You are either totally contrary or a total bellend (both would be a fair guess). Sometimes just stop and consider the whole picture with a pragmatic view before diving straight in to be argumentative and shoot people down. This isn’t “a bit of land” It’s not a brownfield site This is an existing house of historical interest with a facade that has stood there for over a century and its ion a residential area of housing stock. Plenty of flats have been built 80 seconds walk from this plot and I’d hazard a guess many of those remain empty. Don’t fire off the guff about a housing shortage. That is balls and maybe you need to look deeper into how the murky world of empty plots works. If this was an old pair of garages or wasteland in the middle of a residential street then I’d be all for a HOUSE being built. Houses of a good stock just aren’t being built in this country anymore. I don’t count these dolls house estates being thrown up off of motorway skip roads; they are another mass produced problem for 25 years time. Back to the matter at hand. A developer will build what they are permitted to do (and push the envelope then). That is why it is for the council to do the decent thing and ensure the covenant governing this plot is honoured and the charecter of the street is retained

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Marlborough Road Over Development (Again)	29/10/25 09:48:00	Colin Goodman
Re:Marlborough Road Over Development (Again)	29/10/25 09:50:00	Paul James
Re:Re:Marlborough Road Over Development (Again)	29/10/25 10:33:00	Simon Hayes
Re:Re:Re:Marlborough Road Over Development (Again)	30/10/25 12:58:00	Colin Goodman
Re:Re:Re:Re:Marlborough Road Over Development (Again)	31/10/25 09:45:00	Paul James
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Marlborough Road Over Development (Again)	01/11/25 12:09:00	Colin Goodman
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Marlborough Road Over Development (Again)	01/11/25 15:38:00	Rosco White

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