IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Lismore Road, SWINDON, SN6 7HU

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Lismore Road, SN6 7HU by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk

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Image Listing (18 Images Found)

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Distance
1
Stroma Way leading to Lismore Road, Highworth
Image: © Nick Smith Taken: 24 Sep 2011
0.02 miles
2
Housing from 70s
There are a range of different housing types in this area, but this shows one of the types, and the concrete lamppost.
Image: © Michael Wright Taken: 12 May 2007
0.04 miles
3
Arran Way leading to Kilda Road and Skye Close
Off St Michael's Avenue, Highworth
Image: © Nick Smith Taken: 24 Sep 2011
0.08 miles
4
Planned open space in estate
Of course I remember when this was all builders rubble that they landscaped to produce this open area. It was prone to flooding, being at the bottom of Highworth hill. However the trees show the maturity of the housing.
Image: © Michael Wright Taken: 12 May 2007
0.10 miles
5
Barra Close off St Michael's Avenue, Highworth
Image: © Nick Smith Taken: 24 Sep 2011
0.10 miles
6
Home Farm, Highworth, Swindon
This view from the town's cemetery shows the main housing area of the small market town of Highworth. The area was developed in the 1960s as a mix of private and local authority houses. The image was obtained as the winter sun was starting to set.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 29 Nov 2007
0.12 miles
7
Home Farm off St Michael's Avenue, Swindon
Image: © Nick Smith Taken: 24 Sep 2011
0.12 miles
8
Islay Crescent, Highworth
Leading to Bute Close, with Arran Way, Kilda Road and Skye Close nearby, round the corner from Lismore Road. We are in the Scottish Islands part of town.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 8 Aug 2020
0.14 miles
9
Pound Road off St Michael's Avenue, Highworth
It's not obvious where St Michael's Avenue becomes Grove Hill from the map, so this might be off the latter!
Image: © Nick Smith Taken: 24 Sep 2011
0.18 miles
10
Village Green, St Michael's Avenue, Highworth, Swindon
This is a fairly routine image of a what might appear to be a pleasant but unremarkable area of public open space. However, there is more, much more to it than that. The tale begins in the late 1960s when the area of land west of the A361 in Highworth became subject to a planning permission to develop the land as a housing estate. In due course construction commenced and the area known locally as 'Windrush' came into existence. At some point in the 1970s the developers ceased trading. Nothing unusual in that except that, in this case, it happened before all the normal post-development loose ends such as adoption of roads, sewers and public open spaces had been tied up. The effect was that the areas of de facto 'public open space' i.e. areas of land not clearly associated with buildings, were, apparently, owned by an entity that no longer existed. This oddity notwithstanding the local authority started and continued to maintain the land by cutting the grass and other landscaping-type tasks. It isn't clear exactly when what happened next took place (it was post-December 2007 if Google Earth is to be believed) but it seems a collective decision was taken by some residents in houses in Barra Close that backed onto the space to assume possession of part of the land. This was accomplished by engaging a fencing contractor to build a fence around the part of the land immediately behind their houses. From a local resident whom I spoke to I gather that the fencing contractor completed the task within a day. In due course, and hardly unexpectedly, some residents not party to the land acquisition enterprise complained to the local planning authority. This culminated in a planning application being submitted and duly considered before being rejected. Two things flowed from this. First and predictably, the applicants' appealed to the relevant central government department and second, the other residents applied to have the land declared to be a 'village green' within the meaning of the Commons Act 2006. For the moment then the fence remains, visible in this image as the light-coloured section of fence in the centre of the image and the fence leading away from it. However on the 27th January 2010 the local authority granted village green status to the land in view - except the land appropriated as described above. If the planning appeal fails and those in possession of it hand it back, a further application to include the land as village green will probably be made. A local newspaper report on the village green application can be read here http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/4876066.Partial_victory_over_green_area/ For a closer look at the fence please see this image Image It's different now (Sept 2010) http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2078855
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 28 Jan 2010
0.20 miles