Christmas is a good time to bury bad news
The thatched cottage is a listed building, so an inquiry will be required. It's been boarded up for years, yet strangely none of the local wildlife ever broke in and burned it down. I hope it can be saved, or at least relocated elsewhere for posterity.
MAN desperately needs more apron, and old Ringway Road is not really needed now except to access internal sites that will be demolished anyway. Pity they didn't buy the land near the Etrop Grange that the two carparks are on, or the site that's now an empty business park, when they had the chance.
I believe some people were trying to get B217 listed due to its importance in WW2. Where did that campaign get to?