The City Daily Photo group of bloggers have the theme of Green for the start of March. They have a different colour each month in 2019. Green was quite easy in Abingdon …
Green is the colour of the grass in front of the remains of Barton Court at Sherwood Avenue. The remains of Barton Court are featured in Abingdon People and Places. The protective fence is also green.
The Abingdon coat of arms shield has a green background and the town’s bus shelters used to be all green until the new ones arrived coloured black. Not all of the shelters have been painted black.
Green is the colour of a lot of the public utility cabinets. In some places you can see the old and the new green together. Green is also the colour of red roof tiles when lichen and moss have taken hold.
For how others have taken pictures of green, round the world, see City Daily Photo – Theme Day Green.
Green Belt? Has anyone else spotted this info on the VWHDC news page? Seems they’re planning some modifications to the local plan? If this link doesn’t work you can find all the info on their site?
http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/LPP2
A quick read through the approval for 1200 houses on Dalton Barracks, more especially the traffic impact they would bring, the consultants assessment states OCC has already secured funding for the diamond interchange at lodge hill and this “already in place improvement before Dalton building begins” would, along with traffic lights at Marcham interchange would mitigate traffic problems !
That’s almost 3000 houses just to the north of the town all expecteed to used the peripheral road !
Oh yes, horses mouth? We have been told that the diamond interchange will be built after the first 450 houses will be built in North Abingdon, (And pigs might fly). We have had promises before that have not come about. The question has not been answered about the fact that the Clinical Commisioning Group said that G P surgeries in Abingdon will not cope with all the people from these estates wanting to sign on to their lists. I have to wait 3 to 4 weeks to see my own G P now.
Janet – as you will have seen if you went to the consultation or have been following other discussions about this, the proposed development includes a “satellite surgery” I.e an add-on to one of the existing GP practices. Proposals for that phase of the development, which also includes a school, shop(s), community centre etc are due to be published this summer. So the question has been answered, but I agree with you that we need to make sure that the promises are delivered.
Steve – Wootton and St Helen Without have produced an excellent Neighbourhood Plan which covers a lot of the issues relating to the Dalton Barracks “Garden Village” proposals – it is well worth a look if you are interested in that.
Hester I would, but history has proved all these so called consultations and draft plans are just meaningless piffel.
Morland Garden is a classic example of that and while Janet is perfectly right to raise her concerns about health and education, what about the road infrastructure? The town is gridlocked already without chucking another 3000 houses a mile from the town centre, who dreams up these idiotic ideas?
Steve – Morland Gardens is a prime example of what happens when you DONT have either a Neighbourood Plan or a Local Plan! A Neighbourhood Plan gives an opportunity for the community to have a real input into the plans for housing developments – and has statutory force. We don’t have one for Abingdon so it wont help for the N.Abingdon developments though.
Hester, and why haven’t we got a plan ?
I don’t think I am the person who you should be asking!
Come on Hester put us all out of our misery and tell us why we haven’t got a plan? You know it makes sense
I don’t think it matters whether there is/was/will be a plan in place or not.
The system we are subject to is flawed from the getgo. None of this is ‘development’, it’s just building houses for profit.
I remember a few months ago there was this thing in the news and meadya in general about “climate change” and “the environment”? I don’t know if those things are still important or not – we had to all turn our TVs off standby or something to help polar bears….? Anyway…
…one assumes that all the houses in these developments have grey water systems, ground source heat pumps, solar roofs, triple glazing and are carbon neutral?
Drayron has a Neighbourhood plan there are at least 5 developements in the village,but ha ho its a smooth ride on the aDrayton Road to Abingdon.
In today’s Herald there’s a feature on how six conservative coucilors were expelled from the SODC ruling Tory group for acting in their constituents interests by voting against the SODC draft plan which includes 28,500 new homes, so much for democracy and even less for public opinion!
Elsie, I think you will find that, like Morland Gardens, those developments had been approved before the Local Plan and Neighbourhood Plan were in place. Horses and stable doors!
I would be absolutely certain that regardless of a plan being in place that ill thought out, unsustainable, poorly designed, lacking in infrastructure, big profit, bad for the community ‘development’ would go ahead anyway.
Yes, but what does all this have to do with photography?
Blimey! The photo of Barton Court brought back memories of when I lived on that estate.
We used to play on the football pitch next to it and lost so many footballs over the fence.
There was always a story that there were secret tunnels that led to the Abbey Grounds.