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« Reply #15 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 16:16:29 » |
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Oakfield would be ideal.
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« Reply #16 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 16:18:07 » |
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ha ace.
my company are working on the travel plans and access routes for this development etc.
i'm been creating plans all week for the reports which have gone to this enquiry.
Have they worked out there are houses where they plan on putting in the access roads yet? Last round of enquiries, the developers unveiled their plans and my neighbours pointed out that their access roads went through their lounge, to which the developers confidently replied that there were no houses down there, only to retreat in blushing confusion when they realised there are, we live in them and they just hadn't allowed for them |
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« Reply #17 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 16:23:31 » |
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if this is the area i'm thinking of (possibly not) which is west of Commonhead Roundabout?
I've been working on designs for a development there, including new signalisation of M4 J15 and new slip lanes and access road off the A419 into the site
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« Reply #18 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 16:26:26 » |
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if this is the area i'm thinking of (possibly not) which is west of Commonhead Roundabout?
I've been working on designs for a development there, including new signalisation of M4 J15 and new slip lanes and access road off the A419 into the site
Yep that's the one. Do us a favour and keep the access road out of my front room this time. |
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« Reply #19 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 16:29:33 » |
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which access road you talking of?
i've been working on the M4 J15 and a third lane approach to commonhead.
the actual development design is done by the architects which we aren't. We do Highways and transport microsimulation modeling.
and anyway, i assume your front room would be quite nice to drive through
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« Reply #20 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 16:47:54 » |
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Yep that's the one. Do us a favour and keep the access road out of my front room this time.
Couldn't they use your lava lamps as traffic lights ? |
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« Reply #21 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 16:55:07 » |
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Paul could be the Lollipop man.
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« Reply #22 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 16:58:22 » |
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which access road you talking of?
i've been working on the M4 J15 and a third lane approach to commonhead.
the actual development design is done by the architects which we aren't. We do Highways and transport microsimulation modeling.
and anyway, i assume your front room would be quite nice to drive through
We'd need to tidy round a little bit first. And hoover a bit. We could make our kitchen a drive-thru |
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« Reply #23 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 18:09:00 » |
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Develop a campus at North Star and you would bring thousands of students in to the town itself. Bars, restaurants, bookshops, arts facilities - they would all improve. Coate is nearly 4 miles out of town, and a campus there would do nothing for the town. Swindon has ignored its town centre for too long...and it shows.
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« Reply #24 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 18:20:21 » |
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4 miles from Town
And I did say 'nearly'. |
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« Reply #25 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 18:23:11 » |
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Huh. fair enough.
If theres a fully fledged uni though it can only be good for the town
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« Reply #26 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 18:25:53 » |
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My Nan lives near Coate. It is easily walkable from there to town in an hour or so:
Up Pakenham Rd., Keep going straight and through Lawn Woods into Old town. From Old town down Vic hill and you are there.
Not far at all.
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« Reply #27 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 18:27:10 » |
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And for the record, I'd prefer Coate to be left as it is.
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« Reply #28 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 18:47:09 » |
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I'm still a bit confused why we can't have one of the two colleges just keep developing and progress to University status? Swindon College already has a decent sized building able to cater for several thousand and plenty of land exists that way, plus a load of freed up land in the Town Centre that is unlikely to see development for a fair few years now. It's clearly a housing deal, in which case they should just say so. For all manner of reasons it seems like the worst possible site for a Uni and I'm in 2 minds about whether having a Uni will do much for Swindon anyway, especially if it's just an outreach arm of another towns one. Will we be the next Telfrod?
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« Reply #29 on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 23:08:14 » |
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My Nan lives near Coate. It is easily walkable from there to town in an hour or so:
Up Pakenham Rd., Keep going straight and through Lawn Woods into Old town. From Old town down Vic hill and you are there.
Not far at all.
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