Heritage wall

I had occasion to walk past the flats noticed at reference 1 this morning, and worked out why its north western flank is being protected by a fine new heritage-style wall, visible middle left in the snap, behind the rubbish.

It turns out that this new wall will join up to the old wall, right in the snap, an old wall which presumably fell into disrepair while the site was derelict. An old wall which continues up the lane until it gets to Meadway, when it turns left and south to make the front wall of the properties fronting onto Clayhill Green. An old wall which is made of bricks which are crumbling away and which must cost the owners of said properties a fair bit to keep pointed up - and it would make a lot more sense just to knock it down and start over.

Presumably the heritage people cut some deal with the developers of the flats (Zestan) whereby they were allowed to build the flats if, inter alia, they did something about their stretch of heritage wall. While I sometimes wonder if the heritage people are not just out to spite us out of jealousy or something. Perhaps with all their access to all the secret lists, they can make jolly sure they don't wind up living anywhere with this sort of nonsense going on.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-flats.html.