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With the ongoing consultation on the planning applications in full flow, it is time for a quick update. Firstly the deadline for comments on the two planning applications has now been synchronised on 5th December, so you only have a couple of weeks left to have your say. If you want a chance to go through the plans, talk to local councillors and also ask questions of the developers Finchampstead Parish Council have organised another opportunity to do so on Saturday 22 November 2014 at Nine Mile Ride School from 3pm to 5pm. Our experience from previous exhibitions is that this is a good opportunity to put specific points to the developers and politicians who react a lot more proactively face to face with residents, certainly we are aware of changes that were made to submitted plans after residents with particular issues took them up face-to-face with Crest Nicholson.
Some of the first responses to the consultation are now starting to appear on the council web site. As always we can't link directly to the applications because of the way the council website is designed, however following the instructions in this post you can find the applications and read what people are saying.
The themes are pretty much what you would expect, but a few points to bear in mind:
From feedback we've had so far the big issue once again is traffic and traffic mitigation. The liberal use of traffic calming in the current plans have gone down no better than the liberal use of traffic lights in the previous plan. There are also notable gaps demonstrating a lack of understanding of local roads, so for example in Finchampstead restricting Park Lane and slowing traffic through California Crossroads without doing anything to Church Lane and White Horse Lane is a recipe for people rat running along White Horse Lane, a common problem currently when there are holdups at California Crossroads after a closure of the A327.
As always the lack of a coherent solution to the A327 through Eversley, especially considering that all the remaining MoD personnel who currently walk to work on the Garrison will be heading towards Aldershot will also be going this way features in comments. We suspect the high level representation from Hampshire County Council will also be concerned about this.
Environmental concerns have come up, in particular what the effect of building on Hogwood Farm will have on the bottom end of Park Lane and New Mill Lane – somewhere that has flooded in the past few years – and further downstream on Swallowfield. Certainly people have concerns about the proposed handling of water on both developments.
The comment by Crest Nicholson representative Hugo Reeve at the last Community Forum that his planning application needed to be approved to release the land for the school, a statement that is also made in the planning documents themselves also continues to be of concern, especially to those parents looking for a school at the earliest opportunity. We have had informal discussions with several councillors who are insistent that this is not the case and that they can proceed with the school without having to have the main planning application approved, including one or two who have said that had they been at the forum they would have highlighted when Hugo made the statement that this was not the case. Unfortunately despite the leader of the council and former lead member for development being present at that forum he did not object, and every subsequent statement from the council has a lot of fluff about an ongoing process of negotiation, but no the kind of unequivocal statement on the school that people need.
There was a recent meeting to discuss the school plans in more detail where the plans were revealed. Sadly the need to meet the tight timescales has resulted in the council settling on one of the new, much criticised standardised designs that were put forward by the current government a few years ago, whilst the parent group are putting forward their ideas, ultimately the need to get the school built on time will almost certainly mean that rather than a design that fits into the vision for the new community we will have something very close to the standardised designs commissioned by former Education Secretary Michael Gove.
Whatever your particular concerns, it is important that you get them in by 5th December to ensure they are noted. Whilst in practice the council usually accepts comments after this date, they don't have to so please try to get them in time.
Alongside the main planning applications, there is another consultation taking place which will be of particular interest to Arborfield residents, which is for the Arborfield and Newland Village Design Statement. Whilst this document can't stop development coming to Arborfield, it can guide developers as to how local residents want those developments to be built, so is an important document. You can find a link to the proposals and details of how to comment on this page on the Wokingham Borough website.
Finally, one sad bit of news in that Trinity Mirror who own the Reading Post and Wokingham Times amongst other newspapers has decided to close all their Berkshire titles in favour of an online only model, making a number of redundancies. Reporters from the Wokingham Times have been to almost as many meetings and forums as some of the residents and have reported the twists and turns of the Garrison development for many years. We'd like to thank them for all their support over the years and offer our best wishes to those who are being made redundant in the run up to Christmas.
We expect our planing application to be given the nod because it is in everybody's interest for the project to go ahead.
So says Scott Black, Crest Nicholson's group director of new business in the front page story of the Wokingham News this week.
But is it in your interest? If you're a highly paid director of a major house builder, getting the maximum number of houses for the minimum outlay on infrastructure it probably is in your best interest, if you're a Ministry of Defence bureaucrat wanting the money to build the new facilities for REME in Wiltshire it is probably in your best interest, if you're an officer at Wokingham Borough Council worried about delivering a school promised to desperate local parents in September 2016 it is probably in your best interest, but for the rest of us maybe it isn't.
If you're a resident of Badger's Mount who believed Wokingham Borough Council when they assured them that the Supplementary Planning Document would protect their green spaces, keep the new development back from their home, and showed the main route from the north of the development into the centre diverted well away from their homes this isn't in your best interest. Crest Nicholson have decided to ignore that part of the Supplementary Planning Document and are proposing to fell trees to build houses on the supposedly protected green, and will direct increased levels of traffic past their houses avoiding their new development. It's not in their interest.
But then it is a lot cheaper to build houses on the undeveloped land on the greens than clear developed army land, and the new residents won't like having a main access road past their houses. The existing residents need to make some sacrifices to ensure Crest Nicholson can make enough profit and Scott Black can get a nice bonus.
If you're a resident of Finchampstead or Eversley who lives around the Tally Ho, it's not in your best interest as the robust planning application from Crest Nicholson offers little hope for you. Once these 3,500 houses are built on the site of one of the main local employers it won't only be residents from the new houses coming past your homes on the way to work, you'll get all the soldiers still housed here coming past on the way to their base in Aldershot – and yet Crest Nicholson aren't looking at any sort of bypass for Eversley, and Wokingham Borough Council and Hampshire County Council aren't willing to put up the money either.
But then it is a lot cheaper to not build the bypass. The existing residents need to make some sacrifices to ensure Crest Nicholson can make enough profit and Scott Black can get a nice bonus.
