Just a quick note to mention that this morning we went for a walk around a place that looked really nice on Google Earth. On the map it appeared to be a series of lakes near the new Hamilton housing estate. When we got there we found the following list of environmental damage
1) Places where cars had obviously been burned
2) Milky pollution in the brook
3) Giant bags of building material floating in the lakes
4) Huge piles of dumped building material
5) Big piles of commercial refuse
6) A huge alluvial quagmire leaking from a huge hill of displaced topsoil
7) Unstable sticky topsoil
It was like Chernobyl! All of this damage had been created at the same time as the nearby housing estate was built. What looked like pristine agricultural land on Google Earth is now a wasteland. If the people that propose to build 5000 houses at Barkby and Thurmaston are the same people that have left this mess or those responsible for leaving access open to fly tippers then the council should refuse their application on environmental grounds.
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