FURTHER to last week?s anonymous correspondent who bewails the loss of ?green space? through the development of Laburnum site in Exeter Road, who, they ask, is to gain from this?
As owners of property directly opposite Laburnum, strangely enough my wife and I think we will. To a certain extent we have to support him/her in that increasing loss of green space is detrimental to our town.
Nevertheless, it is fair to point out that the once dominant feature of Laburnum, in its imposing position (until two weeks ago) had become but a shadow of its former glory. The large house and other buildings had been regularly vandalised, totally beyond repair.
Likewise, nature quickly took back the once productive gardens, resulting in a decade of impenetrable scrub and bramble growth. We were witnessing deterioration at an ever increasing scale.
What madness, to allow this to continue, in what might now accurately be described as ?near the town centre?.
We hope the new development will bring credit to the developer and that the people who come to live near us will be happy living in this part of town.
Whilst all the necessary road works are in progress it might present a suitable opportunity to create an ?off road bus pull-in point?, again worth considering.
So, as with everything, we have the plu=ses and the minuses. Life, as they say, is a compromise!
Ted Cann
11 Exeter Road
Okehampton