If you're a resident of Arborfield you're in a bit better position, as the council has agreed to build a bypass – but don't ask how it's being paid for as it's not Crest Nicholson paying up, they're making a contribution but you can bet it will be as small as they can make it to ensure Crest Nicholson can make enough profit and Scott Black can get a nice bonus.
If you live around California Crossroads you're going to get the junction rebuilt with raised multicoloured bricks, but will following the yellow brick road solve the traffic chaos when thousands of extra residents come up and down the Nine Mile Ride every day?
But then it is a lot cheaper to provide some pretty coloured bricks. The existing residents need to make some sacrifices to ensure Crest Nicholson can make enough profit and Scott Black can get a nice bonus.
If you're a resident of Barkham you get the pretty bricks and paint too, but again what happened when thousands of extra residents try to get through there every day avoiding the inevitable queues at the bridge?
But then actually solving the traffic problems your high profile development will cause is expensive. The existing residents need to make some sacrifices to ensure Crest Nicholson can make enough profit and Scott Black can get a nice bonus.
What about the new residents, the people who will come to these new houses? The illustrative plan makes things look quite pleasant – but then has anybody counted the number of houses on the plan?
If they built the number of houses shown on their illustrative plan it probably would be quite pleasant, and would meet the density of a garden village which in the garden village developments that their marketing harks back to was an absolute maximum of 12 houses per acre. Instead they will build 2000 houses, because building any less would affect the profits Crest Nicholson can make, and Scott Black's nice bonus.
Let us not forget, for all their comments about what a great place this development will be, neither Scott Black or any of his colleagues, nor the Wokingham Borough Council officers will have to live here while it is being built. A couple of the local councillors live close, and only one actually lives on the SDL, but as the councillors on the planning committee come to make the decision are they looking at the ways this application ignores their adopted planning document, or will gridlock local traffic, or are they looking at the promise so many of them backed to open a school in 2016 that is entirely dependent on this application being adopted on time? Which group of residents are they going to go with, will it be the parents desperate for a new school in September 2016 as Scott Black expects, or the numerous other residents whose interest is not served by the current plans?
We asked precisely that question on BBC Berkshire last week – neither Crest Nicholson or Wokingham Borough Council were willing to answer that question in person.
Let's be clear, we agree with Scott Black, the borough needs new houses, and we need a new school, but at any cost? If he thinks this development is so fantastic, perhaps he can come join us and watch his utopia be built at close quarters from Park Lane.
Firstly, thanks to everybody who made the time to come along to the Community Forum on Thursday. Even if you didn't manage to make it, everybody should now have received a letter from the council with details of the two planning applications and details of how to comment. Just to clarify, as from a couple of conversations we have had some people are still confused, these two applications together cover the whole of the Arborfield Garrison SDL giving in total 3,500 houses, two primary schools, one secondary school, two neighbourhood centres, one district centre plus shops and community facilities. They are not some sort of either/or proposition.
Quickly summarising the presentations, the Marino application is little changed from what was presented earlier in the summer, the most significant change probably being for residents of Park Lane in that the stretch from the entrance of the industrial estate down all the way to the A327 will have restricted access, and a new road will be built taking HGV traffic straight onto the Nine Mile Ride Extension. We then (once they'd sorted the IT) had a more slick presentation from Crest Nicholson highlighting the changes made since the previous withdrawn planning application last year. These include a lowering of the density of the development from between 14 and 15 houses per acre to about 13 houses per acre, unfortunately at the expense of green space. There was a good deal of garden village marketing fluff again, but as always it is worth remembering that the garden village and garden city movement of a century ago that they are harking back to built to an absolute maximum of 12 houses per acre, and often at lower densities. In the intervening time housing average densities have increased, and what they are proposing is not going to be noticeably less dense than estates anywhere else around the area. Fundamentally there is not enough room to fit in 3,500 houses at the density residents would like in the space available to the developers, but that headline figure is what the council core strategy has designated this area to provide.
Thanks to those members who have already offered some feedback on the plans. Traffic and transport issues are once again topping the concerns. Whilst this application is avoiding the liberal sprinkling of traffic lights across the locality that we were presented with last year, the solutions this time around were neatly summed up by one comment we heard "it's amazing what they can do with paint these days" – basically we're looking at traffic calming as a primary tool to deal with the increase in traffic. The usual problem areas of the Tally Ho corner, California Crossroads, Barkham Bridge and the others are again featuring in comments, with people not exactly convinced.
The forum started with a presentation from the council giving the headlines with regards to the new school. The council line is absolutely adamant that the school will be delivered on time in September 2016, however in response to a question from the floor it became clear that is not the case. The school will be delivered on time if, and only if the AGLC planning application is approved on time. If that planning application is not approved, even if it is for some reason totally unrelated to the school or the school site, the school planning application cannot be approved, and the school will not be delivered.
It is also worth remembering at this point that for an application of this size it is not the planning professionals who approve, it is our elected representatives, and they can and do disagree with the official advice, so they can refuse an application recommend for approval by their officers, or alternatively they can approve an application over a recommendation for refusal by the officers. Recently the committee has approved a new gateway development for Wokingham, despite it being recommended for refusal for not fitting it with the surroundings. Also lets not forget that Curtin & Co the consultants employed by Crest Nicholson proudly promote how they have persuaded councillors to approve a number of contentious developments over recommendations for refusal from officers, and that a number of councillors have staked their reputations on delivering a school.
As a result it is very important that we let our councillors, in particular the planning committee themselves what we as residents regard as most important. Whilst there is a group of parents who are understandably concerned over the provision of school places, is the provision of a school for 2016 so overwhelmingly important that we are willing to make significant compromises over the larger planning application. The council guarantee of the school puts Crest Nicholson and the Arborfield Garrison Landowners Consortium in a powerful position to push for a development that will make them more money at the expense of local residents because they know that to achieve the goal of a school in 2016 the council has to pass their application. What is important is that as we put in our comments we let our councillors know whether we are happy for them to refuse the application, even if it means we won't get the school in 2016, in order to achieve a better overall development.
