44 Glen Road

Recently the asbestos removal people were parked in No. 44 Glen Road. 

This usually means that the property is earmarked for demolition and that more garden-less and charmless very small homes will be built. I hope not but, knowing how things have gone before.....

As you can see in the photo above, the site does not go back too far but there is enough room, once they remove the lovely screen of greenery at the front (see below), to cram 6/8 properties on the site. Less if they give people a car park space (I am only guessing here...)

The house has a kind of unique vintage shabby chic about it so I am sure that the developers jumped on it. But it is not empty. There is always a vehicle parked there and often someone in the property so what happens is still up in the air.

The Whole Area is a Building Site

Glen Road and Tawhai Street are basically noisy and unpleasant building sites at the moment during the day and for the next year at least. No wonder people are putting houses up for sale. The road surfaces are also causing concern due to the heavy vehicles. 

Backing on to the very large site in Tawhai Street with no recourse to help from Hutt Council about the noise is no fun but we will not move out. Even if they are raising the ground level by 30 cms at least and cramming 6 houses almost on top of our fence. My planned screen will take a few years to mature but it will block the houses eventually.

Destruction of Local Tree Screening

Here is Number 44 Glen Road's splendid small tree screen, and the fence that was in front of where the ugly Glen Road development now is. I do not believe the Glen Road houses have all been sold, (maybe to property developers who two years will put them on the market again as is happening with plenty of the new build flats and houses on Eastern Hutt Road.) Roll on Corporation tax!

Ecological Damage

The destructions of so many trees, shrubs and grass must be impacting local wildlife but the developers don't appear to care much. The replacements are usually small indestructible grasses and tiny trees even a black thumb couldn't kill, and small patches of concrete for people to sit on.

Nothing the local birds would enjoy I think. This is why I am very grateful that Urban Plus are leaving the trees beside their development alone on Tawhai Street. The stand of amazing trees are a roost for Moreporks, Tui, Kereru, Silvereyes and the humble sparrow.