Fields popular with walkers on the southern edge of Bath could soon either be closed off to the public or have houses built across them.
There's no third option then? No Reader, because if the landowner is thwarted in the attempt to build obver yet more green and pleasant land so Starmer can invite in more Third World savages, they'll simply play dog in the manger....
Plans to build 290 homes on the South Stoke plateau were turned down by Bath and North East Somerset Council’s planning committee in April 2024. But developers the Hignett Family Trust appealed, with the appeal before the planning inspectorate concluding on Tuesday February 11.The decision now rests with the planning inspector as to whether to dismiss the appeal and uphold the council’s decision, or to grant the appeal and let the development go ahead. But the agent for the Hignett Family Trust has warned that all public access to the fields will be blocked if the homes are refused.
Where's the Rambler's Society and those traspassing crusty trustafarians to hold protests about this? Suddenly, nowhere.
The fields have always been a popular place for people in South Stoke and Combe Down to go for a walk, with paths lacing across the field boundaries towards the Millennium Viewpoint. But if the homes are given the go ahead, a network of “new and enhanced” pedestrian and cycle paths would be installed across the remaining fields.
Yes, it's their land, and they can decide what to do with it, of course. But ugh, it's a reminder that the enemy is not always a council or government.
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Rambling had a start in the early 1900's when they did hold protests in order to open footpaths to the public. They were very left wing and socialists. Now these socialists are very chummy with rich landowners and capitalists. Why? Mostly because they have a mutual love interest, an immigrant invader.
They are the new protected classes…
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