This a follow-up to last week’s piece about parking. On one of my little lunchtime walks I took a short cut through a council estate off Bayliss Rd in Lambeth. I had been past dozens of times, but had never actually been in it. As you can imagine, parking spaces are a valuable commodity in […]
Entries Tagged as 'Town Planning'
Partial solution
January 24th, 2007 · Comments Off on Partial solution · Life
Tags: Cars·London·Parking·Town Planning
Park & Ride
January 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on Park & Ride · Politics
According to the Crawley Observer there was a proposal by Crawley Town FC to use part of their car park as a lorry park, apart from on match days. A number of Broadfield residents objected and the proposal was turned down by the borough council for planning reasons. Even if planning permission had been granted […]
Tags: Cars·Crawley Council·Parking·Town Planning·Traffic·WSCC
Ugly Buildings. Again.
January 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Ugly Buildings. Again. · Politics
There were two interesting articles in the papers today, which I will attempt to clumsily relate to each other. The first was Ashley Seager in the Guardian, arguing that we need a land tax to replace council tax and possibly allow reductions in VAT as well, and the second was in the Argus: a story […]
Tags: Brighton·Buildings·Global Warming·London·Taxation·Town Planning
Overseas jollies
December 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Overseas jollies · Politics
The other story in the Crawley News today was about expenses for councillors on fact-finding visits to Liverpool and Rotterdam. The facts appear to be that a group of 7 officers and 6 councillors went on visits to compare town centres to help them with planning the major redevelopment of Crawley, the developers paid for […]
Tags: Buildings·Crawley·Crawley Council·Local Papers·Netherlands·Town Planning
Ugliest building in Britain
December 16th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Politics
When I saw the Crawley News on Wednesday my curiosity was piqued by the teaser on the front page which said “Library is branded ugliest building in Britain: page 10” and I was quite looking forward to getting to page 10. I imagined it was a verdict from some relevent body like CABE or RIBA […]
Tags: Buildings·Crawley Council·Hyperbole·Local Papers·Town Planning
Fire Stations
September 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
The complaints about West Sussex county council’s intention to move the town’s fire station from the town centre to Cheals roundabout are still appearing in the letters pages of the local papers. None of the letters mention the North-East sector in relation to this. The reason I am referring to it is that last week’s […]
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Crawley Council·Pound Hill·Town Planning·WSCC
Tower blocks
September 7th, 2006 · Comments Off on Tower blocks · Politics
A planning application is causing a lot of consternation in town at the moment. It was rejected by the borough council and the rejection was upheld by the Planning Inspectorate but the developers appealed to the Secretary of State and have got their permission after all. I know the location of the application, and although […]
Time Travel
August 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
There were times last week when it felt like my holiday destination was actually 1950 rather than Dorset, although to be fair there were some things which were more late 70s. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Don’t we all sometimes look fondly back to simpler times?
Tags: Camping·Dorset·Family·Holidays·Nature·Nostalgia·Railways·Schooldays·Shopping·Town Planning
What a load of rubbish
August 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
Today and yesterday Charlie and I made several trips to the tip to get rid of the waste from our bathroom re-modelling. When we arrived at the tip in Metcalf Way we discovered that the new tip is open and the old one next door has closed down. The new one is so much better […]
Tags: Crawley·Town Planning·Travellers·WSCC
Fire Station
August 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Fire Station · Politics
I may have to venture out into the unpleasantly hot weather[*] with my camera and do another ‘secret Crawley’ post on the land next to Cheals roundabout, while it is still there. The county council want to relocate the fire station there, on what the Crawley News describes as ‘precious land’. The borough council’s planning […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Town Planning·WSCC
