When Charlie came home last night he told us about all the fire engines, police cars and ambulances at the other end of Tollgate Hill, and it turns out he was not exaggerating. One thing neither the Observer story nor the News story mentions is the puppies…
Entries Tagged as 'Broadfield'
Roundabout
August 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
While walking back from the shops today I noticed that there are some roadworks on Woodman’s Hill. Dare we hope that these are the long-overdue traffic-calming measures that were part of the S106 planning conditions on the Highwood Park development?
Just after that previous post I got a tip-off from Jim McGough that this work was [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Photos·Town Planning·Traffic
Outside The Wall
August 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
There are quite a few walls built like this in the neighbourhood where I live but not, fortunately, in my street.
Either it is a serious design flaw or they were just built wrong, but either way they fall down really easily. They all have alternating sections of brick wall and wooden fencing and I sometimes [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Photos
So thats what it was about
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Apparently the old bill were at the park yesterday because of a ‘vicious brawl’ according to the Observer. Sounds like if I had left work an hour earlier I would have been an eye-witness. Or maybe a victim.
Elsewhere on their website is the story I mentioned about the baby who died and the local reaction [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Local Papers
More Broadfield Park
July 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
What was going on at the park today? My route home goes through the park now (no faster or easier than going up Pease Pottage Hill but its greener and traffic free) and this evening the place was full of police, with the lake surrounded by blue tape and a couple of Crawley Observer reporters [...]
Tags: Broadfield
Community spirit
July 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Life
There has been a fine example of community spirit where I live in the last week or two. There is a woman here who had a heartbreaking loss when her baby died in a freak pushchair accident - the way I understand it the child fell out while shopping bags were being unloaded from the [...]
Tags: Broadfield
On a mission
July 8th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Politics
At the moment Ian Irvine is on a bit of a mission, and its good to see. Some people react to losing an election by withdrawing from everything, others just can’t let go and keep turning up at every official event1 but Ian has found himself inspired to activism.
The beneficiary of this enthusiasm is [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Town Planning
Standing down
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Last night we went to the AGM of the local community centre, where Jayne stood down as chair after a year. She previously did the job for the maximum three years, but back then she was not a school governor, independent custody visitor and an on-call appropriate adult for youth offenders. I have been saying [...]
Tags: Broadfield·BYCC
The trouble with buses
June 10th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Politics
The other day I heard a story that amused me and depressed me in equal measure. Unfortunately it did not surprise me much. It went something like this:
Tags: Broadfield·Buses·Crawley Council·Idiots
Broadfield House
May 21st, 2008 · 6 Comments · Politics
The Crawley Observer has a story about an application to turn Grade II listed Broadfield House into apartments. Looking at the plans the proposal is to cram 12 apartments into the building, which will mean, I guess, that there is no obligation to include any affordable housing at all. The publicity came about because a [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Crawley Council·Housing·Local Papers
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