Whilst driving to work I heard about a study done in Newcastle which showed Bumblebees can navigate up to 8 miles. I always thought they were quite local.
Anyway the above link has a another link to a story about rare species of Bumblebees facing extinction. This is all due to the building of houses for our "ageing and growing population". Now surely a more sensible option would be to build the houses somewhere else i.e. somewhere with less population density. What is this desire to concrete over the South East? That would encourage jobs as well.
Of course you often hear people from outside complaining about "all the good things" being built down South e.g. Wembley and that the Olympics are a London thing. Well people you can have the Olympics you can have the national stadium. Happy? Well you can also have that bloody airport they are building and the traffic congestion and.... no of course not. You'll continue to drive down from Stoke to use Stansted Airport.
I daresay we'll get all the window turbines as well. Mutter Mutter Mutter
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Obviously it's much worse where you are Pete, and one of the reasons I am so reluctant to move back. However I too get sick of seeing farmland around here being sold off now (poor old farmers....) and houses being built, and also being crammed in to every tiny little space between other houses. Everywhere I look lately they are ripping out trees and hedges, flattening with bulldozers and either building houses or new roads. One day, this entire land will be covered with roads, houses and people. There will be nothing left, because people just can't stop breeding. Thank god I won't be alive to see it.
doubt you could afford to move back. Property prices are mental......
stay there!! much nicer!!
It does seem bizarre that the government is encouaging thousands of homes to be built in a part of the UK that already has a permanent water shortage.
However, speaking as a selfish Northerner, I'm quite happy to see so much of Britain's "economic progress" confined to the South East!
Hooray - I knew I couldn't be alone in these thoughts. They say "we have to provide affordable housing for all the people we have now" and I shake my head and wonder how we got into such a pass to start with.
Roger - there are advantages. It means in a few years I can sell up and buy a house Oop North and still have dosh in the bank - well that's the plan.
Diddums - madness isn't it!
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