We are continuing to go through the extensive planning applications, and will post more comments as we do. Please also continue to share any comments and concerns or questions that you may have.
Both the outline planning applications for the two parts of the Arborfield Garrison Strategic Development Location are now in and published on the Wokingham Borough Council website. As previously we cannot link directly to the applications because of the way the council website is set up. To find the applications go to http://www.wokingham.gov.uk/planning/services/search/ and there put O/2014/2280 into the application number box for the Crest Nicholson/Arborfield Garrison Landowners Consortium application under Arborfield parish, or O/2014/2179 for the Marino Family development of Hogwood Farm under Finchampstead parish.
There is a significant volume of documentation for each of the proposals, so we will not be making any comment on the content until we have had a chance to go through the applications in detail ourselves. As previously, if you have any comments or feedback on the applications from your own reading, please share it. These are complex documents so the more pairs of eyes we have reading them the better view of the overall picture and any issues we will be able to get.
Also, don't forget that the rescheduled Arborfield Community Forum takes place on this Thursday, 23rd October, from 7pm at Henry Street Garden Centre, and includes an update on the school, along with presentations on both planning applications. Both applications are only open for comment for a few weeks (although we understand the council may try to extend this) and this will probably be the main chance us as residents will have to quiz both councillors and council officials, and also the applicants. Once these applications are approved certain aspects of what is going to happen to Arborfield Garrison are locked in, so it is critical that the applications are got right at this stage.
As a little bit of other news, you may have seen the comment piece we published last week having spotted Tom Curtin, CEO of Curtin & Co the consultancy hired by Crest Nicholson to push through the application, taking a leading role in a group called Caversham Residents Against Inappropriate Development, something we thought was at the very least rather ironic, perhaps hypocritical considering that his company specialises in pushing through just the kind of contentious planning applications that local residents close to them consider inappropriate. Things over in Caversham have taken a rather interesting turn in that the names of Tom Curtin and his wife disappeared off the CRAID site at the weekend, at about the same time as an anonymous newsletter was pushed through doors all across Caversham causing much anger amongst residents. One of those residents investigated who produced the newsletter via the delivery company that delivered them and traced it back not to Tom Curtin, but to Curtin & Co themselves, and he has now passed this on to Reading Trading Standards who have opened an investigation as the newsletter committed a "criminal breach" in the areas of data protection, unsolicited mail and not providing right of reply on the document/providing details of the sender. Needless to say we have highlighted this behaviour to Wokingham Borough Council and expressed our concern at such unprofessional and possibly illegal behaviour from a company that is so closely involved with the Arborfield Garrison SDL. You can keep up to date with what is going on over in Caversham on the Heights Primary School Facebook page. There is a report about the ongoing events in Caversham including comments from Tom Curtin on the anonymous newsletter in the Reading Chronicle.
You may remember just over a year ago, Crest Nicholson the developers appointed by the Arborfield Garrison Landowners Consortium to bring forward the northern part of the strategic development location appointed a consultancy called Curtin & Co to handle the consultation with local residents and interested parties. We were less than impressed as the reputation of Curtin & Co precedes them, and they are specialists in getting contentious developments through often over the objections of local residents, who like in Arborfield and Finchampstead consider the scale of what is proposed to be inappropriate, with poor mitigation for the obvious traffic problems that will be generated, and as we have discovered, existing community amenities being lost. The head of the consultancy Tom Curtin and one of his colleagues had even penned an essay discussing localism and rural "NIMBY's". You can read our thoughts at the time here.
Moving forward, over in Caversham, much like here in Wokingham there is a crisis over school places, and there is a long running battle over the location of a desperately needed new school, a school which for the moment has had to open over two miles away from it's intended catchment area. The education authorities have considered other sites but eventually settled on a 1 acre residential site, that has been thrown up in the air again, but with big names like Sir John Madjeski defending other potential sites.
The campaign against the free school location is spearheaded by an organisation called Caversham Residents Against Inappropriate Development, whose aims are pretty similar to ours – basically residents are frustrated at the apparent lack of consultation, the selection of what they regard as an inappropriate site, and a clear failure to consider traffic impacts and numerous other issues related to the proposed site. However things get a bit more interesting when you take a look at the list of people behind the group. Second on the list is Tom Curtin who "runs a public relations consultancy in London"…
Watching Meridian News last night there was a report with campaigners outside the proposed school site, and about 38 seconds in a local resident is interviewed. Take a look and then look at the staff at Curtin & Co the specialists in getting contentious developments through, in particular Tom Curtin himself…
At the very least it's quite ironic, that the man in charge of an organisation that is hired by housing developers across the country to push through contentious and inappropriate developments, and has clearly expressed his views on "NIMBY's" in the past is now doing much the same thing he has criticised residents elsewhere for in the past.
On his profile on his own website he says he is most proud of this:
Consistently delivering some great successes for our clients often on very difficult and contentious projects.
The current problems have been building over years and years of inappropriate development, the kind of developments that his organisation helps push through. Caversham is just another area that has had loads of housing developments over the years but without a similar investment in required infrastructure. So is it ironic that he's now fighting what he sees as inappropriate development in his own community – or is it just blatant hypocrisy?
It has been a little while since we have issued a news update, so we have a few important items to update everybody about.
Firstly, anybody who made specific comments about the building on the existing green space around the junction of Sheerlands Road and Baird Road, and the buffer between the existing houses on Badgers Mount and the new houses that will be built in the field adjacent, both of which were parts of the Wokingham Borough Council Supplementary Planning Document for the strategic development location should have received a letter from Crest Nicholson detailing proposed changes to their plans in light of the feedback. Alongside the comments from residents both Gary Cowan as our local councillor and the Parish Council made similar representation.
Their proposal is to remove areas BB1 and CC from the plans which are the parcels adjacent to Whitehall Drive. This of course means that half of the area will still be built on. The justification for this is that they need to build on this land in order to achieve the density requirement laid down by the council across the rest of the development, and also achieve the target of 2000 houses for the consortium part of the SDL again laid down by the council. If the council were willing to relax the density requirements slightly then perhaps parcels BB2 and K could also be preserved, but sadly it seems that the council is much more concerned to ensure the developers achieve the density requirements than preserve the amenity land used by the existing residents.
