Knocking down the old house

The builders at Millbank are taking down the old house on the site. The roof is mostly off now.
It's a shame, because it's a perfectly good house, or was up until the garage closed.
I stood with Brian for a while this morning, watching them work. He asked why it was being demolished.
"They say subsidence," I said.
"Oh, that's an old trick," he said. "When I worked for the railways, and they wanted to get rid of an old stationmaster's house or something, because it was surplus to requirements, they always said subsidence."
Before the subsidence report was put in, an arguement was put forward that the corner around Heol-y-dwr was dangerous, and the road needed to be widened there. They couldn't take anything off the Globe side of the road, because it was a graveyard, so they said they needed to knock down the house. I seem to remember our MP was quite keen on that idea, and wrote to the B&R to defend the decision.
That corner is awkward - but the accidents that happen there are overwhelmingly the sort where cars bump into each other at low speeds and smash indicators. Maybe there have been injuries there, but I've never heard of any.
Anyway, the time for objecting is long gone (and some of us did object) and now the house is going.