Neighbours fight plan to surround £60m estate with four mile wall.

 

1. Nearly half of the wall will run through the woods anyway, where nobody will see it.

   And I’m sure all the bricklayers are unionized, right? That’s a year’s work for 8 good layers plus support workers, nearly 2 million bricks (1,883,628 for a double brick 8’ high 4 mile wall). And the wall needs a foundation, so that’s another year’s work for diggers, tree cutters, rebar men, concrete pourers, et cetera. Sounds like a nice boost for the local economy.

   Posted by Drew458       02/18/2010  at  12:35 PM  



2. Sounds like a nice boost for the local economy.
   

   I thought so too and not only that. Besides his own ppl, that is, muslims. He’s bound to have locals working the property as well. Long term it will probably work out. But I still think it’s shame all that countryside has to have a wall after all these years.
   But I understand the need.

   Posted by peiper       02/18/2010  at  12:47 PM  



3. Maybe he should put in his wall at the bottom of an extra wide haha. He gets his security and nobody has their view disturbed. Plus extra work for the shovel brigade!

   Posted by Drew458       02/18/2010  at  04:39 PM  



4. So the neighbors are complaining that they are losing the view that they have enjoyed for free? What has kept them from getting together and buying the property before this fellow did? Suppose you buy a house next to a vacant lot with lovely trees. You enjoy the view of the trees for years, your children play in the lot, etc… One day you find that it has been sold to a fellow who plans to build a house on it. Oh no, what about my lovely view? If it was such a big part of your life, why didn’t you buy the lot yourself, thus ensuring that you would continue to enjoy it?

   Posted by TheOldMan       02/18/2010  at  06:16 PM  



5. "Security” or “We don’t want the villagers to see our jihadi training camps”????

   Someone needs to keep an eye out....

   Posted by TimO       02/18/2010  at  09:10 PM  



6. So, did they contract with the Chinese to build this Great Wall of Windsor or what??

   Posted by Rich K       02/19/2010  at  12:12 AM  



7. why didn’t you buy the lot yourself, thus ensuring that you would continue to enjoy it?
   

   I don’t disagree but I have to share this with regard to that question.

   Answer: Lack of funds.

   The old house next door to us was vacant for perhaps 25 years. Built in the 1920s like ours, the wife’s mother used to look after it and make it look lived in. It’s nice property (or was) and the price was always out of our means. Anyway, the family that owned it wouldn’t sell until the daughter of the original owner died, which she did a few years ago.
   She couldn’t part with her girlhood home, even though she hardly ever came down here from London.  Married to a Harley St. heart surgeon, they had oodles of money and kept the heat running year round even in summer, had lawn and hedges seen to, electric and phone still on and working, and a cleaning girl to come in and dust once every two weeks. (they also had a home in Switzerland btw) Sadly, the old girl passed away and the house went on the market.
   Last April it was demolished and an huge new house that crowds us and blocks out the sky on one side, the chopping down of some very nice shade trees that bordered us, oh well.
   The family who bought the property paid almost one million dollars in American terms, and damn near as much to rebuilt a new state of the art house.  Not a chance we could do that.
   Had we the money, we’d have bought it just to keep that side clear.
   But hey ... that progress I guess. Grumble.:(

   Posted by peiper       02/19/2010  at  09:13 AM  



8. I’m with TimO on this one - a wall that high has to make one wonder, exactly what the real purpose for it and the property is.

   Posted by wardmama4       02/19/2010  at  09:39 AM  

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