I think I have already expressed a view or two on all these new new housing developments which keep springing up everywhere, and how they are nearly all identical brick and tile boxes straight out of Barratt’s catalogue of designs. I may also have gone on at boring length about the twee rustic names given […]
Entries Tagged as 'Housing'
Train window housing
August 10th, 2005 · Comments Off on Train window housing · Life
I was reading this article by Jonathan Glancey about Prescott’s scheme for affordable housing. Most of it was what you would expect, but one phrase just jumped out and smacked me between the eyes: Not that it matters much in the catalogue world of Train Window Housing, designed to look the same on greenfields, brownfields […]
Tags: Brighton·Housing·Language·Maidenbower·Three Bridges·Town Planning
Council Meeting
June 29th, 2005 · Comments Off on Council Meeting · Politics
I went along to the council meeting last night, and I wasn’t alone. It seemed like half the Labour Party were in the public gallery and the overflow seating, as well as all the Respect/SWP lot, and a fairly large crowd of council ternants. Yes it was the special meeting for the council to decide […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Housing
More town planning
June 11th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Life
I’m back on the topic of town planning because I am still interested in it. This afternoon Jayne and I escaped from the kids for a while by going down to Three Bridges where Fairview Homes were holding a consultation on development on the current Crawley Leisure Centre site. One of the ways the council […]
Planning application
April 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on Planning application · Politics
I may have to return to the Town Hall some time this year after all. In the Crawley Observer this week is a public notice about a planning application (CR2005/0304/FUL) for Mann Close. As Mann Close is right across the road from me I am very interested in this. Last year we gave planning permission […]
Tags: Buildings·Crawley Council·Housing·Shopping·Town Planning
Cold
November 1st, 2004 · Comments Off on Cold · Life
Our central heating appears to be not working very well. I just noticed tonight that it was a bit cold in the living room and found that, although the heating was on full, there was no heat at all in the radiators. I tried bleeding them but they didn’t need that. All the valves seem […]
Tags: Housing
Temporary home
July 29th, 2004 · Comments Off on Temporary home · Life
Perhaps this is a good time to go into more detail about why we have had to move house. About 7 or 8 years ago a whole estate (two roads with several ‘closes’ off of them) were thrown together by cowboy builders on a Friday. The area itself is very hilly, so many of the […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Housing