One other point that has come up, and was raised again by the Parish Council with the developers is that the land they are proposing to build on was thought to have been protected from development as it was designated as public open space to balance the previous developments on MoD land, most notably Penrose Park, however the developers are pleading ignorance of this commitment and have insisted that the land was passed to them with no restrictions on it at all. This highlights an important point, that we need to ensure that the commitment made by Crest Nicholson over BB1 and CC is properly recorded so that we're not fighting another attempt to build on the land after 2026. Firstly the letter from Crest Nicholson has no legal basis, so it is important that the commitment is reflected in their planning application. Secondly the letter makes no commitment over the long term protection of those areas, so it is important that Crest Nicholson show a real commitment to preserving the green space for current and future residents by officially designating and registering the land as a village green which will give it legal protection from future development. This is especially important considering that they are not honouring the commitments made by the MoD over that land in the past.
The council has also shared with us the tree survey prepared by Crest Nicholson for their part of the SDL. If you remember residents have been repeatedly assured by the council that all the trees on the site had been protected, sadly it seems that they are not quite as protected as residents may have assumed. The tree survey is a complex document, but the headline is that Crest Nicholson is proposing to remove or replace almost half of the existing trees. In some places trees are going to be removed to make way for houses – the trees currently in development parcel K for example. After raising a query with the council over some of the proposed removals the council officers confirmed that they did not put tree protection orders on any trees that they thought it would be likely that a developer could challenge and win. Having shown the report to a specialist who writes similar reports he has highlighted a number of errors and mistakes in the tree report, but also added that the report is quite clearly designed to make things easier for Crest Nicholson to remove the trees they want to.
As yet, the council is not totally sure when the Crest Nicholson planning application will be submitted, however you will now find that the planning application for the Marino part of the SDL has been submitted and is available online under application number O/2014/2179. Residents should be getting an official letter from the council highlighting that the application has been submitted. As yet the documents relating to the application are not available online, but as with previous planning applications there is a lot of paperwork for the staff at the council to scan in and make available. The closing date for comments on the Marino application is currently set as 20th November 2014.
Finally, progress is being made by the council parental reference group over the new school, and members of the reference group are asking for ideas about the name – if you have any suggestions over a name, please let us know and we can pass them on to the parents on the group.
Curtin & Co the professional Community Politics organisation taken on by Crest Nicholson for the past year or so to help with community engagement to produce more acceptable plans this time around have the following statement on their website:
Communities and their representatives are at the heart of planning. By listening carefully to them and understanding their issues, acceptance of proposals is greatly improved.
We'd probably agree with them on that, but I wonder how you thought the recent exhibition showed they understood your issues?
Certainly from the feedback we have received so far, the answer seems to be that they didn't seem to understand at all, and that the entire exhibition was a major disappointment.
Over the years this development has been discussed, there have been a couple of common points. Firstly the preservation of green space used by existing residents has been a major concern – right from the start AG-RAG has been in favour of a development "behind the wire" highlighting that public areas outside the boundary wire of the Garrison should remain public areas, and that the effect on existing residents should be minimised. Secondly the mitigation of the traffic effects of the new development needs to be taken seriously for all the surrounding villages.
If you take a look at the supplementary planning document adopted by Wokingham Borough Council the "behind the wire" principle is clear. Crest Nicholson helpfully include this plan on their "Story so far" panel, all of the formal playing fields along with the informal space around the top of Sheerlands Road is maintained, and there is a clearly marked buffer alongside the existing homes on Badger's Mount. The withdrawn plans from 2013 which were modified from the original design as part of the community planning workshops in January 2013 largely maintained that, with only building on one side of Sheerlands Road on the Garrison Church Car Park. These new plans however discard the green buffer behind Badger's Mount, and fill all of the informal space with houses, requiring the felling of a number of trees that are supposed to have tree protection orders on them to achieve this, and even putting houses on the access road to Gerring Road and the whole of the Badger's Mount estate. Hardly listening carefully to the local community and understanding their issues. Not surprisingly we are aware of a number of local residents who visited the exhibition and expressed pretty forcefully their opinion of the latest plans.
Looking at the other hot button issue, that of traffic mitigation, whereas the consultation exhibition for the withdrawn plans recognised the importance of this and included proposed plans for many critical junctions, there was nothing like this at the recent exhibition. We can't even comment on how good or bad their plans might be, because there was basically no detail at all, we are no clearer now as to what they are proposing as to where we were a month ago.
So what has gone wrong? Curtin & Co have been engaging with community representatives such as the parish councils and local borough councillors, but they have noticeably failed to engage with the community itself. We had a Community Planning Weekend where a number of local residents sat and worked with the master planners, producing a plan that whilst it had some issues was still something that had clearly evolved as a result of the community engagement. Nobody on the new team was involved with the previous community engagement, and rather than organise a new round of engaging with the community, this team appears to have developed the plans in isolation, the result being that the masterplan is considered by many to be worse than the withdrawn plan.
Ironically the new plan is still being sold on the basis of green space, but comparing the plans from 2013 with the new plans there is clearly less green space. The existing space around the junction of Sheerlands Road and Baird Road is entirely gone, green space around the brook is reduced, the village common is significantly reduced, houses are built closer to the balancing lake and the SANG is reduced in size. What that has been traded for is personal green space, so the density of housing is reduced by putting them on larger plots. Certainly good for making the houses to sell more attractive, but it is the existing residents who are losing their green space, and there is less public green space for the new community.
As expected the secondary school has moved back to the original location, but since Reading Football Club are holding firm on Hogwood Park, it has all the same problems with access from outside the SDL. Whilst in fifteen years once the majority of students using the school will be fed from the SDL most students will be able to walk, in the early years most students will be coming from Finchampstead and will have to come through the whole southern part of the SDL into the town centre to get to the school. The school desperately needs direct access from Park Lane, rather than requiring all of the students to come in at the same time as all of the residents are heading out to work, and sending them in via a fairly roundabout route around the industrial estate and the football club.
