…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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Town Planning'
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 · Comments Off on Extension · 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
Town Centre Development
March 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Town Centre Development · Life, Work
Fridays have got a little bit worse now. For a few weeks Jayne was working to the same hours as me – finishing at lunchtime on Fridays so we would go out for lunch and have a look around the shops, or pop into the Labour office to wrestle with the computers or stuff envelopes. […]
Tags: Town Planning
Unfortunate quote
February 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on Unfortunate quote · Politics
I have mentioned before how easy it is to get carried away in a planning committee, and make hyperbolic statements, but this is a classic. Broadwater Farm will be an everlasting memorial to my committee Chair of Haringay planning committee, 1967 Apparently its nowhere near as bad as it was 20 years ago, but still…
Crawley Hospital
February 1st, 2007 · 7 Comments · Politics
It seems you can’t turn around without another proposal for a new hospital in Crawley slapping you in the face. This week it is Wilky Property Holdings and their partners with plans for a business centre, luxury homes and a hospital near the airport. They already have a name for the development, Gatwick Green, and […]
