RIP Barleythorpe

A Community is about to be destroyed in Rutland through the greed of developers and their puppets at Rutland County Council. Barleythorpe was a small village 1 mile from county town of Oakham in Rutland and it is history goes back to the times of the Doomsday Book. It was given to Westminster abbey by Edward the Confessor and it belonged to the dean and chapter of Westminster.

Today it seems it belongs to the the developers Larkfleet who have taken the village over by stealth with their plans drawn up in conjunction with Rutland County Council. Soon the village will be no more, it will just be part of Oakham and all that history and the community will be lost forever. More and more houses are being built that will connect the village with the town.

The people I have spoken to from the village feel let down by Rutland County Council. Their views have been ignored and and stamped on by the council. They want to save their village but feel helpless to do anything. It is wrong that a Country Council can do this to the people it represents.