A grand home in Invermay has had a once equally grand garden chopped off in pursuit of progress. Our planning regulations seem to be something of a nonsense when this kind of planning is enacted. This is not planning this is an ill thought out wrecking ball of a solution to the housing crisis. This is divide and profit leaving the area with a miss mash of private spaces with no thought given to community or street scape aesthetics for the common good. With good planning this old elegant home could have been incorporated with new buildings, planed private and shared space to form an appreciation of our heritage for now and attractive places for the future. Instead what we have is the realestate equivalent of our mining activities ‘dig it up and ship it out’