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House building, big landscapes and forests - do you notice?

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SueDonim Tue 18-May-21 14:58:14

I live in a rural area and not much has changed here, due to much of it being only suitable for grazing. A lot of timber had been felled in commercial forestry areas, though, which has led to ‘bald’ areas on the hillsides! They’ll be replanted eventually.

However, leaving our nearest city recently, we had to take a diversion due to road works and we were astonished to find a completely new village had been built, complete with services and a Sainsbury’s! shock

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grannyactivist Tue 18-May-21 11:20:51

I live in a small seaside town and locally there has been a lot of (much needed) house building going on (but of the wrong sort), which is obviously changing the landscape around us. Nearby we have a large National Trust property and several smaller ones, plus a beautiful forest, Dartmoor, several rivers - and these are habitats for some amazing flora and fauna, but flooding, usage and climate change are affecting how they're developed.

Community Forests seem to be springing up in urban areas, flooding is increasing and affecting the landscape, farming methods are see-sawing between huge conglomerates and small specialist farms and smallholdings as more people want to know the provenance of the food they're eating - and post-covid it's anticipated that more people will want to move to rural areas.

The de-regulation of Planning is already affecting the rural fringes of local towns and villages and I'm wondering if any other Grans have been noticing substantial changes in the landscape of their local area, whether urban or rural?

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