If you didn't get a chance to attend the exhibition, the boards are available on the Crest Nicholson Consultation Website. You'll find that the previous Arborfield Vision site has been removed, however you can look back at the presentation and commitments that the previous masterplanners and the the Defence Infrastructure Organisation made on our site here, something that is probably a rather depressing experience when you realise quite how much of the previous community engagement has been squandered, and the good will that has been lost by Curtin & Co and Crest Nicholson. Please also feedback if you haven't already using the Crest Nicholson Online Feedback Form.
As you may be aware, the catalyst for this group being formed was when Wokingham Borough Council published their SDL masterplan document for the Arborfield Garrison SDL. Whilst for everyone who lives in and around the Garrison the prospect of the Army moving out has always been on the cards, and replacement with housing the most likely possibility, pretty well everyone assumed that it would be a development of the land behind the wire, as had been shown on previous proposals. It was therefore rather a nasty surprise to find that Wokingham Borough Council had included parts of the playing fields that were, and still are well used by both the civilian and military families who live here – indeed before the inevitable Bank Holiday rain set in today there were families enjoying the open space near the tennis courts over the weekend, as there often is when it is sunny. This proposed development of "area B" served to bring home what was about to happen.
Over the intervening time we have had several assurances from various politicians over what will happen to "area B", however the key thing that Wokingham Borough Council have not done, is to remove the contentious part of area B from their own document, as a result every time a new set of consultants come along and a new masterplan is issued, the same argument over "area B" comes up again.
Last week, members of the parental reference group working with the council on plans for the new school were shown a plan indicating the location. The plan was under a confidentiality agreement at that point, but following a request from the reference group the document has now been put in the public domain and can be found on a number of the Facebook pages discussing the school, or by clicking on the image here. Aside from interest over the school location, it is worth taking a look at what is happening elsewhere. Once again Crest Nicholson have kicked out John Thompson and Partners who ran the extensive community planning weekend in 2013, and brought in the Ian Darby Partnership (Northern) based in Newcastle to master plan the site once again. As always happens, if you look at the plan, "area B" is once again marked as residential developable area, although on this plan it's areas BB1, BB2, CC and K. Granted this is labelled as the "Masterplan Diagram without Constraints", but the area is clearly marked.
If you look at it from the point of view of the developers if you ignore all the marketing fluff around garden village principles into which an area like that fits really well, the area of parkland in those parts is pretty easy to develop, certainly compared to the building demolition they'll need to undertake elsewhere on the site. If they take a chainsaw to the trees they've marked with blue dots – apparently only to mark the location of services – they can slap up a load of houses quickly and get them selling to finance the rest of the development, and stuff the existing residents. Since we're already here, the garden village principles aren't really for our benefit anyway, much better to build on the park used and enjoyed by the people who are already here in order to provide more SANG area and more open space in other parts of the development where they will be making their money.
Sadly that is the kind of short sighted view often taken by developers who are primarily interested in building and selling their houses for the maximum profit whatever the effect on the existing community, the kind of attitude that produced their previous planning application that suggested sprinkling a few traffic lights around the area would counteract the effect of thousands of extra new residents being dropped into a semi-rural area. What they miss is that the existing residents are the people who will form the basis of the new community their marketing department and the council keeps going on about. Surely if you are wanting these people to build this new community, repeatedly antagonising them by not addressing obvious traffic problems, and repeatedly proposing to build on parks used by the existing residents is exactly the opposite of what you want to be doing?
We'll see in the coming week quite whether common sense has prevailed and the developers have been realistic about the traffic effects of their development, and about retaining amenities used by the existing residents, but given this plan, we won't be surprised to find ourselves once again disappointed.
After a relatively quiet couple of weeks, over the past couple of days there have been two key announcements relating to the development.
Firstly, the Arborfield Garrison Landowners Consortium, headed up by Crest Nicholson, have announced the three dates for the exhibition of their revised proposals. These are as follows:
The first of these dates in Finchampstead is at the end of the last full week of the school holidays, whilst the other two dates in Arborfield are after the local schools have gone back. The consortium seems to have now abandoned their previous Arborfield Vision site and are instead setting up a new web site that will carry details of the proposals at www.arborfieldgarrison.co.uk which is due to go live on the day of the first exhibition.
We would urge everybody to try and attend the exhibition, and to ensure you give your feedback to the developers representatives who will be attending.
The other announcement, which came today from Wokingham Borough Council announcing that the potential site for the new school had been identified. To be fair the potential site they have identified is actually the same site that was proposed in some of the earliest layouts for the development, indeed you can go back to this posting from 2010 for an example, and which was actually revealed by the Marino Family Trust on the front cover of their Hogwood Garden Village brochure a few weeks back. The site still has all the same problems it did two years ago, when the previous group of AGLC consultants successfully argued to have it relocated to the edge of the development, the primary reason that it has moved back is that Wokingham Borough are now pushing for the school in 2016 and the site identified on the edge of the development just won't be available in time.
The fundamental problems with the site remain, the biggest of which being that, as can be seen from the plan in the Marino document it will only be accessible via the new village centre. With the Reading Football Club training ground at Hogwood Park directly behind, and a large area of SANG and the existing industrial estate adjacent, the route for students from Finchampstead will be along the new Nine Mile Ride extension into the village centre. Students from Barkham will again be coming into the development right to the centre to get to the school. It would make significantly more sense from an accessibility point of view to turn the school around and access it from the Park Lane side, but unfortunately whilst Hogwood Park is there and occupied, this isn't possible.
Whilst the schools may have broken up for the holidays, events around the development continue to move on.
