Worst Pot Holes in Stafford.

littleme

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tek-monkey said:
Those housing estates fill stafford with more cars and once built on restrict future roads, I think all new housing estates should have a through road tbh. Not every street obvs, but have one major route through and their roads come off that. You buy your plot, not the estate.

The new beaconside estate for example, should have put something in from the A34 to as far along as possible on beaconside, so that if beaconside backs up there is an alternative.
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Yeah, we got stuck on beconside for around 20 minutes yesterday, annoying as we needed to visit a shop on the industrial estate part, 10 mins in there then 20 mins stuck trying to get home at school run time.
 
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gilesjuk

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kyoto49 said:
Yes that's a good point. Design the estate with a through road and cul de sacs off them, like Parkside then? If I remember correctly no one actually lives on the ring road but in all the little streets off it.
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Parkside and Wildwood are both like that. Wildwood unfortunately has quite a bad main entrance/exit. There is a second route along another branch of Wildwood Drive.

If you've ever tried to get around Meadowcroft Park or leave Ampleforth Drive you do wonder what they were thinking.
 
kyoto49

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gilesjuk said:
Parkside and Wildwood are both like that. Wildwood unfortunately has quite a bad main entrance/exit. There is a second route along another branch of Wildwood Drive.

If you've ever tried to get around Meadowcroft Park or leave Ampleforth Drive you do wonder what they were thinking.
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I always wonder what the planners are thinking when they build houses facing the main roads and on to roundabouts. Who would choose to live facing a roundabout or busy junction? The designs of the wildwood / Parkside ilk are so much more resident friendly than the current ones being dropped everywhere.
 
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gilesjuk

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kyoto49 said:
I always wonder what the planners are thinking when they build houses facing the main roads and on to roundabouts. Who would choose to live facing a roundabout or busy junction? The designs of the wildwood / Parkside ilk are so much more resident friendly than the current ones being dropped everywhere.
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Well, some people actually enjoy seeing life go by. One thing which you see on Wildwood is shared driveways/acces, they seem to be more and more common which would annoy me. Getting blocked in by someone visiting a neighbour. I mean, people block me in enough just having a driveway where I am now.

Example of what I mean, three homes and one shared drive. There's plenty of space for something better too!

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They've done it on the new estate too:

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Makes me wonder if there's a covenant about not having a caravan or motorhome? :)
 
staffordjas

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gilesjuk said:
Well, some people actually enjoy seeing life go by. One thing which you see on Wildwood is shared driveways/acces, they seem to be more and more common which would annoy me. Getting blocked in by someone visiting a neighbour. I mean, people block me in enough just having a driveway where I am now.

Example of what I mean, three homes and one shared drive. There's plenty of space for something better too!

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We had 40 years of yignorant prats blocking us in , parking across our obvious side of the adjoining driveways, and even parking right infront of our garage (with our car inside so couldn't get out) on that same road . Then we had the prats who parked on the road , completely blocking access to 5 houses down the shared approach driveway.
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Jonah

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kyoto49 said:
I always wonder what the planners are thinking when they build houses facing the main roads and on to roundabouts. Who would choose to live facing a roundabout or busy junction? The designs of the wildwood / Parkside ilk are so much more resident friendly than the current ones being dropped everywhere.
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I’m pretty sure that planning regulations were changed a few years ago to insist that houses face any existing roads.
 
Lucy

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I used to live on a main road. Loved sitting on the windowsill watching the world go by.

Actually, I live on a main road now, albeit it less busy. Damn those 18th century planners.
 
kyoto49

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Lucy said:
I used to live on a main road. Loved sitting on the windowsill watching the world go by.

Actually, I live on a main road now, albeit it less busy. Damn those 18th century planners.
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You don't worry about the air quality or get bothered by the noise and vibrations?
 
Glam

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Lucy said:
I used to live on a main road. Loved sitting on the windowsill watching the world go by.
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Same here, even though my view is a car park and 2 main roads, it's nice to just sit here at times watching folk go about their business.
 
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kyoto49 said:
Yes that's a good point. Design the estate with a through road and cul de sacs off them, like Parkside then? If I remember correctly no one actually lives on the ring road but in all the little streets off it.
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Wildwood is like that and to some extent Castlefields.
 
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gilesjuk

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kyoto49 said:
You don't worry about the air quality or get bothered by the noise and vibrations?
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I lived out in the sticks for a number of years, was a lot noisier than were I am now because you had idiots racing around the quiet roads late at night.

When I lived on a road with a fair amount of traffic you got used to the sound and then it was too quiet when I moved away.

Noise and vibration are worst on something like the A5 where there's a lot of truckers. Experienced it first hand when I slept at someone's house on the A5.
 
FreeITstafford

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Can I nominate this absolute beauty, exiting Burton Bank Lane onto the A449 south

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airbusA346

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gilesjuk said:
Makes me wonder if there's a covenant about not having a caravan or motorhome? :)
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It wouldn't surprise me... even if there wasn't, where could you park one on these new(ish) estates.

Some of the newer estates have covenants saying sign written commercial vehicles aren't allowed.
 
Glam

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airbusA346 said:
It wouldn't surprise me... even if there wasn't, where could you park one on these new(ish) estates.

Some of the newer estates have covenants saying sign written commercial vehicles aren't allowed.
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Baxter Green 40 years ago had one of those. Didn't stop knobhead nextdoor parking his BT van, or the weasel other side his BR one.
 
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gilesjuk

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Every time I turn off the A51 into A518 Weston there's a massive section of potholes or surface damage. Street View from Oct 2021 shows it has been a bit bad for a while.
 
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