'There is actually planning in for about 350 houses on four sites for the village. The schools are full, there are no jobs and it's a dormitory village for Durham. Like you, the bus services have been reduced recently.
If the other sites are built on it would be better, as our lane is just that. Sounds very much like yours, in fact, and it cannot be widened except onto the site.'
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Since then we have had £1 million flood defences built in the village.
It was finished in October; flooded again in November.
Our Welfare State. Is it broken?