Thanks to everybody for the steady stream of copies of feedback to the Marino Family Trust over their woeful exhibition. It is clear that rather than assuage any concerns about the development the lack of detail in the exhibition had much the opposite effect. There has been a good deal of press coverage with an article in both the Wokingham Times, and also an article published in the local papers over in Hampshire highlighting how Eversley residents were ignored in the limited promotion for the exhibition. It is interesting to note the disagreement between MFT and Wokingham over whether Eversley should have been included with MFT saying Wokingham asked them not to send details to addresses in Eversley, whereas Wokingham are saying that they were only asked for addresses in specific parishes.
The article that appeared in this weeks Wokingham Times, which has yet to appear online also asked Curtin and Co, the representatives of the Crest Nicholson led consortium developing the northern part of the SDL about their upcoming consultation. Disappointingly they told the paper that they are planning to mount their consultation during August at the height of the summer holidays when many people will be away, a decision that runs contrary to their supposed desire to consult as widely as possible. There are also comments from Arborfield councillor Gary Cowan highlighting concerns that the applications from the two groups must be considered together.
Much like Curtin and Co and Crest Nicholson, Wokingham Borough Council is also continuing to make key decisions during the holiday period. The agenda for the Executive Meeting this Thursday, 31st July contains a number of important issues. Firstly the new secondary school for the south comes up under item 31. The report amongst the agenda papers highlights the ambitious schedule the council has set themselves, and in the section on capital funding highlights this as a key challenge due to the school being brought forward well in advance of when the funding from developers will be available. Whilst there is now an enthusiastic parent reference group organised by the council in operation, it is fair to say that confidence amongst parents whose children fall into the critical period for secondary transfers is not high. We are aware of families moving out of the area purely because they do not believe the council will deliver, with other families that can afford to looking seriously at private education for their children because they know that their children will have no choice over which school they will go to. As a contingency we would urge Wokingham Borough Council to consider putting a fairer tie breaker in place for their four schools, perhaps based on the segmented Oakbank tie breaker, that would give parents in the southern parishes more confidence that they will have some choice over places should the council not manage to deliver a school as promised.
Also on the agenda for Thursday is designation of a combined neighbourhood plan area for Arborfield and Newland, and Barkham parish council areas. Ensuring we have a Neighbourhood Plan in place is very important as under the recent Localism Bill it provides additional funding to our local parishes from central government.
Whilst not directly related to our SDL, another interesting item is item 44, where it seems that Wokingham Borough Council is getting into the Pick Your Own Fruit and Veg business by buying Gray's Farm over in Heathlands Road. Under the plan the farm, which was on the market anyway, will remain open until the end of the 2017 season, but then will close and become part of the South Wokingham SDL which abuts the farm to both the north and east. Following closure in 2017 it will be converted into the sports hub for the South Wokingham SDL. Whilst it is certainly sad to see a popular local business go, it is perhaps not surprising as the farm would not be nearly so attractive with thousands of houses surrounding it in a few years time, and with the council buying it that at least ensures that it will remain as open space rather than being picked up by a developer.
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Players/Officials: Imran Farhat | Simon Katich | Brett Lee | Marcus North | Salman Butt | Umar Akmal | Shane Watson
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Katich chases quick return
Australia remain hopeful Simon Katich will be available for the final Test in Hobart after scans showed bruising to the bone and tendon in his right elbow. Katich, who was hit by Mohammad Aamer in Melbourne, was ruled out shortly before the toss on Sunday and will see Alex Kountouris, the team physiotherapist, again on Tuesday. "We are hopeful he will be available for selection for the next Test," Kountouris said.
Lee eyes World Twenty20
Brett Lee is also on the comeback trail following elbow surgery and is aiming for the World Twenty20 in the West Indies in April. He had the operation in November and was at the SCG planning his way back, although he is still unsure how much more his body can take. "It has been a 16-week injury with ligament damage," Lee told Nine. "There's a couple of bone spurs in there which have been taken out. I've had 12 operations now. This has probably been the worst. It has probably been the most painful. I'm pretty positive. Let's wait and see what happens." At 33, Lee has played 76 Tests and taken 310 wickets, but if he decides he wants to continue playing his future will probably centre around the limited-overs contests.
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Have Pakistan finally resolved their opening woes? Imran Farhat and Salman Butt's opening stand of 109 was their third century stand in nine Tests and they have a couple of fifty partnerships to go with it. Why they've only opened that many times over five years is anybody's guess. In Pakistan's current opening landscape that is the stuff of Hayden and Langer.
Nervy start?
Come out, give the bowler the first half hour, settle down and make hay? Not if you're Umar Akmal. The very first ball he faced from Nathan Hauritz he drove through the covers for four. Next ball was cut square for the same result. He played out one ball before coolly depositing the next two through midwicket. For good measure he square drove his next ball from Mitchell Johnson to end up with five fours from the first seven balls he faced.
Vice-captain under review
Michael Clarke briefly took over the captaincy in the middle session when Ricky Ponting was off the field and he quickly added a strange choice for a review. Shane Watson got one to cut back to Mohammad Yousuf on the way to Brad Haddin and the Australians appealed, both for the original decision and Asoka de Silva's not out. Replays showed the ball hit the front pad flap and his sweater, but was not close to the bat or the glove. Ponting returned swiftly with only one review remaining.
North heading south
After a boom start to his Test career, Marcus North is in a rut, owning five scores of 16 or less in his seven innings this summer. The confusion over his batting, and subsequent pressure on his place, has also spread to his fielding. Last year North had a couple of problems at first slip but was persevered with and developed into a comfortable choice in between Haddin and Ponting. However, he spilled Australia's main chance of the first session when he missed Farhat in the fourth over of the morning. Farhat was 11 on the way to 53.
More close calls
Haddin had a chance to run-out Farhat when the batsman had charged Watson and missed before ambling back to his crease. Had Haddin's underarm been more accurate the batsman would have been gone for 40. Nothing was going the Australians' way and Watson followed through to deliver a verbal blast to the relieved Farhat. He was fortunate again on 42 when called for a single from Butt, but Johnson was unable to force a direct hit at the striker's end from cover. Two runs later Farhat played back to Nathan Hauritz, who offered a soft appeal that was turned down, but Hawkeye showed it hitting leg.
