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Nothing Lasts Forever
Jul. 28th, 2021 11:16 amWe did the circuit we often do- driving from Matfield where we live to Brenchley where the doctor's surgery is to Paddock Wood where we visit the charity shops- and then back home again- and on the way passed five sites where this is happening...
Small villages are swelling into large villages and large villages are swelling into towns- and the in-between places are ceasing to be lanes and becoming streets- and none of it thrills me greatly. I ask myself whether anyone apart from the construction firms and the politicians they fund really benefits from this- and note that none of the sites look like they feature the kind of homes the nation actually needs- by which I mean small, modest homes that people who aren't bankers or hedge-funders can afford.
And then I wonder what will happen to these new houses when the population begins to shrink- as I'm fairly sure it will- and this conjures up a cheery vision of the roofs collapsing and the walls being robbed out- as happened in Dark Age Britain when the Roman soldiers left- and the trees and grasses moving back in until only archaeologists can read the signs that show they were ever there at all...
Small villages are swelling into large villages and large villages are swelling into towns- and the in-between places are ceasing to be lanes and becoming streets- and none of it thrills me greatly. I ask myself whether anyone apart from the construction firms and the politicians they fund really benefits from this- and note that none of the sites look like they feature the kind of homes the nation actually needs- by which I mean small, modest homes that people who aren't bankers or hedge-funders can afford.
And then I wonder what will happen to these new houses when the population begins to shrink- as I'm fairly sure it will- and this conjures up a cheery vision of the roofs collapsing and the walls being robbed out- as happened in Dark Age Britain when the Roman soldiers left- and the trees and grasses moving back in until only archaeologists can read the signs that show they were ever there at all...
