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The high house is a listed building though, so is protected. If I thought a building of significance was going I'd be campaigning to keep it, but not a field just because of the view.
i don't think tek meant that - he was just saying that even if one buys a house with a view, there is no legal entitlement to that view/one shouldn't expect that view to last forever..
i specifically addressed this point in my last postWhere is that 'head banging against a wall' smiley....
See above posts - i'm not talking (or bothered) about people's views out of their windows. If we all want a nice town to live in then IMHO we need some nice open green spaces, whether these are Castlefields, Baswich/Milford or anywhere else.
all new developments have very strict controls over what percentage of the final build has to be parks/greenland, and it's surprisingly high.. take a stroll round the new redrow houses near doxey, or the bovis st. george's ones - the parks are massive! they've got bike tracks, park benches, and all sorts.. very nice indeed, and definitely not concrete jungles
The other thing no-one has addressed is where all of the occupants of these 2200 houses (plus the rest in all of the other developemnts will all work to afford these (doubtless) overpriced cardboard boxes with no gardens. Will they use Stafford as commuter town - good luck if they do when traffic grinds to a halt every week day, or will they be unemployed because I can't see too many businesses coming to Stafford at the moment, certainly not ones offering hundreds of jobs. Would be interested to know where that sits with "the more development the better" DB?
Back on track, I want a (wo)Man vs Burrito!
EDIT: Oh yeah, there is a Hungry Horse on the bridge at Rhyl, as you're passing that way
Back on track, I want a (wo)Man vs Burrito!
EDIT: Oh yeah, there is a Hungry Horse on the bridge at Rhyl, as you're passing that way
dunno, but the fact is the demand is there (hence the prices which, in your opinion, are too high), so whether they commute or work in stafford is moot really.. the 2200 house development you mention does include schools, shops, etc. as well as residential building, so there will be a small amount of employment opportunities there i guess..
i am fortunate enough to live in one of the new houses around town - they are anything but overpriced cardboard boxes with no gardens, i assure thee that a couple of our close friends bought a lovely big house on castlefields about a year ago, and they are so enamoured with our new house that they are giving serious consideration to going through all the heartache & stress of moving again, because our "cardboard box with no garden" is such value for money.. not trying to brag (sorry if it sounds like that, just chuffed to bits with everything) - just pointing out that there is a misconception that all new houses are just thrown together and are over-priced, corner-cutting eye-sores, when that's not necessarily true.. our garden is about 6m x 9m, which is more than enough for our needs, and is south facing so squeezes every drop of sunlight out of the sky
no-one is saying the people aren't allowed an opinion, and that campaigning for retaining greenfields is wrong - simply that demand for houses (or, in this case, a nice family restaurant chain) is not going to go away, and like it or not capitalism ain't going away either, so if people want houses and are willing to pay for them, you can be assured that those houses will get built whether (other) people like it or not.. a more sensible campaign would be to accept this fact, and so try to get the developers to agree to retain a certain amount of greenfield, or maintain the local aesthetic, or some other compromise..
All your opinion (which you are of course entitled to) and which I tend to disagree with (amounts of leisure spaces on new build developments, the standard of new builds etc) but hey-ho, that's life.
The place you have moved to sounds nice and really glad you're happy with it. Care to share where it is? As above, I tend to think all new-builds are shizzle and can't wait to get out of mine into an older house with more than 1m between me and the next 'detatched' house.... but always happy to be proven wrong if you've found new builds somewhere that don't confirm to the (usually correct IMHO) stereotypes.
Although (to show the difference in opinions / ideals here) my current garden must be about the size you mention and for me its far too small... but I suppose for the price of the house that's what you get and fortunately we will be able to stretch ourselves a little more for our next house. Wasn't the garden on your Castlefields house about that size too?
Overall though, I could live with a garden that size if it wasn't for about 10 houses overlooking you when you're in the garden and the 5 gardens within the vicinity are all close enough to hear you fart. I walked through Castle View again over the weekend and still not impressed although didn't find the leisure spaces you mentioned.
although i fear not, as your opinion of them seems to be so deep rooted i dare say your notions may be hard to shift!
I said:but always happy to be proven wrong if you've found new builds somewhere that don't confirm to the (usually correct IMHO) stereotypes.
me & ms. db specifically wanted a new house - i.e. we wanted all mod-cons, energy efficiency, new kitchen, everything matching, etc..
two friends of ours are hoping to buy a house on the new 2200 house development mentioned elsewhere, so we went for a walk around the adjacent castle view estate over the weekend so they could get a feel for what those houses may be like.. not sure how you managed to miss the "leisure space" - it's only a small estate, and that takes up about 20% of it! bike track, climbing frames, park benches, etc.. it's at the back of the estate (i.e. furthest from the road, nice quiet area near the fields)..
regardless, as i mentioned above i think it's just that we want different things out of houses.. i was just making the point that they are perfectly decent houses, many (many, many) people want them, hence the demand, hence the price, hence them being built.. they're not to everyone's tastes, but thank god, otherwise they would be even more expensive!
Looks like they are break groud on the new Hungry Horse Pub today. The road outside is all barried up and a JCB and earth mover where in the plot early this morning.
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