yet more affordable homes.

Jonah

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Thehooperman said:
How else does an area improve if nobody is the first to develop in the area.

Much better having some affordable homes near the town centre so that people don't also need cars to add to their outgoings, and the overall congestion, or need expensive public transport than leave empty commercial properties isn't it?

Also much better to build in an area like this than take even more "green belt".
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There needs to be a more coherent plan rather than just plonking a few ‘affordable’ homes in the middle of an area.
 
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markpa12003

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Jonah said:
There needs to be a more coherent plan rather than just plonking a few ‘affordable’ homes in the middle of an area.
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Agreed. There needs be an Area Action Plan for this whole area. It could be lovely but it currently feels a little unloved and ignored. Lots of decent pubs in this area; some lovely old buildings and very near to the town centre. It could be a really vibrant place to live, sadly it doesn't appear to be.

I do support more residential development in this location. It needs more people living in the area.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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There is potential and you do have to start, but you have to do more than just start.

The Box Factory renovations twenty-plus years ago were a good start...

The SRM site is a lot bigger than it looks from the road.

The Truview site is still abandoned, is it ten years yet, since they went to Mill Street?.

The old Irish Club / Buffs site has been derelict for thirty-plus years.

The site next to Atlas has been abandoned for most of forty years, but the 'raised' house on the other side was done up recently.

God knows what you could do with the Sandonia now..?
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Gramaisc said:
The Truview site is still abandoned, is it ten years yet, since they went to Mill Street?.
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Mmm, only five years.

I actually thought it was about five, but experience led me to double it, as it's usually twice as long ago as I think...
 
Cue

Cue

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Gramaisc said:
The Box Factory renovations twenty-plus years ago were a good start...
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Christ it was only 20 years or so ago?

We looked at one of them a few years ago, the upstairs was stunning but then you walked downstairs to single-glazed windows, it was cold and your bedroom window was level with the pavement outside so all you saw was people's feet going past constantly. The downstairs really let the place down as the amount of space you got upstairs was brilliant for the price.
 
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