HS2 Options

[Andy Capp]

To briefly mention HS2....

I have sympathy for the proponents of HS2. Some people say why can't we have a high speed rail network like they have on the Continent, and then object to us building one.

I remember the row about the M25. When it was finally built, people then complained that there weren't any service stations/rest areas - what, on the same green belt you didn't want built on in the first place?

This deserves another thread.

[blackdog]

Newbury's great communications are making it a dormitory town for Reading and London. With all the new housing going up this will only get worse, after all there are no significant new employers coming to town, which would be difficult anyway with industrial areas becoming housing plots and offices being turned into flats.

[On the edge]

Newbury's great communications are making it a dormitory town for Reading and London. With all the new housing going up this will only get worse, after all there are no significant new employers coming to town, which would be difficult anyway with industrial areas becoming housing plots and offices being turned into flats.

All part of the Master Plan, I thought you knew!

[blackdog]

All part of the Master Plan, I thought you knew!

I'd be impressed if I thought there was a plan - but all that happens is knee jerk responses to 'problems' of the moment. At the moment housing is the big issue so planning is imbalanced to encourage house building. It doesn't seem to have occured to them (govt) that creating new dormitory communities might result in a need for new transport infrastructure.

Instead we get wittering about home working and planning legislation to ensure houses have space to store pushbikes.

[On the edge]

I'd be impressed if I thought there was a plan - but all that happens is knee jerk responses to 'problems' of the moment. At the moment housing is the big issue so planning is imbalanced to encourage house building. It doesn't seem to have occured to them (govt) that creating new dormitory communities might result in a need for new transport infrastructure.

Instead we get wittering about home working and planning legislation to ensure houses have space to store pushbikes.

Yes, quite agree! It's ready, fire, aim planning. Just an aside that illustrates this. In the free Reading Chronicle they give out in Sainsburys, the Royal Berks Hospital Management are saying lack of parking isn't a problem. The real issue is trying to stop people coming to one big building for treatment......errr might that just be the result of you down grading local facilities to concentrate everything on one site? Forward planning!