Ramping It Up To The Poppies, Aylesford

This is the newly built road that will lead up to yet another housing estate, sorry "collection", called The Poppies. It's less than a quarter of mile from where we live. It features only three, four and five bedroom homes with a starting price of £399, 995. In other words, not a single home in this project is affordable in any conventional sense and certainly not for many local people. They are, like many new builds in our area, squarely aimed, mainly, at people moving out from London. Last year nearly 40% of homes near where we live were bought by people moving out from the metropolis. Also, the housebuilders love building these because they generate a nice fat profit on each one.