Plympton Pathfields, Headline Newsfile


Latest newspaper reports resulting from the Plympton Pathfields Preservation Group press releases and news items (excluding TV and radio reports and interviews by the Pathfields Group)

 

Thursday February 22 2001 Plymouth Extra
More Talks Over Homes
Talks have begun between the Plympton Pathfields Preservation Group and Beazer Homes to ensure that the open land surrounding a new housing development is preserved...
Friday February 16  2001 Plympton Plymstock & Ivybridge News
Pathfields: Compromise reached on Open Land
The Plympton Pathfields Preservation Group and Beazer Homes have reached a compromise to ensure that open land surrounding a new housing development is preserved forever...
Monday December 18 200 Plymouth Evening Herald
No Expansion of Flood Site
City planners have told residents angry about flooding problems at a new housing development that similar schemes will be turned down in future...
Thursday December 7 2000 Plymouth Extra
New Place for Flood Problem
Extra pumps have been brought in to control water flooding over Plympton Pathfields while a huge retaining wall is built...
Friday November 24  2000 Plympton Plymstock & Ivybridge News
Flooding Problem at Pathfields
Opponents of a controversial housing development at Plympton Pathfields claim that construction work has created a flooding problem for nearby residents...
Wednesday November 29 2000 Western Morning News (letters page)
Wrong Choice for Housing
The housing development on Plympton Pathfields near Plymouth makes a mockery of the Environment Agency's stated opinion that housing developments must not take place on known flood plains...
Tuesday October 24 2000 Plymouth Evening Herald
Floods Spark Homes Anger - Defences: Residents say measures won't stop water problem
A row has broken out between a city preservation group and housing developers after flooding problems near a new housing site. The Pathfields Preservation Group says flooding has got worse since work started on the Pathfields development, in Plympton St. Maurice...
Thursday August 24 2000 Plymouth Evening Herald
Road to Close as Building Begins - Housing:Controversial development is getting under way
Work has begun on laying out plots for houses at a controversial development and a road at the site will be closed for two weeks...

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