An Act of Crime

by Don Matthews

Sunday 30th June 2019 7:51 am

An Act of Crime

Preamble

Pictured is the house under threat

An act of crime will soon be

Committed in my town

A home with so much history

Was sold. Be soon knocked down

Our advocates of heritage

Enraged, say all along

Such a bad decision shows

The system is all wrong

The property's not listed

And there's the fatal flaw

Council says six units? Great!

Gives us money. More

The Government does the bidding

Of volume-building firms

Who don't care about history

And say “Not my concern”

The home they expect it will be razed

Turned into flats (more rates)

But hopefully this act of crime

Initiates debate

I've said this many times before

Money trumps the lot

I'm disappointed, angry, sad

People don't give a jot

Don Matthews June 2019

Comments

Martin Elder

Sun 30th Jun 2019 17:33

A now all too familiar town in many towns and Cities across the globe regardless of artistic allure or being sympathy with the environment or locality.

M.C. Newberry

Sun 30th Jun 2019 16:12

Right on the money - if you'll pardon the unintentional allusion!
Oldway Manor in Paignton, Devon was built by the Singer family
(of the sewing machine dynasty) and is now in the hands of the
local council who used it for its purposes &now seems
uncertain what to do with it and there is growing concern that this
fine building and grounds face an uncertain future - and we can guess what that means. In Torquay across the bay the stone
jetties that saw the tramp of the US 4th Army set off for the D-Day
landings - surely the greatest Invasion on behalf of liberty ever
undertaken - were not spared the idiocy of council decisions and
became victims of destructive planning "progress"...with a few
photos and plaques nearby to mark their existence.
P.S. Love the video used for this blog.

Lisa C Bassignani

Sun 30th Jun 2019 12:53

They just did the same to a whole block of buildings near me. So now instead of looking at the skyline when driving by, you get to look at 15 story apartments...
all in a row
Funniest thing (or saddest depending on how you see it).....I think half of them are empty because they are too expensive for the average person to live in!
Oh what a world

keith jeffries

Sun 30th Jun 2019 11:38

Don,

A good clear and well expressed poem which is an example, if we need one, of what drives the world in this secular age.

Thanks fo this

Keith

Devon Brock

Sun 30th Jun 2019 10:12

Well said, Don.

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