plan is that it is the product of the old mining culture. Work out a seam and move on, leaving an industrial scar nobody wants. The Tories and the developers are not building a new Britain. They are mining what is left of Britain\u2019s agricultural heritage.Martin LondonHenllan, Denbighshire Continue reading…
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