Down here in Sussex, the pressure to build new houses is immense. As a result, adverts for such new houses appear in the local paper all the time, with a large number of them being found in what used to be called estates but are now called villages.
A lot of marketing effort in Bolnore has been aimed at families, including this new development. For example, the advert in my local paper celebrates the fact a new school is being built nearby, and that 'proposals for a doctors surgery are in place'. What it doesn't say is that it's taken the best part of nine years for the proposals for a school to come to fruition. How long for the doctor to arrive? How long before we start building genuine communities, ab initio without which any claims to sustainability are surely unfounded?
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