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 Painter  Croydon 05 Dec 17 2.22pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
What a load of rubbish. So everyone living by any train station in an affluent area should know there's a chance of a 17 storey building going up and with 37 spaces and not concern themselves of it happening so it just goes ahead, as will others. Has nothing been learned from overcrowding and living in the sky? The long term vision should be to expand out, like I've said, on golf courses or green belt, with the odd new school going up, or build new towns, not this route which is just to make a developer rich. This development is just what Purley needs, it should be devoted to social housing. The site is currently an eyesore after Sainsburys left all those years ago. Good transport links, shopping within walking distance.
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| Stuk Top half 05 Dec 17 2.36pm |
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Originally posted by Painter
This development is just what Purley needs, it should be devoted to social housing. The site is currently an eyesore after Sainsburys left all those years ago. Good transport links, shopping within walking distance. No and hell no. You want it, you buy it.
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Pierre  Purley 05 Dec 17 2.54pm |
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Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly
Affordable housing, doesn't mean $hlt housing. The developer has played their opening gambit, but it will need to be much reduced before Permission is granted. This is not their opening gambit. These plans have been on the go for 3 years, amended 2 or 3 times already and now approved by Croydon Council. It is only the locals backed by our active councilors that have managed to get this reviewed by the Secretary of State in Jan 2018. So potentially this is it!
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 05 Dec 17 2.58pm |
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Originally posted by Painter
This development is just what Purley needs, it should be devoted to social housing. The site is currently an eyesore after Sainsburys left all those years ago. Good transport links, shopping within walking distance. Nowhere that's not a city, and Croydon is really of city size when comparing it to some cities, should have a 17 storey sky scraper with 37 spaces, especially right there with the traffic trouble it'll cause. 6-8 floors, fair enough. Just as some say the affluent areas should accept it it comes across as put up with what we have to over here. Well Croydon is really a city sized place you expect this and Purley isn't and never has been. Neither are Purley oaks, coulsdon, merstham, Caterham, Whyteleafe, Reigate, carshalton and other suburbs people live in and chose and paid to live away from buildings like this that belong in cities.
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regal_eagle  somewhere 05 Dec 17 4.31pm |
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Originally posted by Painter This development is just what Purley needs
It's 13 stories too tall. How is that so hard to understand?! Purley does not have the infrastructure for a building of this size and will be a total eyesore... And that's before you take into account the flooding down Brighton Rd and in the centre will most likely get even worse as the foundations will be going through the underground river (in case you forgot: [Link] )
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 05 Dec 17 4.35pm |
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Originally posted by regal_eagle
Have a look at the site, and tell me hand on heart you think a 17 Story building will look suited to the area.. [Link]
It'll look suited to the area when there's another 10-20 of them.
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| Stuk Top half 05 Dec 17 4.41pm |
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Originally posted by regal_eagle
It's 13 stories too tall. How is that so hard to understand?! Purley does not have the infrastructure for a building of this size and will be a total eyesore... And that's before you take into account the flooding down Brighton Rd and in the centre will most likely get even worse as the foundations will be going through the underground river (in case you forgot: [Link] )
That's the wrong Purley, it was sod all to do with the Thames. It was the river Bourne.
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| regal_eagle somewhere 05 Dec 17 4.46pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
That's the wrong Purley, it was sod all to do with the Thames. It was the river Bourne. ahh, wrong article, here's one of many regarding Purley and Caterham and another..
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pefwin  Where you have to have an English ... 05 Dec 17 4.49pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
7 isn't it? And only at the back end where it is looking over the railway, the bypass and the industrial units. The A23 end of it is only 3 or 4 stories. Which old Jet garage are you on about? Between the newly named Leaden Hill and Station Approach which ironically went to Coulsdon North gone for 40 years.it may have been Pinewood at one stage. (DEv1) The Oakwood proposed dev is here. The point is once they got the first permission it is a slippery slope. They are supposed to blend in but you can see the initial development 2 miles away at the top of Pampisford Road. Personally, I reckon rather a lot of brown envelopes in the planning office.
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| pefwin Where you have to have an English ... 05 Dec 17 4.53pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
I remember that, but there isn't a high rise development there. That was BP. if he still posts erryr would know I think his folks had a shop that end of Coulsdon.
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| Stuk Top half 05 Dec 17 5.12pm |
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Originally posted by pefwin
Between the newly named Leaden Hill and Station Approach which ironically went to Coulsdon North gone for 40 years.it may have been Pinewood at one stage. (DEv1) The Oakwood proposed dev is here. The point is once they got the first permission it is a slippery slope. They are supposed to blend in but you can see the initial development 2 miles away at the top of Pampisford Road. Personally, I reckon rather a lot of brown envelopes in the planning office. Not a lot you can do about that, it's higher then Coulsdon. It's a bit like saying you can see the Cane Hill site from the top of Marlpit Lane. I don't have a problem with the Coulsdon ones as the highest don't overshadow anyone. Purley's proposals would tower over everybody! Croydon always roll over remarkably easily for developments when Labour is in charge of the council, particularly in the south of the borough.
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Frickin Saweet  South Cronx 05 Dec 17 5.14pm |
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if they build a skyscraper in Purley it might stop them 'in-filing' in Riddlesdown, which seems to be de rigueur,
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