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Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?
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littleme
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Boy racers...
c0tt0nt0p
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If you look at the council planning site for this there has been a discussion on the parking situation. Also the agent needs to go back to the council as the environment agency side of the council objected to it given its location....
Gramaisc
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People have had cars locked in there overnight a few times.
Mikinton
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Thanks. I did click the link but couldn't get it to work (and then rather gave-up).
Mikinton
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I hope they're happy with responses regarding possible flooding. If there's one thing I associate with that car park from having used back in the 1980s (when it was free), it was the occasional flooding. And it's got worse in recent years before this new car park was built. Still, it ain't my problem.
Cue
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It would all gather by Maccy’s too. As you get further into the carpark it all goes uphill
Thehooperman
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Or it may have a 4 hour limit and this would be too time limited to stuff your mega whopper triple sized family bucket humongous shite king size burger with fries down ya fat face
Noah
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Sign on the front now says something like "Harvey's Autos"
c0tt0nt0p
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Yes I noticed, never got chance to post.... Will be interesting to see how they do.
Flooding is no longer an issue on this car park, the last winter is proof of that.
a car park that flooded 3 times a year simply due to poor maintenance and design. Let alone the flooding never reached the area of this proposal.
Mikinton
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3 times - twice for a month and once for 8 weeks.
Let's hope they keep the maintenance up to spec. If there was ever a winter when it wasn't going to flood, last year was probably it.
I well remember the flood of 2000. It was a Tuesday and we had to cancel 5-a-side at Riverside. A colleague had to give my boss a piggy-back to her landrover on the County Council car park.
http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/Flood2000a.htm
Didn't the area by the proposed McDonald's flood in 2000 and again in 2007. Has the land at the proposed mc donalds been raised since?
Is it really a 4 hour limit? I was told a while back it was only 2 hours. I'll have to look at the signs next time I'm there.Or it may have a 4 hour limit and this would be too time limited to stuff your mega whopper triple sized family bucket humongous shite king size burger with fries down ya fat face
Gramaisc
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You are right the car park flooded regularly with any amount of ample rain. For significant periods of wet weather about 80% of the then council staff car park ( in the week) would be inaccessible, sometimes worse.
It was certainly the case after snow melted which we had plenty of last winter ( which flooded part of Victoria park last). Proof is in the result, cannot remember a year the car park did not flood, bar the last year.
That said all they had to do was level it out, the previous car park was on such a slope the water had nowhere to go except downhill where it met the marsh and would pool, such was the poor design exasperated by equally shoddy maintenance.
That won't happen now especially as there is proper drainage and an overflow system which pushes high water table from the marsh underneath the car park via drainage outflow