A BID to build nearly 100 new homes in an eco-village between Stroud and Gloucester will return to planners next week. Developer Custom Land received planning permission to build 97 homes as part of a new sustainable estate on land off Naas Lane, in Quedgeley, last August. The development is near the Gloucester to Bristol railway line, and it joins onto two separate major estates which are currently under construction: Hunts Grove’s 1,750 homes and Marconi Drive’s 120 homes. However, Gloucester City Council’s planning committee will reconsider the developer’s application to build the new village as matters to do with affordable housing, education and highways have now emerged.
I love possums. Probably because we have so much in common. We have gray hair, donât see well, arenât particularly graceful or speedy, arenât picky eaters and have been around (almost) since the dinosaurs.
Maybe itâs the not-especially-well-kept backyard, the open-air compost pile or the chicken coop. Whatever the reason, I seem to have plenty of opossums, or possums, around the house. And sometimes in the house.
Close Possum Encounters of the First Kind
It was about 1 a.m. when my then-teenage son knocked on the bedroom door and, in an understated Apollo 13 sort of voice, said, âDad, weâve got a situation.â