Where have all the trees gone?
A tall crane towers over the building site that now stands
where the lovely woods to the north of Oldway Mansion have been chopped into
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Crane over Oldway
wood burner fuel. Gone is a place where generations of Paigntonians walked peacefully
in that quiet urban woodland. They say that it is progress and yet looking out
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toward the once leafy horizon, soon to be replaced by a block of flats you have
raise an eyebrow.
The beautiful bowling -green and the tennis courts will also
shortly fall beneath the merciless hammer of a JCB as a ghetto of new build
homes develop. The gardens and woodland
of at the north end of the beautiful Oldway estate will now slip quietly into
history.
How much did Torbay Council get for selling off this asset?
Tapestry.
Comments
by Torbaymik
Wednesday, March 06 2013, 12:43PM
“Without outside investment Oldway Mansion would have become a ruin, they have had scaffolding holding up ceilings for some time, the basement is a total ruin already.
So the walk in the woods has to go in order to save the house.
Which would you prefer ?”