How not to do it

On Christmas Day, Deborah Hatter gives us a lesson in rural planning:
If one were to design a modern housing estate in the heart of the Hampshire countryside, one would not begin by placing 75 homes, a retail unit, and a medical facility at the end of a dark, unlit, single-track road that lacks the width for two vehicles to pass or the provision of safe pedestrian pavements
Comment published 11 Dec 2025