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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Town Planning'
Sikh as a parrot
June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics
I see from the local papers that the planning application to rebuild the Sikh temple in West Green was turned down. I’m not surprised by this, but I’m a little disappointed. I saw the plans while I was making a social visit to the temple this year and they looked like a vast improvement on [...]
Section 106
June 10th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Politics
Last week the Crawley News included the regular insert from the council: Crawley Live. Normally this is noncontentious to the point of dullness, but one article this time really wound me up: the one on page 7 about Section 106 agreements. It lists all the various benefits to society resulting from money extracted from developers [...]
And on your left…
June 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
…is a pile of vomit from last night’s clubbers. Well I double-checked and triple-checked but today was June 2nd andnot April 1st, so I guess this story from today’s paper must be true, and Basildon really does have a pot of lottery money to set up a heritage trail.  On the face of it the [...]
Tags: Essex·Town Planning·WTF
Great Modern Buildings
October 10th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Life
Another thing I am enjoying this week is the Guardian’s series of pull-outs on great modern buildings – a great improvement on wallcharts of mushrooms or sharks. (I’ll reserve judgement on the booklets of speeches and interviews. I kept them all and just never got round to reading any of them) So far they have [...]
Tags: Buildings·Newspapers·Town Planning
Extension
September 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Life
This is a gratuitous photo. I just thought the page could do with a picture. I saw this building in Penshurst village last weekend and was impressed by the attention to detail on the extension. The left-hand side is the original building and the right-hand half is a new addition. The new addition is extremely [...]
Tags: Buildings·Kent·Photos·Town Planning
Tollgate Express
July 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politics
At last night’s Broadfield Forum there were some concerns raised about the new shop (Tollgate Express) which is to open in Mann Close very soon. Some residents from that estate who are experiencing some nasty-sounding anti-social behaviour from groups of abusive youngsters there are worried that the shop may encourage them to hang around, and [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Broadfield Forum·Crawley Council·Police·Shopping·Town Planning
Woodmans Hill
June 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Politics
What is going on with Woodmans Hill in Broadfield? At the last Broadfield Neighbourhood forum it was one of the roads mentioned as being a safety concern due to the speed of traffic going down it, but there was supposed to be some traffic calming there at least a year ago. The story so far [...]
Housing and the Tories
April 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Politics
I somehow missed it when it was originally posted in October, but Omar has a fine report on the goings on in Hammersmith and Fulham. With housing being such a major issue everywhere andCrawley Labour party making it the major plank of our election campaign, its a good time to be reminded of the fundamental [...]
Winchelsea
April 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
I have to get this out of my system first. It may only be a 7-year-old Ford, but we are quite excited about our new car. Its a Mondeo estate, 2-litre GLX, which is a bit naughty in these carbon footprint-aware times, but then we do only have one car for the family and the [...]
Tags: Buildings·Cars·Photos·Town Planning·WILT
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