The ripping up of the hedges has been stopped.
I've got newts in my garden.
They're common newts as opposed to the protected great crested newts.
Adult newts only use water for courtship and breeding. The rest of the year they spend on dry land. ie. under hedges.
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Told you so
ReplyDeleteExcellent...stopping the work I mean. It is very sad that our hedgerows are being ripped up without a care for the wildlife.
ReplyDeleteIt is shameful that the person who signs himself as anonymous has not got the courage of his convictions to put his name to his inane comments, at least Colin does not hide his identity, albeit that some of his remarks are questionable.
ReplyDeleteNigel loves walking his dog through Penymynydd woods and he fails to see why the development of The White Lion site should prevent or change his habits, he has walked Penymynydd woods since he was old enough to walk, and will do so until he can walk no longer.
In regard to newts Nigel and his pals who accompany him on his walk through Penymynydd woods has protected Newts (locally known as Askers) from a very young age, long may they survive, I am sure they will.
Goodnight Colin and Mr. Anonymous hopefully you may provide us one day with your identity, otherwise your comments are worthless and scurrilous.
According to a scrawl in felt tip pen on the back of the now closed stile, beside the bridle path the ghost of a boy was seen there. Does that constitute an endangered species?
ReplyDeleteI was under some misapprehension that stiles can't be closed....
DeletePerhaps there is a possibility of this area becoming a tourist attraction. Does Klaus do ghosts?
The ghost as a tourist attraction might not be welcomed by the residents either!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I have no belief in ghosts when I was walking down the bridle path last night in the direction of the stile, for a second or two I thought I saw a boy standing there dressed in the sort of clothes a boy would have been dressed in about 200 years ago. The apparition if that is what it was only lasted a second or two. I reckon it was my imagination as I was thinking about it.
Very interesting. Never seen a ghost myself. Recently I have been to Plas Teg. Not a happy place IMHO.
DeleteNot somewhere I could live.
Oh goodness not a ghost!!!!!!!!!! I will not feel the same about the bridel path now. I was glad about the newts tho I hope they might stop Redrow building the houses.
ReplyDeleteI have just found this site on the net.
ReplyDeleteI live about a mile from where the housing development is to take place. I walk my dog up the Old Hope Road about once a week and cut through the bridle path to the Penymynydd Rd. I was surprised to see the notice about closure, on the stile by the nature reserve, from September 12th until March. I didn't see any sign of a ghost, but I was walking during the day, ghosts come out at night don't they? A week or two ago I saw a snake crawling through the hedge on the housing development side of the path. When I got home I looked it up on the net the picture of the adder looked very like the snake I has seen. My husband doesn't think there are adders around here and says it was more likely to be a harmless grass snake but I am not so sure. I don't like snakes very much.
Hi Poppy
DeleteGrass snakes have a yellow band behind the head. They usually look green but can look dark brown out of water. Adders have a zig zag pattern on their back. A snakes first instinct is to scarper quickly. Attack is the last line of defence. Adders tend to live on moorland. Grass snakes meadows and ditches.
i do not live near enough the new build site for it to bother me, but wonder why developers would want go ahead as hardly anything is selling in the area of penymynydd and penyfford?
ReplyDeleteYou raise an important issue. The locality of Airbus, Chester and beyond make Penyffordd attractive. Also being near the A55.
DeleteOne supposes the developers can slow or quicken production to meet demand.
As you say little is being sold in Penyffordd district.
Good morrow people. I am called Bryn I died in 1713 just by here where the stile is now. I fell from a tree and broke my neck I was only 12. I was the breadwinner for my family as my father died soon after I was born. Life was hard. I mean people who see me no harm, I was a good boy my mother often said so.
ReplyDeleteThe Internet continues to astound.
DeleteDate not too far out as I consider Penyffordd a fairly recent addition historically to Flintshire. Hob and Caergwrle being far older.
Hello Penymynydd Ghost Boy have you thought of posting on Facebook or Twitter?
ReplyDeleteColin I only saw the snake for a short time but I am sure it had a zig zag along its back.
No sign of activity where the new houses are to be built.
While on the subject of new houses what do you think of the two going up on Penymynydd Rd? They are built out of some sort of foam material and have no bricks or concrete block, very strange!
Hi Poppy
ReplyDeleteDon't go up the far end of Pen Rd much due to traffic restricts. There is a building technique when you build the house with polystyrene lego blocks then you fill the structure with concrete. Very strong and very warm. As opposed to our houses at the bottom that are a 100 yrs old,have solid walls and act like radiators.
The traffic restrictions don't seem to be enforced tho. When I walk that way there are always cars coming and going. It is still used as a rat run.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed it is.
ReplyDeleteAs Chester Rd is used too.
Enforcement a few months ago is soon forgotten.
With the development of White Lion there is an ideal opportunity to make Penymynydd Rd a dead end.
There appear to be issues regarding this though.
Part of the field bordering the Penymynydd Rd, where the second phase of houses are to be built, is flooded so drainage is going to be an issue. I wouldn't buy a house, which might flood in exceptionally wet weather like we are having at the moment.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Redrow will spend extra on drainage lol. Present circumstances are a little unusual with regards weather.
