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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 24, 2017 20:28:45 GMT
We have one being built just up the road from our village
5000 houses with infrastructure 'to follow'. Business units and other.
All on the site of what used to be the Army test track.
This is not likely to turn out well
On the other side of the village it is now proposed to have another as the tiny airport is no longer viable.
'No less than 1500' houses, some industrial units and other.
All due to the immense pressure for housing it is said
i think of the Oscar Wilde quote - to lose one parents, changed - to have one Garden village....
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Post by dsjr on Feb 24, 2017 20:36:49 GMT
'They're' trying to build a shedload of houses here but seemingly with no thought to the infrastructure here, where doctors, dentists and all the schools are full to bursting. Indeed, the local academy is starting a process to try to reduce the number of students educated within it - too bloody right as they're currently doing a lousy job and desperately need more focus on the core subjects imo.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 24, 2017 20:48:48 GMT
Our High Street is a bottleneck, has been for years.
Doctors surgery not coping as is.
Being close to the M3 and the M25 traffic is already busy.
Heathrow up the road,
Not sure where the kids will go to school. Some distance I guess.
The Lyne Garden Village will be between the M3 and the train line to London. Hmm very gardeny and very villagey - I don't think
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Post by ChrisB on Feb 24, 2017 20:50:08 GMT
Grrrr.....we are going to be swallowed up by Lancaster because a so-called Garden Village is proposed for the farmland between our village and the city. They have been touted as being communities with their own individual character but there will now be an unbroken chain of development between the city centre and our village, which at the moment, is 3 miles away and has its own individual character. Nice job!
I've seen the masterplan and it doesn't look very much like a garden to me.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 24, 2017 21:10:35 GMT
What they say is not necessarily what you get - relative truth once more
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Post by MartinT on Feb 24, 2017 23:18:17 GMT
They're developing the old Arborfield Garrison with 2,000 new houses and a school. The infrastructure around Wokingham is already shit and that'll make it even worse. Thank goodness Ruth is gone from there now. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 25, 2017 9:07:50 GMT
Why do we need so many houses ?
I thought our population was very slow growing
Just remembered there is a massive development at another old Army site, Deepcut, about 6 or 7 miles away from us
Few thousand house I guess, probably done by now
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Post by MartinT on Feb 25, 2017 9:20:19 GMT
There should be a massive tax on buying property and leaving it empty, as an investment. But that would upset many wealthy owners, wouldn't it?
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Post by julesd68 on Feb 25, 2017 10:25:26 GMT
Why do we need so many house ? I thought our population was very slow growing Just remembered their is massive development at another Army site, Deepcut, about 6 or 7 miles away Few thousand house I guess, probably done by now In London of course we are desperate for new affordable housing - vast majority of new developments are geared towards very wealthy and often overseas buyers. It's horrific. So renters who want to buy will be more and more pushed outside of London and I guess we'll see more of these garden villages within commuting distance. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 25, 2017 10:59:08 GMT
Both are prime for commuting into London and elsewhere
Longcross already has a train station
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Post by julesd68 on Feb 25, 2017 12:14:30 GMT
Of course the original motivations and intentions behind the original Garden Cities had very clear, forward thinking and sincerity behind them. I'm not sure some of these new developments could be mentioned in the same breath from what I have seen...
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 25, 2017 15:55:19 GMT
Our relative truth world. You may have noticed everyone is a Superstar these days too  |
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Post by Chris on Mar 15, 2017 8:45:28 GMT
Same things going on beside my parents. 2 or 3 brownfield sites have been ignored as it would cost the developers more and greenbelt has been sold off to them. It's ruined my parents open view and has added to the usual problems with infrastructure.
Not a thing anyone can do either.
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