Pickford Fields

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Work begins on a new £275m village covering 45 hectares with 900 homes.....a new development near Newport Pagnell
Taken early this morning R6 RF50 f1.8
Tickford Fields1 by brianvickers, on Flickr

[Trev B]

It looks a bit wet there Brian, please tell me they are not building on a flood plain - low lying mist!!
Down here they've just built a new town on the outskirts of Exeter - Cranbrook, it's massive was all good farming land.

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I think this was good farming land....I stay at a hotel there only once a year.....this was a few years ago....slightly different angle but the same land
_DSC3615 by brianvickers, on Flickr

[John Liddle]

We face a similar threat - 550 houses on good farmland - it will increase the size of our village by 25% in one go.

I know houses are needed, but in an increasingly fractious world, so is home-grown food!

Rant over - by the way, lovely first photo!

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I agree…brownfield sites first. The govt hasn’t learnt that we need strategic independence of food energy etc etc
thanks for your comments