Vital Colchester link road deal has still not been reached (From Gazette)
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Vital Colchester link road deal has still not been reached
7:00pm Wednesday 19th December 2012 in News
A DEAL to build a vital link road through north Colchester has still not been reached - 12 months before the route is due to be opened.
Landowners and Essex County Council have been locked in talks to build an extension to the Northern Approach Road through the former Severalls mental health hospital.
But despite holding meetings for the last 12 months, they have failed to reach a deal.
See Thursday's Gazette for the full story
Comments(13)
greenbroker
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7:55pm Wed 19 Dec 12
By-pass
Firstsite
Football stadium
Loads of new flats
New barracks
New hospital
Filled a few potholes
That's about it really. Nothing much is really going to happen in the next 50 years, except more flats and congestion.
crazy comments
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8:28pm Wed 19 Dec 12
rhetoric
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9:29pm Wed 19 Dec 12
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What is a "mental health hospital"?
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Bring back education for journalists!
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What a tragedy that the Severalls estate had to be commercialised and built over. In an ideal world it could have been an out of town park, the grounds were lovely.
Noah4x4
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6:51am Thu 20 Dec 12
Colonel Kurtz
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8:25am Thu 20 Dec 12
TheCaptain
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8:49am Thu 20 Dec 12
Colonel Kurtz wrote:I would guess this is more down to the land owners rather than ECC who have nothing to do with building flats or granting planning permission.
Its to be expected from a Council that is only interested in building flats in the fastest growing town in the UK.
totallyfootball
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10:13am Thu 20 Dec 12
seikothrill
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11:00am Thu 20 Dec 12
What shambles all the representatives, CBC, ECC landowners etc are.
CBC should have some balls and stop all planned development in North Colchester until road infrastructure resolved
seikothrill
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11:00am Thu 20 Dec 12
What shambles all the representatives, CBC, ECC landowners etc are.
CBC should have some balls and stop all planned development in North Colchester until road infrastructure resolved
Cookie66
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12:36pm Thu 20 Dec 12
The town centre is awful, no parking unless your rich that's if you can get to a car park through the traffic!! (where is a suitable logical park and ride), bus station is awful...
Chelmsford got it right and was awarded City... well done. Great place.
And its spreading to the villages; Tiptree.. build build build, no planning for infrastructure, roads are crumbling, soon won't be able to move.....
A child could have planned better... isn't it time to learn and grow up....
TheCaptain
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2:42pm Thu 20 Dec 12
seikothrill wrote:And lose every expensive appeal. Yes that's the right thing to do.
Why does this not surprise me?
What shambles all the representatives, CBC, ECC landowners etc are.
CBC should have some balls and stop all planned development in North Colchester until road infrastructure resolved
greenbroker
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11:51pm Thu 20 Dec 12
TheCaptain wrote:TheCaptain has point regarding appeals, but the CBC adopted the same attitude with all the new 'bars' in town. Now there is a plethora of them and all their associated problems which probably cost more in the long term.
seikothrill wrote:And lose every expensive appeal. Yes that's the right thing to do.
Why does this not surprise me?
What shambles all the representatives, CBC, ECC landowners etc are.
CBC should have some balls and stop all planned development in North Colchester until road infrastructure resolved
hughie-s says...
7:13pm Wed 19 Dec 12