Whaaattt?

Best of luck to your daughter for her exams and university prospects @Fat Controller . As for you and your BH, there's a lot to be said for leaving London so I hope that goes well.

 

Best of luck to you @Fat Controller with your intended move - the Angel of the North will welcome you with open arms

As for New Towns I think Milton Keynes was one of the more successful ones when it came into being - late 70's/early '80's I think ?. Infrastructure was well planned and altho it wasn't the most attractive place on earth, it became a popular area. Don't know what it is like now.

 

It's mentioned in the New Towns Taskforce Report:

A Renewed Town in Milton Keynes; reinvigorating the city centre and expanding to the city periphery whilst reshaping the way people travel, by delivering a Mass Rapid Transit system.

 

I am on a small community forum, just local folks within the county I live .
Today a person posts this --------looking for bags of leaves...only leaves, and only if you have several bags. Thanks!
So I replied, come on by you can have 100 bags of leaves, bring your own bags. LOL.

 

They’ll be delighted @redstar !

 

Actually I think what they want is someone else to have Bagged all the leaves for them, and they simply come and pick them up. We do not bag leaves here.

 

They might also be hoping for bags of clean, dry leaves for some purpose other than making leaf mould.

 

Tell me, do you deliver.

 

Even the countryside has changed and is changing!!!!!!

 

Most of the people around here who thought they had a safe haven in the countryside are finding big housing developments landing on their doorstep.
Country lanes clogged with traffic.

They have had one of the main routes out of town towards Hastings direction closed for 2 months here.
It's gas mains replacement, this is after they closed it in the same place for 6 weeks in the summer.
The diversion is miles out of your way so we have 40 ton artics blocking country lanes and unable to make turns, it's been chaos.
I thought we were going to stop using gas, but the amount of mains they are replacing I would say not in the next 50yrs or so.

 

Fortunately and more by luck than judgement when I moved to Devon I ended up in a quiet cul-de-sac and at the back of my garden is landed owned by the charity that owns Paignton Zoo. Thanks to the ground conditions steep, rocky disused limekilns and small quarries even if the rest of the Paignton Zoo site is built on that ground will not be developed anytime soon.
Locally Torbay Council have allowed a large number of housing developments, but no doctors, dentists, schools, pubs, small shops, recreation spaces, or space for small businesses.
Just off the main road between Paignton and Brixham in two miles there is Morrisons, Asda Sainsbury, Aldi and Lidl and more than seven sets of traffic lights.