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anyone know whats being planned out by the old ruin? you know the one, the vanished village off the byway thats been in the lost villages board. walked through last week and theres survey pegs all over the field by the manor ruin, orange tape, and a notice cable tied to the new gate too faded to read. couldnt find owt on the council planning portal for that parish. just curious, seems a lot of money spent looking at a field thats got nothing in it but grass and a few old stones.

Saw the pegs. There has been a roofless manor and a few sarsens in that field as long as I have walked it and nothing else. They have surveyed it twice now in three years that I have seen. You dont measure the same empty field over and over for nothing, but I couldnt tell you what for.

I wrote to ask whether the society might see the manor ruin while there was activity out there, thinking someone must be on site to ask. No reply, of course. There never is. One grows used to a landowner who simply does not answer letters, but it is a new thing in my experience to be unable to find out who the landowner even is.

pre planning surveys. ecology, archaeology, topo, you have to commission the lot before youre allowed to build anything these days, and it dont mean theyre building, could be ten year of consultants counting newts and measuring humps. boring answer i know. usually is.