We moved into our house in March, its an old house built in the 1760s and needed a lot of work doing to it - you can imagine. It had gotten too much for the previous owners and everything was very tired and grubby. We've started work on doing it up with the view of it being our forever home or for at least the next 20 plus years. New boiler, new kitchen,new bathroom, the list goes on complete re decoration.
Its a corner plot surrounded by older houses to the left of our house is a large open green field across a narrow road / lane, on Saturday we had a letter through the post saying theirs plans for 30 houses along this busy stretch of rather small road, creating a new housing estate of homes for rent. We knew nothing about this development although apparently it was granted permission 7 years ago for 12 new houses, the previous owners never mentioned anything and nothing came up in the searches.
Naively we just thought it was allotted "green space".
I can just about manage with the level of traffic we're very close to a busy school and main road, this letter has come as a huge shock and huge disappointment, I understand everyone needs a home but the proposal has got the whole neighbour hood completely disillusioned.
I went to the meeting yesterday, spoke to some lovely local councillors who all believe its a done deal and the meeting was just going through the motions and ticking boxes. They've even got the schedule worked out and if all goes through they be putting in a new junction across from my driveway in the spring.
Our initial thoughts were we've got to move, because it will just be to much traffic and noise in already built up area. But the house is in no condition to just put on the market and I wouldn't / couldn't sell the house to some unwitting buyer.
Previous owner still pops round and we still have to drop of their post as they've moved into rented, is it unreasonable to think they should have mentioned it ?
Would welcome any opinions just need some clear advice as I feel heartbroken and in limbo x Can't even think about christmas now.
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