Flying high
Shane Watson is the most athletic of the Australians and he showed his skills with an outstanding back-tracking catch at deep point to remove Faisal Iqbal. The hosts needed some inspiration and the fine take, which came with him off the ground and lunging backwards, gave them a lift. Haddin soon took off to his right to intercept Mohammad Yousuf's edge on a tough day for the home side.
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Hydrophobia xbox live game is 160 points now . anyone played it??
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TheBeastWithin posted...glassghost0 posted...Don't listen to the biased answers. Play the game for yourself and form your own opinion about it.
That would be fine with me, because I wouldn't be writing reviews for people like you, who are just going to impulse buy and enjoy every game they come across. Actually, I would say people like you are immune to reviews. Which is fine. I actually wish I had the ability to enjoy every piece of crap I came across, life would be better.
Also, nice, you got me. I actually can read, it's just that by the time I read through the posts and wrote mine, I forgot all about that. Although, next time don't phantom edit something like that in.
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How long is is this game
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glassghost0 posted...TheBeastWithin posted...glassghost0 posted...Don't listen to the biased answers. Play the game for yourself and form your own opinion about it.
I didn't impulse buy anything. I played the demo of it. I enjoyed Hydrophobia more than other games I've played. I enjoyed Hydrophobia more than Fez.
Just because you don't like something doesn't mean that other people are wasting their time on it if they enjoy it.
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How long is is this game
4-5 hours give or take.
I remember a couple months ago I asked about this game after liking (to a degree) the demo.
I left it an said I would wait for the price-drop it got periodically... well I bought it a couple of weeks ago for 400pts. Annnoying considering I haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
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You'll want a barb and hose for the MLT (based on the picture)
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You don't need a false bottom. You can use SS hose. My 12.5 gallon cooler is rectangular so I made a PVC manifold for $4. Nipple, nut, and ball valve were about $15 total. With a $45 cooler that's $64.
To keep my cost down, I used 2 calibrated plastic buckets to collect my runnings. I heated my sparge water with my one burner and pot.
I made a DIY cooler you can see in my link below, but then, you didn't want to make anything.
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Wow, thanks for the great suggestions guys. I think I missed some of the small things like a mash paddle (though I have a giant SS spoon) and the barb/hose. I already have some of the other suggestions like 14cft fermentation chamber, wort chiller, etc.
I do have to admit now I'm tempted to just build it myself and use the extra money on another keg. Thanks again and happy brewing.
Building the MLT is VERY easy and there are a ton of videos with actual part #s from select home improvement stores listed. I spent maybe $65 to build my 10g MLT. This time of year (here in NC at least) coolers are dirt cheap .
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The board of directors of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. has approved the repurchase of up to $50 million of the company's common stock, effective immediately. The company also announced it has refinanced its secured credit facilities and retired in full the $22 million outstanding balance of its term loan.
Krispy Kreme said the $50 million share repurchase program will be implemented through purchases made from time to time in either open market or private transactions, in accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission requirements. The company had approximately 66 million shares outstanding as of July 12.
Krispy Kremes' shares opened at $20.35 on July 15, up from $20.10 at the end of trading on July 12 and more than double the share price of $9.60 on Jan. 2.
"Having completed a $20 million share repurchase program last year, we view this $50 million additional repurchase authorization as a further indication of Krispy Kreme's financial strength, our outstanding free cash flow generation, and our positive outlook for the future," said James H. Morgan, chairman, president and chief executive officer. "The substantial improvements we have made to operating results and the balance sheet over the past several years make us confident we have the capital resources to both implement and potentially expand the scope of our growth plans. While we will always seek to first deploy cash to grow the business, we will complement that usage, as appropriate, with other means of increasing shareholder value. The repurchase authorization announced today reflects our desire to further enhance shareholder returns when our cash flow generation is excess to our current needs and when doing so is in the best interests of our shareholders."
Krispy Kreme previously forecast that it expects to generate adjusted net income of between $42 million and $45 million in the fiscal year ending Feb. 2, 2014. If realized, this would represent an increase of between 28% and 37% over the $32.9 million of adjusted net income earned on a 52-week basis in fiscal 2013. Cash provided by operating activities is forecast to be in the range of $63 million to $66 million. After deducting capital expenditures estimated to range from $23 million to $35 million, and $23 million of debt principal payments (including the retirement in full of the remaining $22 million balance of the company's term loan), Krispy Kreme forecasts generating free cash flow in the range of $5 million to $20 million in fiscal 2014.
As of July 12, the company's cash balance was approximately $55 million and unused borrowing capacity on its revolving credit facility was approximately $31 million. The amounts reflect the retirement of the $22 million remaining balance of the company's term loan and the refinancing of its secured credit facilities.
On July 12, Krispy Kreme refinanced its secured credit facilities, including retiring in full the $22 million balance of its term loan and increasing the size of its revolving credit commitments to $40 million from $25 million.
The refinancing and the retirement of the term loan are expected to result in a decrease in interest expense of approximately $1 million in the first 12 months following the transaction, principally reflecting the elimination of interest on the term loan, lower costs for outstanding letters of credit, and elimination of the amortization of the cost of an interest rate hedge and the amortization of deferred financing costs related to the retired term loan, Krispy Kreme said.
Additionally, Krispy Kreme said it expects to record a non-cash charge resulting from the transaction of approximately $1 million in the second quarter, consisting principally of the write-off of the deferred financing costs related to the retired term loan and the termination of a related interest rate hedge.
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I think you're under estimating how serious his health issues could be at the NHL level. We're talking about a heart issues, not a broken arm. The speed of the game is a lot faster and the conditioning of the players is a lot better. Having that hole in his heart could possibly be a big stumbling block for O'Dell. I would of ranked him a lot higher, but until he's pretty much proven he can handle the daily grind of the NHL, he'll continue to be passed by other prospects IMO. It's just too risky to assume he'll ever have an NHL career, much less a normal life. I'll definitely be paying close attention to his health this season.
