Bit of a dilemma?

What do they do, dammed if they do and hypocritical if they don't.  A new planning application has been submitted for the piece of ground in front of the Packet Inn site.  At the moment there are empty houses on the site, houses more in keeping with a town than at the side of quite a pleasant side of the village with the old bridge over the Chesterfield Canal.

It is said that the houses have not been offered for sale due to the fact that all services are not laid to the properties.  Planning of course should never have been given in the first place, and given the amount of trouble that resulted, it would have been a good idea for the planning department at Bassetlaw to have turned the application down.

Moving on to 2014, our benefactors over the common land issue, who put money into the parish piggy bank, Wykeham Estates, have put in an application for three more town houses in a back garden, knocking the old extension that created a second residence down. So what does one do.  Nice little bungalow would have been nice, three town houses, not really in keeping, although a precedent has been set for terraced houses with those on that ill fated site and Bassetlaw want more houses.  Can't get any more in Misterton in big chunks because we are well over our limit for some years.  So a bit of infilling will do nicely for them, I bet the planners will rub their hands and say yay.  So we get even more town houses in a village.

I dread to think what the street scene will look like if they get passed. You can see of course where the access point is onto Station Road, which of course according to folk law, the Packet Inn site does not have as Wykeham Estates owns the common land, whereas we existing residents have full access.  Yet another tangled web.