[Travel] West Grinstead New Town

Cowfold Seagull said:

I wonder how you would feel, if a few thousand houses like that, (3,500 in the case of this proposed new development at West Grinstead), however lovely they may be, were built on green belt land, very close to where you live?

Yes l know, the population is rising, l know people need to live somewhere, but as others have said, it's the logistics that the developers seem to convenienly ignore. Where are people going to work? where are the kids going to go to school? where will they shop? where are the nearest available doctor's surgeries?, what are the transport links like?

Building the houses is just the easy bit.

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Brovion said:

I have NO sympathy. You can EASILY use public transport. There are buses running regularly through Sussex directly linking all the towns without any need to change or wait. These run every 15 minutes and run 24/7. Plus of course there is a station in West Grinstead so you can get a direct train up from Shoreham. If all else fails you can obviously cycle as you can do that EASILY. We certainly don't need any more or better roads as ALL roads do is encourage MORE cars.

Sorry about the text, but they don't let me have a proper computer in here.

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Brovion said:

That's exactly right. I've said before it's not 'Homes Alone' we need, but the infrastructure as you've listed (and I'm glad you included railways). There HAS to be an integrated approach, but of course there won't be all the while development is driven by private developers solely interested in profit.

There is something about planning that brings out the utter Stalinist in me. We need a centrally controlled system, and once an area has been selected for expansion, infrastructure as well, then all objectors (nimbys and faux environmentalists), need to be shot and buried under the foundations.

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WATFORD zero said:

At last, a sensible, well thought out planning policy

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