On 08/02/2026 16:37, Donald Noble wrote:
It doesn’t seem to be mapped on OSM, but these look like the buildings
on bing
https://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=51.641805%7E-3.876794&lvl=18.7&style=h
<https://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=51.641805%7E-3.876794&lvl=18.7&style=h>
Yes, you can also see it on Google and Esri overhead images.
I'm not sure it's as big a mystery as the article makes it out to be.
Parts of the village were built, and are occupied, and Google Streetview
suggests work is still in progress on building more of it. But that
particular street is an outlier, it's not (yet) connected to the rest of
the village so, when construction was paused on the intervening section,
it was clearly never going to be occupied in the immediate future.
The real question is why they built that street before the connections
were ready. It may possibly have initially been intended as show homes
to advertise the rest of the development - the somewhat strange layout,
the mixture of houses sizes and styles, and what looks like may have
been intended as a car park in front of the street, tends to support
that hypothesis. But the only people who know that for certain are the
developers.
Mark
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