Urban Sprawl

Gardens, houses, metaled roads, no tractor and mower Speed limit grows in reverse, bigger and slower Brick and concrete slowness teks ower Sixty, forty, to thirty, where does it stop ? Down to twenty wi’ houses on top The infrastructure is little Planners and government fickle Greenbelt is pointless and brittle Farmers berated for removing hedges and trees Yet with urban spread, it’s the accepted disease Tyres, bottles, wire, bricks and stone can’t be mown Poisonous garden waste and domestic rubbish thrown Working farms overwhelmed, engulfed and surrounded Unworkable as animals are regularly hounded Mechanical and vet bills compounded Abilities and patience are seriously tested However much time money and effort invested rubbish knackers machines and kills animals when ingested It matters not how well the farm is managed Gates left open, animals and boundaries continually damaged Old farmhouses swallowed up, all out of place Invaded by alien architecture, right in their face Greenfield sites with scant protections Built-up outline grows more projections New estates in all directions Exponential town growth, Ribbon development, conurbation sloth gradual creep, sudden crawl Houses and industrial units, landscape awl Removes the countryside whole, urban sprawl…