The approach to Bougainvillea from Mount-Poonamallee Road. The road has apparently been blacktopped and the buildings painted by the promoter, Alliance.
An interior view of the layout.
A culvert inside the layout, with the boundary wall clearly visible in the background.
A perspective view of the layout.
One side of the layout has a grove. The neighbouring groves that now have coconut trees, will become plots in the second phase, an Alliance salesman at the site said.
Another perspective view. Still a long way to go to enjoy "English Gardens."
The tree guards are all in place, but will they shelter trees (hopefully native varieties) anytime soon?
The roads inside Bougainvillea are not elevated enough for this part of the city, where heavy rain leaves the plots inundated.
A row of shops being built a couple of hundred metres away from the layout gate.
Can it stay neat for long? This is a question that has to be asked, given the nature of civic squalour that Chennai is usually famous for.
