The Crow Ground.

[chiller]

Beside Sainsers, behind the gasometers (I think we've established how I feel about the gasometers which, in my view, are one of the best pieces of artwork ever erected, blue against a blue sky), lies the Crow Ground

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[ivory_goddess]

Better brownfield than greenfield surely?

[chiller]

I don't think I understand this comment! *baffleface*

[ivory_goddess]

I mean if houses are going to be built (which they are - and indeed need to be), then better that previously-developed-now-waste land is re-used than to make yet more inroads into the countryside by developing pristine* greenfield sites out-of-town. Plus brownfield sites tend to have infrastructure (roads, shops, public transport etc) already in place, whereas with greenfield you end up with a bunch of houses with no facilities nearby or are forced to build a whole bunch of other stuff to service them (afore-mentioned roads, transport, shops etc).

* for various definitions of 'pristine', granted...

[doetja]

I feel for you, I really do: I have a Crow Ground too, the plot over the side road to my block of flats. In my case it's a little wood, full to absolute bursting with corvid nests -- mostly crows and rooks, with some jackdaws for filling. They come in at night to roost in great noisy waves from different directions, great clouds of them swirling around the little forest like a biblical sign before they dive down to the nests slowly settle down.

I absolutely love it. I'm dreading the day they cut the forest down and build a block of flats -- and the way they're building around the neighbourhood it won't be long.

[chiller]

Urgh, it's so sad and awful. :(