DeleteThe Leader I am told has a property in it in Mold with water up to the window.
By present I should say this year !
Perhaps next year will be drier.
That field is prone to flooding anyway. Some of the grass growing there is the spikey sort which grows in boggy conditions.
ReplyDeleteRedrow would have to spend one heck of a lot of money on drainage I would have thought. They can't put that onto the cost of the houses and expect people to buy them.
We shall see Poppy. I hear our Council Clerk Nigel may be buying one.
DeleteA lot of flooding has occurred in areas which just should never have been built on in the first place. If Redrow do build on the field which is still waterlogged I would have thought the insurance they will have to take out against later claims, would be sky high.
ReplyDeleteThe issue of housing built on flood plain is a national issue. The insurance industry are up to speed. The residents will be the ones to pick up the bill. There is a map somewhere which shows all flood plain areas.
DeleteCurrently householders in Mancot Lane are staying in St David's hotel Ewloe whilst their flooded houses are fixed. That issue was due to a blacked drain apparently.
I was told by a mate there was a report about the boy ghost in the paper.
ReplyDeleteYou might find this of interest.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/weird/ghosts/pages/broughton.shtml
Some years back I read, or saw a programme about a ghostly monk haunting a house in the Treuddyn area. A lot of other strange things happened in the house too.
ReplyDeleteThe notices closing the stiles have been up for about four weeks but there is still no building work being carried out. Will it start anytime soon?
ReplyDeleteGood Question. Taylor Wimpey down the road at Wood Lane Farm have got a complete house up. I'll ask someone. Steve Morgan boss of Redrow is trying to take the company private by offering shareholders not much money. I think they might have told him where to go lol.
DeleteWalking along the bridle path with my dog gives me a chance to be alone with my thoughts. The sound of building work would intrude, so for my own 'selfish' reasons I hope Redrow decide not to go ahead with it.
ReplyDeleteWe have leaders at Westminister who have no thoughts on controlling the population. It's just more and more people to make more and more money for big business. I walk our dogs near Bwlchgwyn. No noise and you will be lucky to meet anyone.
ReplyDeleteon and the EU of course.
ReplyDeleteColin were you able to find out if the building work is going to start anytime soon?
ReplyDeleteCllr Cindy Hinds says that negotiations are still ongoing. I presume this is between county planners and Redrow.
ReplyDeleteIn which case building work isn't likely to start in the near future. With winter drawing near I wonder if it will start before next year if they decide to go ahead?
ReplyDeleteA friend who tracks properties on the Rightmove website was showing me the ones on offer in Penymynydd. I was surprised to see how cheap some of the detached properties are now compared to a year or two ago. I was also surprised to see the price of a couple of properties on the Penymynydd road near the school end of things, which seem way out of line with the general trend downwards. One three bedroom semi which isn't very special at all, is up for £219,000 but some detached houses in the Penymynydd area are well under £200K and in better condition! There is a five bed detached property squashed up by the two new houses which are being put up on that road. They want about £340,000 for it, they will will be so lucky! A detached bungalow off Well house drive was up for about £175,000, but the agent changed and now it is up for £220,000. You wonder what the estate agents are playing at!
A sign of the times Poppy. House prices have been previously inflated by politicians. Residents see the supposed high prices their houses are worth and will not move much downwards. So there is this vacuum.
ReplyDeleteThe question is "Are current house prices in Penyffordd district of fair market value?"
There are many people who cannot afford to get on the housing ladder.
I suppose a lot of people bought their properties when prices were very high and can't afford to sell them for much less than their asking price. In which case they will be waiting a very long time for a sale. A property is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it.
ReplyDeleteI see on Rightmove the bungalow in Mount Tabor Close has been reduced to £200,000 I bet they will have to reduce it a lot further if they actually want to sell it.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile The bungalow on Chester Rd, Penyffordd which had a price tag of 300k has a sold sign up.........
DeleteI wonder what it actually went for? A lot less, I bet!
ReplyDeletePerhaps we will find out in a couple of months when details are registered.
DeleteWhen did you last check Rightmove? I don't remember any bungalows on the Chester Rd being up for £300,000 or anything like it for quite a while.
ReplyDeleteHere Poppy
Deletehttp://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-36840152.html
£295
It doesn't seem as if the work on the new houses is going to start any time soon. If the bungalow on the Chester Rd is the one I am thinking of it was under offer for a while about a year ago but it went back onto the market again. I don't see them getting anything close to their asking price especially as it is on a busy T junction. There are other bungalows in quieter spots in the locality which are much cheaper and have more going for them I would have thought.
ReplyDeleteOn my walk I spotted some guys in the wildlife reserve one of them seemed to have a sprayer and was spraying the area. It was a bit hard to tell but that is what it looked like to me from where I was standing. I wonder what that was all about?
ReplyDeleteTrees are being felled in the wildlife area!
ReplyDeleteAll the tall trees have gone and it looks as if the wildlife area is being halved in size!
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