ex-EE/GEC/Alstom/GE Main Works Development.

[Noah]

Wander down to Queens and there are three versions of Costa & a Greggs - or a pint at the Spittal Brook

 

[Mudgie]

I agree £4 plus cost coffee price.
I would rather have a pint at the spittal brook.

Yes, and just under £4 a pint when I was last there several months ago I think.

 

[Wormella]

Whole point of a 15 minute city is everything you need nearby

I live in this bit of town and it feels as close to it as I can imagine getting - the range of places / facilities I can get to on foot in 15 minutes is great.

 

[gilesjuk]

15 minute cities are a dream for chain shops and a nightmare for local independents. A chain can open franchise stores in each area. Local independent businesses won't be able to sustain their businesses from the trade in their 15 minute zone like a chain store with brand recognition and higher buying power can.

So they're probably being proposed by big multinationals to the WEF, EU etc as a solution to net zero because they know an independent business won't be able to cope. The same reason these multinationals lobbied the EU for more regulations and rules as they know it would stop SMEs challenging their position in the market, a big company can afford a legal department to deal with all the compliance issues.

 

[tek-monkey]

15 minute cities are a dream for chain shops and a nightmare for local independents. A chain can open franchise stores in each area. Local independent businesses won't be able to sustain their businesses from the trade in their 15 minute zone like a chain store with brand recognition and higher buying power can.

So they're probably being proposed by big multinationals to the WEF, EU etc as a solution to net zero because they know an independent business won't be able to cope. The same reason these multinationals lobbied the EU for more regulations and rules as they know it would stop SMEs challenging their position in the market, a big company can afford a legal department to deal with all the compliance issues.

Nowt to stop an independent being the business near your house, nobody says there can be only one and nobody says you can't travel further if you want, the idea is simply that you can find all services within 15 minutes of travel.

It won't be all services though, just the main ones. As an example the nearest vet for my geckos is Edgbaston

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

Bellway have announced some of their plans.... 3 bed semi for £295k lol
And surprise surprise the affordable housing and 50% share homes face the goods yard of the Hough retail park
Bellway Stafford

 

[tek-monkey]

Something I find weird here, we never list house sizes. Over in Latvia they list the sqm as standard, it's a search criteria, and that seems common in a number of countries I've looked, but never here.

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

Something I find weird here, we never list house sizes. Over in Latvia they list the sqm as standard, it's a search criteria, and that seems common in a number of countries I've looked, but never here.

The house we bought on the crossings estate 15 years ago listed the sq ft on the plans but yes, it's not as common as in other countries

 

[Pheasant boy]

3 bed semi at £295k
Nice price for the commuter.
I will take 3 lol

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

of the 7 x 3 bed houses they've currently got for sale, only one has a garage (total cost £322,500), and its an extra £13,500 over an equivalent house without a garage. I don't feel too bad now about my place on the Crossings, for all its problems !!!!

 

[StaffordPerson]

Site plan seems to have very few of the 'affordable' ones

 

[StaffordPerson]

And a £250 annual "estate management charge" is a red flag

 

[Mudgie]

of the 7 x 3 bed houses they've currently got for sale, only one has a garage (total cost £322,500), and its an extra £13,500 over an equivalent house without a garage. I don't feel too bad now about my place on the Crossings, for all its problems !!!!

Very few motorists uses their garage for its original purpose nowadays as their vehicle is too big.
Anyway, we're all meant to be cycling.

 

[Pheasant boy]

£250 estate management charge .
What do thay do for that?

 

[Trumpet]

Manage the estate.

 

[Gramaisc]

£250 estate management charge .
What do thay do for that?

Carefully decide how much to put it up each year?

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

When we bought our house on the crossings 15 years ago the original house on had a garage away from the house and we had to pay a fee to access the garage..... We changed the plot.....

 

[Pheasant boy]

Manage the estate.

There is always one lol

 

[Cue]

of the 7 x 3 bed houses they've currently got for sale, only one has a garage (total cost £322,500), and its an extra £13,500 over an equivalent house without a garage. I don't feel too bad now about my place on the Crossings, for all its problems !!!!

Sounds about right, new build pricing is a joke.

And a £250 annual "estate management charge" is a red flag

Gotta pay for the tarmac they’ll use to slapdash fix the dropped curbs when they destroy the road during expansions (if the Beaconside one is anything to go by) somehow

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

Feel I've a bit of a moral victory. A few months ago Bellway put up a number off hideous metal advert boards attached to lamposts from Park House vets through to Ranshaw drive at the start of the new estate.
Raised a complaint with the council a few weeks before Christmas and they've all been taken down