A quick plug for the ever readable Hopi Sen who has been joining a few dots… If you read that, do remember to try and look surprised when Tesco finally get to expand their Crawley shop onto the Hazelwick playing fields the next time they try. At least you have to applaud the coalition for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Town Planning'
Yes its pretty, but…
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Crawley Council are rightly pleased about the renovation of the Langley Green parade and the surrounding area, concentrating on the design details in this press release. A while ago I stopped there myself to use the shops and while being pleased with the improved parking arrangements I also noticed the distinctive bollards. I can remember [...]
Thames Town
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
I found out about this town in China via Chris Applegate on Twitter.  It looks like a sort of large-scale Poundbury-type project. Be interesting to see what their Swedish, Dutch, German, Spanish and Italian towns look like. The whole thing sounds like somebody doing the World Showcase bit of Epcot on a massive scale with [...]
Tags: China·Town Planning
Come on down
July 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
It is going to be a (slightly) historic day on Monday. The tall chimney opposite County Oak in Crawley is coming down. Over the last couple of weeks we have enjoyed watching various mechanical monsters chewing up the factory building next to it, and now we are ready for the main event.
Tags: Photos·Town Planning
Historic
April 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
In this week’s Crawley Observer there was a letter following up last week’s story about the proposed demolition of the old cinema in Brighton Road. I had meant to make some comment on the story at the time and just never got round to it, but not because of the cinema.
Tags: Crawley·Southgate·Town Planning
Demolition Time
January 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
If you live in a mid-terrace house, and wake to find the house next door is being demolished it cannot be much fun, and you have to wonder just how much more brazen developers can get. On the other hand, you have to worry a bit about the neighbours when they can say “The safety [...]
Tags: Town Planning·WILT
Respectable Street
January 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Life
Well…Â I didn’t say I was giving up the song titles completely This morning I have been faintly amused and bemused by the news from Lewes, where the local council is considering guidelines for the naming of roads.
Ebeneezer Goode
October 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Over the years I have visited Letchworth many, many times. At first it was to visit our offices there (when I worked for ICL) and then to visit Dad when he relocated there from London. On nearly every visit I was told something about the town’s peculiar history: often the same little bits of information, [...]
Tags: Town Planning·TV
Our House
October 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Politics
Anybody paying attention to the recent comments box to the right of this page will have seen a comment from Shirley that the plans to turn Broadfield House into flats have been submitted to the council again. The plans for conversion of the building and for ‘listed building concent’ (sic) were registered on October 2nd, [...]
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 [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Photos·Town Planning·Traffic
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