Urban Sprawl

Description: Are they paving your corner of paradise to put up a parking lot?

Newest Review: ... - And where you've homes you've shops and schools, With playing fields and swimming pools And access roads and parking lots, Until the landscape's joined-up blots. 'So be it,' you might say. Indeed, It could be argued that we need Aspiring folk like these to fuel Our country's growth and the renewal Of each succeeding generation. Where this entails a vast migration To countryside that's ... more

... thereby lost, Well, all advances have their cost. If round our towns the pinch is felt, We'll have to loosen our green belt - That's what our government believe, And just for once they don't deceive Us citizens as to their aim, But seem content to take ...more

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Urban Sprawl: Countrycide (896 words)
by - written on 10/08/09 (Very useful, 212 readings)
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There is on another opinionating website a topic entitled "What can be done about the urban sprawl in Dorking?" for which this was first written. Why they picked on Dorking I don't know, but I hope that bit of background explains why the review, which is really about urban sprawl in general, focuses on that particular locality. ____________________________________________________________ Dorking is a market town Of no great glamour or renown, But some antiquity and charm And archetypal English calm. In country to light up your eyes - Lush, green and pleasant - Dorking lies A score of miles from the City ... Read the complete review

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