open grass reas where you live'

[legend758duo]

are there any open grassareas where you live ?i know there used to be a lot , but most councils have sold them off to supermarkets or diy stores.whats happened to the green areas of this once green and p`leasant land?
there were some folk in the abr from tipton.they said anywhere in tipton wheer there a bit of grass you find a horse tied up on it .something to do with p�keys they said ????

[Octavius]

Plenty of greenbelt land where I live, but with a growing population some of it has to make way for housing, we are not forest-dwellers anymore.

The latest initiative is to develop on brownfield sites, but in many cases this is cost prohibitive because of the extent of treatments required to remedy the polluted or previously inhabitable land, to make it fit for residential development.

[redcrx]

Im looking out of the back window of house over about 2 acres of grassland which is a playing field.
Beyond that is about 15 acres of football fields.

[whiffey]

As a country person at heart I feel cooped up in London, but at least I am on the edge of Mitcham Common which is very large and has some surprisingly secluded corners and one particularly good track which because it leads from nowhere really to nowhere else really is rarely used - so I go there a lot.

The problem of your beloved pikeys has been solved for ages now by decent earth bunds and deep ditches.

Also very close to Croydon Cemetery, same applies, people don't go to cemeteries much - so I do.

[stewey]

Is it really crowded over there? I live about 2 miles away from the shore of Lake Ontario into which, they say, you could plop England and still have room left over. Yet you have about 60 million people living there: I find that amazing! Are you not tripping over one another?

[raysparx1]

It is completely open where I live, no crowds plenty of fields it is beautiful


Why do you use the word pikey legend ? my family are related to gypsies, and to me it is an offensive word if you refering to the gypsy people, pikey is a term that was used for a gypsy that had been thrown out of the tribe for wrongdoing

[Baby Jane]

Our fast diminishing "green and pleasant land" is to be built on next year by Asda,we have lost our famous 100 year old football field (Jack and Bobby, Jackie Milburn etc) and our colourful "Flea market" Asda are reallocating from half a mile away, folk in our little town do not want this,but who listens to the ordinary people eh? The area is covered with rabbits,foxes have been seen, badgers and differant species of birds, to be seen no more. Times must change I know, but at what cost. Sorry for whinging but it really does sadden me

[whiffey]

stewey, despite being cooped up in Croydon, I can within about 10 miles find a place where on a weekday I can 99.99% guarantee that I won't see another human being all day, just fields and trees, and I'm keeping it to myself.

[stewey]

I'd be greatly saddened by that also, Baby Jane. Is there absolutely no way of stopping that mutilation of nature?

[stewey]

Whiffey, I certainly hope that what is happening to Baby Jane's little paradise doesn't happen to your secluded spot.

[Baby Jane]

stewey
No stopping it unfortuntley, we have tried. Some of our much loved old buildings have gone under compulsory purchase. New folk to our town think its a wonderful improvement, maybe so, but I still want to see some greenery. Thanks for caring
xx

[raysparx1]

Baby Jane that is such a crappy thing to do, makes me sick the way this sort of thing happens, big companies are taking over with offers of oh let us do this and we will build a leisure centre, and the councils fall for it, the leisure centre in most cases consists of a small gym, what a joke, sometimes they never even get built,

[saxy_jag]

There's an ex-playing field across the road from my house. The playing field bit is own (but not used) by a local college who keep it mown, and secure, but that's all. The borders of it are owned by the council. The council are after buying the college's bit so that they can build houses on it, but there's a fair amount of protest from the community (and Patricia Hewitt, bless her, is doing her share too - she's our MP). They can't build without the college land because they have no access without it. It's a gorgeous swathe of land - probably around six or seven acres. Loads of us walk our dogs there or play football, cricket and golf in the summer. Sometimes families just take their kids over there and sit around nattering whilst the little ones play. We have some of those mini-motorbikes on occasion too, but they rarely cause any trouble because there's enough room them to stay out of everyone else's way.

We'd all hate to lose it but it seems the change to building land is inevitable. At some point the college will give in to the council's pressure, and I'm not looking forward to it one bit.

[bongovanman]

loadsa grassy area in glasgow tho innercity areas seem to be taken up with the doggers after eight

[Goodsoulette]

lots of parks and greens and I only have to walk 5 minutes and im on our green belt which the council are very touchy about. We are surrounded by hills anyway so its not gonna become a built up area.

[Iggle Piggle]

If anyone from Derbyshire/Staffordshire or surrounds knows of any land that is unwanted or has a derelict house on it, let me know, cheers.

[legend758duo]

ray.
pikey is sarf london .
never seen snatch????

anyway its joe the pikey from brighton and his clan im on about.

im sure theyre well down the evoloutionary scale to your family

[Memore]

loads in SE London - Greenwich - Blackheath - Plumstead common woolwich common and winns common all in an area of about 6 miles square its great as long as you on Kent side of Plumstead Common near Welling

[raysparx1]

legend i am from sarf London, (Bermondsey) and it may be used there now, well in films anyway, but it is a gypsy term, I just hoped you weren't using it to insult gypsies that is all,