Fri, 02 Jun 2006
Demolition and Development // at 23:59
The house next door is finally going, the inexorable pressure of the
developers. Executive summary is to bulldoze the old house and build
two, two-storey town houses on the block. Flatten the garden and
cover what's left with concrete carparking. Our objections to council
of a two-storey townhouse looking straight down into our garden
overruled, not even acknowledged in the planning approval that we
received once the ruling was made. Last night we came home to realise
that pieces of the house are starting to go; a hole where the
airconditioner was, boards missing near the roof, what'll happen over
the weekend?
How will the building affect us? How will the building affect us?
Both noun and verb, I'm not looking forward to three months' worth of being woken up at 6am by builders crashing about, not sure what the final appearance of the two houses will be, just how intrusive they'll appear from our garden....