I'm not underestimating anything. As I said, he is healthy and in good condition to be playing hockey. Will this issue effect him down the road? maybe, who knows. One thing that is clear is he has resumed playing, which indicates right now, today, doctors deem him a healthy enough individual to play the game, which is a huge plus. He will be monitored closely his entire career, and likely life. I have little worries about his condition until it proves something to be worried about.
As I said, it may or may not effect him down the road, I understand that. But, what I do know is as of today, he is a healthy and fit athlete playing the game of hockey, and I am choosing to rate him as just that. His skills are far superior to Machecek in my opinion, and i'll gladly rate him accordingly until he proves me wrong.
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Award recognizes construction industry customers who achieved outstanding sustainability milestones.
Waste Management Inc. (WMI), Houston, has announced the winners of its 2012 Sustainability Circle of Excellence Award, which recognizes top customers in the construction industry who achieved outstanding sustainability milestones during the planning and building phases of their projects. To be considered for this award, winners used Waste Management's Diversion and Recycling Tracking Tool (DART) to track their performance throughout the year.
DART, WMI's online portal used to follow environmental performance during construction projects, calculates the amount of waste that customers divert from the landfill, as well as the different types of materials put to reuse. Information is updated daily to track the sustainable performances of some of the nation's top builders, who can then use the information to pursue LEED certification for their projects, as well as set future green goals.
The winning companies diverted the highest total tonnage of waste from landfills to recycling facilities and include:
"This award is recognition of a shared commitment to profitable green business practices and the environment," says David Steiner, president and CEO of Waste Management. "We congratulate each company for their outstanding environmental performance and look forward to tracking these benchmarks in the future, as they represent a shared commitment to diversion, recycling and sound environmental practices."
"DART really empowers these builders to pursue aggressive diversion goals," says Jane Sumner, vice president overseeing Construction Solutions for Waste Management. "In total, the companies named for this award have diverted thousands of tons of construction waste, all of which has been tracked carefully. It's further proof that what gets measured, gets accomplished."
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Hi! I have a magento multistore with only configurables products (t-shirts with color/size in simple products).
All the combinations have a tier price for less price if you buy more than 5 or more than 100 t-shirts
Additionally I was created a customer groups called wholesaler and I was created a catalogue rule. This rule apply an 50% discount for all customers that are in wholesaler customer group.
One time my wholesaler customers are logued, can see all the prices at 50% of the value, but the tier don't appear, only apper if is not logued or if is in general customer group.
I was see the option in the rule for continue or stop, I was tried both options but still without appear.
I need that appear the tier for quantitie and with the same discount of 50% applied to them.
Maybe I was setup something wrong?
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maybe stupid question, but are you sure the tier price in product is set for all groups? if so, try to make same tier price just for your wholesale group
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yes, is assigned to all groups.
I will try to add in the tier differents groups with differents prices, but with this method I need to add manually prices to around 9000 single products (all the colour/sizes combinations).
I think that is not a bug, I think that is not programmed in magento this option yet (configurable+tier+catalogue discount)…
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I am thinking that probably the reason is this:
Produt normal price is 10â¬
Tier more than 5 = 9â¬
Tier more than 100 = 8â¬
When I apply the catalogue rule, this rule says that all the prices have 50% discount if you are logged like a wholesaler
Then the normal price is 5â¬
How 5⬠is less than the tier options, this tier options don't appear because are ignored.
I was think that this catalogue rule will be applied to all prices, included the tier options…
Any people now how I can fix this?
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One thing I can say about Sony with a touch of humility is that while we sure do create some truly outstanding and innovative products, we could use a little help in naming them.
The most recent example is the new BRAVIA Internet Video Link. In its first incarnation, this device comes in the form of a roughly $300 hardware module that clips on to the back of our 2007 line of BRAVIA high-definition televisions. It allows you to access streaming Internet videos for free from a variety of content providers right on the TV set without the need for a personal computer.
Among them are videos from AOL, Yahoo!, Crackle (the former Grouper now owned by Sony Pictures), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated and blip.tv, which was recently rated No. 1 in a PC World reader survey of the best user-generated content sites. In addition, Sony Pictures is now offering new Internet channels through the service. And in the near future, we expect many other famous and not-so-famous (yet) providers to contribute content for the service, which internally we fondly refer to as "BIVL" because the full name is such a mouthful.
Based on the selections and capabilities of the content providers, BIVL can also stream high-definition content, which I believe is an industry first.
In another touch of Sony integration, content from the Internet service can be navigated through very easily on a BRAVIA television set with Sony's Xross Media Bar (XMB) user interface, which received a Technical Emmy award and was adapted from work originally done by engineers from Sony's Playstation development team. Despite the long name, the BRAVIA Internet Video Link represents a unique, "PC free" approach – and just the beginning of one – to the whole concept of IPTV. That said, at the outset, you need to have a broadband Ethernet connection in your home where your BRAVIA TV is set up.
This clever interface lets you switch channels smoothly and quickly regardless of whether the content is coming from broadcast, cable, satellite, BIVL internet content providers or RSS sources. (Speaking of which, getting the latest RSS feed with local news – while not the sexiest – is probably one of the most used and one of my favorite BIVL services.)
But what's so cool is that if you have a flat-panel set and hang it on the wall, you don't even notice the module is there since it's so sleek and thin.
If you have one of the new flat-pannel BRAVIA LCDtelevisions you may notice that they already have two sets of slots on the back panels, so in the future you will be able to add yet another module. Within Sony, our engineers are already working on future modules that will offer a variety of services that will add value to a BRAVIA HDTV. Just imagine, for example, clip-on modules that are wireless, feature hard drives for storage and recordability, offer Blu-ray Disc capability, are powerful AV receivers, provide direct Internet download capability (sans a PC), and more. These are a few of the many possibilities, so stay tuned.
I invite you to visit one of the 40 Sony Style stores around the country or any of our retail partners who are carrying the Bravia Internet Video Link module and check it out for yourself. Hopefully, you won't let it's long name stop you from giving it a test drive. My colleagues and I would greatly welcome your feedback.