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Re: 5 New Houses to be built on the Bond Garage Site
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There's little doubt in my mind that this is only the first phase of a larger house building program at Avebury - the next phase being the conversion of the caravan park behind the Bonds Garage into houses. The garage occupies only about a quarter of the land that could eventually be developed. If five houses are planned for the Bonds Garage site then at least fifteen more houses could be built behind it, thereby creating an estate of about twenty houses at the very edge of the Avebury Henge.

I hope I'm wrong about this but the following from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ear[...]th/2008/01/07/eaavebury107.xml is interesting -

"Avebury parish council and residents of the mobile home park behind the garage, however, are wholly in favour of the proposed new homes." (italics mine). I can't help wondering why the residents of the caravan site are 'wholly in favour' of these new homes. Could it be that the residents of the caravan site will be moved off (and compensated for the inconvenience) while new 'affordable' housing is being built there - perhaps even given first option on buying those units? Although I have some sympathy with the caravan site residents, in so much as they naturally want to improve their housing, such a development comprising some twenty new houses would be just too close to the Henge itself.


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Littlestone
Posted by Littlestone
15th January 2008ce
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