A story on the Daily Mail online about couple who didn’t realise housing estate being built next to their cottage:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3801805/Couple-s-rural-dream-nightmare-plans-approved-700-home-housing-estate-sides-isolated-farm-cottage.html

provoked this response from someone in the area of Cranbrook:

“Same thing has happened to us. Many of the new houses are rented privately or through housing association and some of the new residents are not very nice. Noise, crime and rubbish has increased enormously since they built these new houses, 450 of them in three small green fields. We have no choice but to move after 41 years in this house and raising a family here, this is what they call progress. There are no green spaces left in our village now and ALL of these new people are not from this area and many are not even British (how do they qualify for social housing here?)”

No welcome there then!