Feeling shocked and sad

I finding out such a lot of info via the Internet that I'd best not put too much info here. Suffice to say there's some decidedly dodgy stuff going on and others are also on the case. Won't bring the house back though but might save some others.

Jane10, I can imagine how you must be feeling. What a shock for you. As has been said before no-one can take your wonderful memories away from you but I wouldn't let it go. Make a fuss especially if permission hasn't been granted to demolish it in the first place. Let us know how you get on.

How dare these developers just take over.
As the old saying goes " there's no sentiment in business " though I doubt with these sort of people that there ever was.

It's these old properties that are still standing when other modern builds have collapsed in a heap. Why not do up these houses instead of bulldozing them ? A lot cheaper than starting from scratch.

It's all about money and the need to throw up cheap houses using the cheapest materials and charging the highest price. It's obscene.
It is always heartwarming to know that our once next-door neighbour my friend of over 70 years purchased both hers and my parent's house together to preserve for posterity. 2 houses in one which are still in keeping with the remaining row-----lots of land at the rear also which I'm surprised that the land-grabbers haven't noticed. It's an old original area of how it used to be.

If houses were built as they used to be nobody would mind so much,but they aren't and certainly won't last a lifetime.

How awfully sad for you. Even if they fined and still refused PP nothing will bring the house back.
My GPs house, 300 years old was sold after their deaths, in the late 70s. It was not listed so the new owners ‘modernised’ it with DIY store, windows and doors, and pebble dashed the stone exterior!
It was recently on the market, modernised again. This time all the original features were removed and mock Victorian woodwork put in their place.
Heartbreaking.

Salford?

It wouldn't bring it back, Jane but it might make others think twice about taking a wrecking ball to houses where they don't have clearance to do so. Negative publicity would be bad for their reputation.

Elegran I suppose I could tell the Evening News etc but that wouldn't bring the house back. I'll certainly speak to the planning officer concerned as I've downloaded all the documents so I know the names involved. The poor next door nieghbour sounds pretty desperate judging by their objection letter.

I am so sorry, my DH family home was compulsorily purchased in the late 60's when huge redevelopments were going on in London and to this day he talks about it and all the memories, thats the thing they can't take them away. I expect the Local Authority already know what has happened but do check, the trouble is the fines are so small many Developers will take a chance. We just lost a fine old pub here which disappeared overnight about 2 years ago, the site is now derelict and nothing seems to be happening.

Tell the Evening News too, Jane If you have any photos of the house in its heyday, send them to the News. They like human interest stories, and they can do "before and after" pictures.

I'd be interested to know the name of the developer. Don't know whether you'd be in trouble with HQ for posting it - though as it is true I don't see why not. Name and shame?

That makes me feel sad and angry.
There's an old victorian primary school near us, which I fear for. I think it's listed or it would have come down already. Developers are poised. The chimney has been removed. Windows boarded up. I think they are waiting for it to rot and become an "Eyesore" so nobody will care
I haven't the energy to start a campaign.
Remember "Jane10" they can't take away your memories.

The house that my mother grew up in was No. 1 Main Street. My Grandad had his tailors shop in the front room. I remember the larger than usual front window. It, and the house next door, plus the garage beside them were demolished years ago to make way for a new Co-op supermarket.
To be fair, the authorities consulted my mother to ask for her approval before they went ahead.

The planning application I found was to fit 6 new houses in. No wonder it was refused.

I remember taking DH to show him where my grandparents had lived (I could just about remember) and it had gone.
Presumably all was in order and not illegal and there was some new housing there but also a nice open space and a small play park where they used to live.

This happens a lot here unfortunately. We have a road which was mostly small 1920s bungalows on very large plots. The bungalows are all mostly demolished and large, nay enormous, houses just feet away from each other, with big gates and double garages built in front so that’s what the owners see from their windows, because there’s no side space left. You must feel very sad. Def let planning know.

That's shocking Jane10. I know how sad and angry I would be if that happened to my grandparents' home - my Dad's childhood home. I do hope a prosecution will follow, but that won't bring back that lovely house.

How distressing, Jane.
I'm not sure of the law in Scotland but I think the developer could be prosecuted in England.

I will still let the planning department know they've done it. It won't make any difference but it may mark the developers' card. I kind of want to do something!!

Developers seem to get away with everything, if they are refused permission to demolish a row of 400 yr old houses they take the roof off, work then gets delayed until the houses are unsafe and have to be demolished, and they get away with it. A small fine doesn’t deter them, they do the same with trees.

Locally that has just happened.

Cherish your memories, sadly I think that so many older houses, especially those with gardens will soon be knocked down and have new homes built on the land.

The government want new homes and the local authorities need the money that the Council Tax brings in, most of the fields around our village have new housing estates on them, most of them large expensive houses, so not even affordable to local families.

Developers have a way of just carrying on doing what they want, not so long ago a developer had to rebuild a pub in London that they demolished even though they had been refused permission to do so.
You must have been sad to see no house.

Jane, I am sorry, I often look on google earth to see my grandparents home, my fsther was born there, I was born there and spent my childhood there, if that was bulldozed I would be devasted , it holds such happy memories . Hold onto your memories x