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

[gilesjuk]

Another grim cheap shit estate with no green space or infrastructure and identikit over priced boxes . I despair

One thing I noticed when I looked around the former BRC estate, the roads are very narrow. Things like roads, pavement seem to be wasted space to these developers. A parked car and a bin lorry and you aren't going anywhere and there's only one way in/out on these estates.

 

[Mudgie]

One thing I noticed when I looked around the former BRC estate, the roads are very narrow. Things like roads, pavement seem to be wasted space to these developers. A parked car and a bin lorry and you aren't going anywhere and there's only one way in/out on these estates.

The developer probably realised that owning a car there will be futile and within a couple of years nearly all the residents will all be pedestrians and cyclists.

 

[Gramaisc]

The developer probably realised that owning a car there will be futile and within a couple of years nearly all the residents will all be pedestrians and cyclists.

Or the developer probably realised that people will buy the houses anyway, and they can argue about the parking amongst themselves, after the money has been lodged safely in the developer's account.

 

[tek-monkey]

The trick is to sell them all before anyone moves in, so it looks like there's loads of space but really next door has 2 SUVs and a 20 foot work van with a driveway that fits a mini

 

[Gramaisc]

The trick is to sell them all before anyone moves in, so it looks like there's loads of space but really next door has 2 SUVs and a 20 foot work van with a driveway that fits a mini

Even Minis have got fatter over the years.

Houses get smaller and furniture gets bigger - and more of it - plus the inevitable 'stuff'.

 

[airbusA346]

No doubt another estate where a 2 bed semi costs 10x the average wage, due to its convenient location within the gridlock. Is all traffic being dumped to the Wolverhampton road?

Do they even build 1/2 bed homes on any of these the new estates?

The trick is to sell them all before anyone moves in, so it looks like there's loads of space but really next door has 2 SUVs and a 20 foot work van with a driveway that fits a mini

Don't forget the garage that you can just about fit a small car in. Even though I bet the majority of the garages get filled with s***.

 

[Mudgie]

Do they even build 1/2 bed homes on any of these the new estates?


Don't forget the garage that you can just about fit a small car in. Even though I bet the majority of the garages get filled with s***.

I've never heard of a ½ bed home.
Maybe it's like the time share of old, one resident working normal hours and the other night shifts.

 

[BobClay]

I've never heard of a ½ bed home.
Maybe it's like the time share of old, one resident working normal hours and the other night shifts.

Submariner's bunks. Changeover of watch, one gets up and goes on watch. One comes off watch and turns in. (This is in the pre-nuclear conventional sub days.) Can't see there being much work for a submarine in Stafford though ...... unless of course the flooding gets worse.

 

[joshua]

Submariner's bunks. Changeover of watch, one gets up and goes on watch. One comes off watch and turns in. (This is in the pre-nuclear conventional sub days.) Can't see there being much work for a submarine in Stafford though ...... unless of course the flooding gets worse.

Hot beds (oh no thats a different, err thing)

 

[BobClay]

Ahhhh !! .... so you've been up the road in Bangkok then ....

 

[Gramaisc]

Submariner's bunks. Changeover of watch, one gets up and goes on watch. One comes off watch and turns in. (This is in the pre-nuclear conventional sub days.) Can't see there being much work for a submarine in Stafford though ...... unless of course the flooding gets worse.

Wasn't the Sea Cadets place on Riverway called TS Superb at one time?

HMS Superb was a submarine that was involved in a collision with the planet in the Red Sea and is now tied up in retirement in Devonport.

 

[Mudgie]

Submariner's bunks. Changeover of watch, one gets up and goes on watch. One comes off watch and turns in. (This is in the pre-nuclear conventional sub days.) Can't see there being much work for a submarine in Stafford though ...... unless of course the flooding gets worse.

Bob,
And not just bunks shared ?
Is it right that a pair of underpants lasts eight days before being washed ?

 

[BobClay]

Is it right that a pair of underpants lasts eight days before being washed ?

Errrrr ? ... and this is unusual .... ? (I really will have to dig out those instructions for the washing machine .... )

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

I've seen the revised panes l plans for the Bellway estate... Some of the houses now have 2 ensuites, a bathroom and a downstairs loo...

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

Or perhaps a property with no doors either side leading out of the kitchen...

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

Do they even build 1/2 bed homes on any of these the new estates?


Don't forget the garage that you can just about fit a small car in. Even though I bet the majority of the garages get filled with s***.

Here is a floor plan for the 2 bed...

 

[Theresa Green]

You can fit three new homes into every living room in Hopton Heights

Fact

In the olden days Stock Brokers wore belts

Then they invented Yuppies who had to wear red braces

 

[basil]

I did a stretch in Transformers during the mid 70s. Recall a massive car park at Stychfields also ample parking in front of offices at the main gate and plenty of parking over where the the cricket club is.

Motor vehicles !! fousands of 'em........

 

[Gramaisc]

I did a stretch in Transformers during the mid 70s. Recall a massive car park at Stychfields also ample parking in front of offices at the main gate and plenty of parking over where the the cricket club is.

Motor vehicles !! fousands of 'em........

Plenty of parking in front of Transformer office block, you say?

I recall the cops arriving when a dispute over a parking space resulted in a knife being produced...

 

[basil]

Duffy v Holden ?......