https://spaldingvoice.co.uk/planning-appeal-lost-but-spalding-fence-owner-vows-to-fight-on/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=planning-appeal-lost-but-spalding-fence-owner-vows-to-fight-on of Spalding and South Holland Sun, 09 Aug 2015 12:46:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.5 https://spaldingvoice.co.uk/planning-appeal-lost-but-spalding-fence-owner-vows-to-fight-on/#comment-188 Sun, 09 Aug 2015 12:46:28 +0000 https://spaldingvoice.co.uk/?p=32583#comment-188 The trouble is that back in the 1970’s when many Spalding Estates were built there were deliberately, as part of the planning application, spaces and areas of green land left to both enhance the area and also in many cases to provide better visibility round corners etc. These areas were never formally adopted by the Council, some were beautifully maintained, and others weren’t. What appears to have happened over the years, and this is just one example of many is that as original owners died or moved on the collective memory of these spaces disappeared, and new owners have effectively “land grabbed” and then fenced round them. The result is that some people have significantly increased their available garden space, whilst depriving the locality of not only a safer visual aspect but also a refreshing green area to open up an estate. The Council has to take some ownership of this, in many cases it is far too late and the damage has been done. I doubt that there would be the time, money or inclination to go back to the original plans to see what was intended and re-instate it, but the lesson needs to be learnt for the future especially with the number of new estates with such green areas in them

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