Sherford

It is usually straightforward leaving the A38 at Plympton and driving through the lanes to Plymstock, but not now!!

It has been a while since I was in the area, but I was startled to find a new town had sprung up in the countryside outside Elburton. It is a complex of mock Georgian style apartments and town houses together with more modern houses and flats.

There are two schools, a coffee shop and a 5G sports field which we could make out, and many of the farmers fields bordering the development are fenced off presumably for more expansion. There are at least three major construction companies involved in the building work with presumably many sub-contractors working along side them.

It has been compared with Poundbury, the new town championed by The King when he was Prince of Wales, and the word is that it is a pleasant place to live albeit that it is still a work in progress and the infrastructure is a bit slow in keeping pace with the house building.