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[Lizzie_Zoom]

Now in China they do things rather differently if you protest about a national building project, like trying to stop a road being built!



http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/offbeat/road-built-round-home-in-china-16241576.html

 

[The Red Baron]

wow. 

[BazaJT]

Beats the farm between carriage ways of M62 hands down!!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Even Swampy of Newbury fame could not have stopped this.  If he had tried the road would have been built on top of him!

[tunnie]

We need that kind of thinking for Heathrow's 3rd Runway 

[Rods2]

We need that kind of thinking for Heathrow's 3rd Runway 

What Swampy or a new house? 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

We need that kind of thinking for Heathrow's 3rd Runway 

Yes, and the HS2 rail link tunnie

Still, the way the Coalition is thinking, speeded up planning processes will become the norm.  However I do not think we will match the Chinese practice!

Only a communist or national socialist state could do that

[STMO123]

We need that kind of thinking for Heathrow's 3rd Runway 

Yes, and the HS2 rail link tunnie

Still, the way the Coalition is thinking, speeded up planning processes will become the norm.  However I do not think we will match the Chinese practice!

Only a communist or national socialist state could do that

"Coalition is thinking.........".   No.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

We need that kind of thinking for Heathrow's 3rd Runway 

Yes, and the HS2 rail link tunnie

Still, the way the Coalition is thinking, speeded up planning processes will become the norm.  However I do not think we will match the Chinese practice!

Only a communist or national socialist state could do that

"Coalition is thinking.........".   No.

You pessimist Steve!!

[SIR Philbutt]

Beats the farm between carriage ways of M62 hands down!!

Yep but think this was a better solution

[STMO123]

Beats the farm between carriage ways of M62 hands down!!

Yep but think this was a better solution

A lot of people think it's like that because he wouldn't sell up. Not so.

[Varche]

We need that kind of thinking for Heathrow's 3rd Runway 

Yes, and the HS2 rail link tunnie

Still, the way the Coalition is thinking, speeded up planning processes will become the norm.  However I do not think we will match the Chinese practice!

Only a communist or national socialist state could do that

Expensive, useless , dead duck. Even if it was built it doesn't go anywhere and would only be as fast as the existing lines when all the interminable delays that plague Britains railways are in play as they inevitably will be. Britain shouldk have had high speed trains 20 years ago. Too late now.

Third runway at Heathrow. Britain needed something but our politicians are incapable of grasping the nettel and making a decision. How the hell do the movers and shakers get from China or Brazil to Britain when we have such a dearth of routes. Via Paris or Amsterdam?. Why get on yet another plane to make a deal. Might as well do it with  a Frenchy instead.

[tunnie]

Beats the farm between carriage ways of M62 hands down!!

Yep but think this was a better solution

A lot of people think it's like that because he wouldn't sell up. Not so.

Stott Hall Farm


Stott Hall Farm, viewed from Moorland above westbound carriageway
Stott Hall Farm (53.641599°N 1.952222°W) is an 18th century farm on Windy Hill, situated between the two carriageways of the motorway between junctions 22 and 23.[22][33][34] The road forks around the farm for engineering reasons owing to the surrounding area's geology, though a local myth persists that the road had to be split because the owners refused to sell the land during its construction.[22] Due to its remoteness in the Pennines, the farm is often nicknamed the Little House on the Prairie, it is now known countrywide to lorry drivers using CB radio by this name and is even referred to as such by Sally Boazman, BBC Radio 2's traffic reporter. The farm is now separated from the motorway by crash barriers and a high fence to keep livestock in and drivers out, after some stranded motorists attempted to get aid when broken down.[22][35] The farm, which was occupied by Ken and Beth Wild at the time of the motorway's opening,[33] is now farmed by Paul Thorp.[22] It is one of the ten best-known sights from the motorway network[36] and one of the best-known sights in West Yorkshire.[35] The farm was used as a location for an early episode of ITV drama series Where the Heart Is and was the subject of a short documentary film.[37]

[Johnny English]

Now in China they do things rather differently if you protest about a national building project, like trying to stop a road being built!



http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/offbeat/road-built-round-home-in-china-16241576.html

 

Yes they absolutely do on other way...I've been to China for a two weeks job and it had been quite exciting when I was looking as Chinese practice Thai Chi and took huge breath from the air full of exhausted smoke...

Beats the farm between carriage ways of M62 hands down!!

Yep but think this was a better solution

...like owners on here...

[SIR Philbutt]

Beats the farm between carriage ways of M62 hands down!!

Yep but think this was a better solution

A lot of people think it's like that because he wouldn't sell up. Not so.

Stott Hall Farm


Stott Hall Farm, viewed from Moorland above westbound carriageway
Stott Hall Farm (53.641599°N 1.952222°W) is an 18th century farm on Windy Hill, situated between the two carriageways of the motorway between junctions 22 and 23.[22][33][34] The road forks around the farm for engineering reasons owing to the surrounding area's geology, though a local myth persists that the road had to be split because the owners refused to sell the land during its construction.[22] Due to its remoteness in the Pennines, the farm is often nicknamed the Little House on the Prairie, it is now known countrywide to lorry drivers using CB radio by this name and is even referred to as such by Sally Boazman, BBC Radio 2's traffic reporter. The farm is now separated from the motorway by crash barriers and a high fence to keep livestock in and drivers out, after some stranded motorists attempted to get aid when broken down.[22][35] The farm, which was occupied by Ken and Beth Wild at the time of the motorway's opening,[33] is now farmed by Paul Thorp.[22] It is one of the ten best-known sights from the motorway network[36] and one of the best-known sights in West Yorkshire.[35] The farm was used as a location for an early episode of ITV drama series Where the Heart Is and was the subject of a short documentary film.[37]

This is just over the hill from me and swmbo and I remember news on "Look North" with film of the guy hanging out the window with a shot gun stopping them from building. This is confusing