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    Parking in Stafford.

    The "no return in 1 hour" rule is the most stupid one. Suppose you leave the car park then realise you've forgotten to buy something or lost something in the store. You go back in and boom, £70 fine.
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    Guildhall closure?

    They build more houses than road capacity and parking. The buses are useless and so nobody wants to try to get to the shops.
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    House prices - what is wrong with this place?

    Perhaps that's fallen somehow then, as my figure was for 2023.
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    House prices - what is wrong with this place?

    It's actually £34,963 now.
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    Stafford Traffic.

    Friend who works for GE has said it's been a pretty bad 2023 in terms of output. Quite a few things going wrong, failing tests.
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    House prices - what is wrong with this place?

    Generally speaking, wages gets paid based upon the cost of living in a country. So while property is cheaper in some countries, the wages are lower too. Take Japan for instance, Japanese families have small homes and if they moved to the west they'd be quite wealthy. Of course, in some jobs you...
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    Stafford Traffic.

    Widening the road from the roundabout to the cross roads to be a dual carriageway. Install the lights. Cables need laying under the ground etc. It's much faster if you can close the road off but I'm sure it will have to stay open.
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    RIP St. Leonard's - English Electric/GEC Measurements/M.R.I/Alstom.

    Major structural damage then. For mine there was no mention of brickwork cracks and when I redid my kitchen I found the gas boiler fitter had filled the hole in the wall badly. A breeze block, some newspaper and filler. When I removed that and saw the outer wall (house has cavity walls) I could...
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    RIP St. Leonard's - English Electric/GEC Measurements/M.R.I/Alstom.

    Probably after they had given it a spin?
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    RIP St. Leonard's - English Electric/GEC Measurements/M.R.I/Alstom.

    Well, I do wonder what the mortgage surveyors actually do. I think they turn up and check if there's a house there and if it looks like it's about to fall down. If not they write the value of the house as paid on the valuation. I'm sure they mentioned mine was in need of modernisation, you don't...
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    ex-EE/GEC/Alstom/GE Main Works Development.

    Cars have been getting bigger. The VW Polo became the size of a Golf. Look at what a Toyota Yaris is these days, much larger than before.
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    Stafford Traffic.

    Not difficult at all and there's already ferric detection sensors in the road for traffic lights. Sometimes the traffic lights are actually programmed to turn to red if they detect that someone is over the speed limit (there's two sets of sensors in the road and they clearly check the time...
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    RIP St. Leonard's - English Electric/GEC Measurements/M.R.I/Alstom.

    Well, I would hope the buyers solicitors would do the necessary checks? Surely the mandatory survey on behalf of the bank providing the mortgage would do this too? they stand to lose their money if they can't sell the house in the case of a repossession. Use of PFI is a decision made at local...
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    RIP St. Leonard's - English Electric/GEC Measurements/M.R.I/Alstom.

    Not cheaper in the long run as you'll find it difficult to get home insurance on them. Having home insurance (buildings cover) is usually a condition of your mortgage too. When I was buying I consulted the flood maps and one house on Gladstone Way I was interested in was close to floods...
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    Stafford Traffic.

    And full time traffic lights too. So that even at 3am you have to wait.
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    Stafford Traffic.

    I get the impression there's an aversion to roundabouts in Stafford due to all the wide loads that need to be transported from Alstom. They would need to be very large roundabouts, often with a centre bypass lane.
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    Lake Sandon.

    What's the worst that can happen :)
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    Lake Sandon.

    That's one car park that won't be getting EV chargers any time soon.
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    Greyhound or Sighthound owners.

    Got Ginny's 6 month test results today. An antibody level reduction from 105.9 to 85. I was expecting a higher fall but I'm told that it won't ever fall to a very low level. The vet is happy with the outcome as she's not showing signs and her other tests were good. More treatment will only be...
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    Lake Sandon.

    These flooded roads explain why the traffic was bad on Radford Bank/A34 earlier. When the details of the development of that site for Morrisons was first announced it seemed like a very bad idea given the land the car park extension was built on.
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