It's hot and what you might call a glorious summer for a change. To mark the occasion we have another sewage collapse and the smell of you know what down Station Street. A possible reason for the collapse has been suggested as being due to railway traffic down Soss Lane, carting tons of stone in preparation for replacement of the railway bridges. They have now closed Station Road where it veers off from Station Street to repair the collapse, which means any more loads of stone will have to go over the little canal bridge on Station Road, plus all that other heavy traffic that tries to navigate the bridge, which in the past has included Stobart trucks. Another bridge collapse?
Anyway, if this tells us anything, it does tell us that our water and sewage pipes are not to 21st century standards and are all in need of major renovation before any further major house building takes place in Misterton.
I seem to remember some halfwit at a village meeting stating quite categorically that this village was flat! Flat my arse. As it currently stands the developers for the Gravelholes proposed site have not indicated how many houses they want on the land adjacent to the school, just publicising the bribes first to wet our appetite. Can you imagine what will happen if these got built, a high point in the village, and water travelled down. They argue that the pipes on new properties are larger nowadays, they probably are, but they join smaller older ones and this village's drainage is old.
I doubt it will get through, unless somebody falls asleep on watch. Bassetlaw would be delighted if it went through, all they think of is council tax, the more the merrier for them. There are of course some people who think it would be a good idea and we are all entitled to our views.
Let's just hope it doesn't all end in tears.
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