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Carrick is a district and not a hamlet (I believe) but there are all sorts of plans to put houses up around Truro. Our builder's house is in the middle of one plan so he is thinking of moving on. (Not that he is too unhappy as he should make a packet on the land that he owns).The 26-home hamlet of Carrick is threatened with being swamped by a 1,000-house development as part of plans to build 6,600 new homes near Truro, Cornwall.
I'm in two minds over this as I live in a lovely part of the world and lots of new houses very close together and almost identical fills me with horror. However the average property price in Carrick is £270k which compared to the average salary of less than £20k means that none of the locals can afford to buy.
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The Carrick Roads estuary is, in my view, heaven in the UK. I spent a fair bit of my boyhood sailing in and around villages like St Mawes (where we lived), St Just in Roseland, Restronguet, Mylor and Flushing. It's the most beautiful spot I know.
The wife and I got engaged looking out over Carrick Roads having walked around the path from Mylor towards Restronguet. Lovely part of the world.Penners said:The Carrick Roads estuary is, in my view, heaven in the UK. I spent a fair bit of my boyhood sailing in and around villages like St Mawes (where we lived), St Just in Roseland, Restronguet, Mylor and Flushing. It's the most beautiful spot I know.
Indeed. Oldest son is at CUC (Falmouth uni college) so I have just started to get to know the area. My first question, i suppose, would be why there? Is there going to be an expansion of china clay exports? or boat building? Falmouth is likely to expand because CUC has just taken on board Dartington college (from Totnes)...moving to Falmouth! And the so-called "Maritime line" branch line from Truro to Falmouth is going to double its frequency (new passing loop being built as we speak)...so! there's the agenda...Falmouth too small to expand, build all the extras in Truro and get'em to commute by train (Penryn station is 10 mins walk from the expanding new campus, and a damned good one it is too, excellent architecture IMHO)
So there you have it...houses for tutors and support staff, and they can still catch a lovely 125 up to the City. Job application in the post my friends...what a beautiful spot 8)
So there you have it...houses for tutors and support staff, and they can still catch a lovely 125 up to the City. Job application in the post my friends...what a beautiful spot 8)
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There seem to be a few folk, including some who write in the Torygraph, who have not noticed the financial situation. Building is so last year. 2009 is the year for project cancellation and unemployment.
Oh, and in case you think it's just a temporary blip, here's a snippit from Tim Adams, writing in yesterday's Observer.
The recession will be very bad for many people, but even the darkest clouds can have silver linings.
Oh, and in case you think it's just a temporary blip, here's a snippit from Tim Adams, writing in yesterday's Observer.
One of the most amusing - if that is the word - things to emerge from the current anxiety is the persistence of those analysts, commentators and politicians who say things like: "The recession will bottom out in October 2009 and we will start to see recovery in the housing market at the beginning of 2010." Or: "Unemployment will rise by one million before it starts to fall." How, you ask yourself, having almost universally failed to call the most cataclysmic financial event of our lifetimes, do they suddenly know these things? Have they no shame? And why do they think we will believe them?
The recession will be very bad for many people, but even the darkest clouds can have silver linings.
Emmet husbandrycaliwag said:My first question, i suppose, would be why there?
Lots and lots of small businesses
Long queues of emmets
Fair bit of EU money
Did I mention the emmets?
Next time you come down, make sure you visit here: http://www.porthemmet.com/
So the criteria for building on the green belt is
Is there a single place where people don't struggle to afford homes? Is there a government definition of "affordable"?
I caught a bit of Top Gear tonight. The presenter was talking a out some car (well he would, wouldn't he) and asked himself "Is it affordable? Well it costs £14,000, so if you have, say £15,000, yes it's affordable, if you have 75p, you can't afford it."
every village and community where locals are struggling to afford homes.
Is there a single place where people don't struggle to afford homes? Is there a government definition of "affordable"?
I caught a bit of Top Gear tonight. The presenter was talking a out some car (well he would, wouldn't he) and asked himself "Is it affordable? Well it costs £14,000, so if you have, say £15,000, yes it's affordable, if you have 75p, you can't afford it."
Ah...Porthemmit. The obvious location for the next extension to the Bodmin and Wenford railway, along the old, overgrown mineral line. Especially as the nimby locals of Padstow and Wadebridge don't want the Atlantic Coast line reopened...shame. :roll: :wink:
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No, the criterion for building on the green belt is finding a bank to loan cash to a devolper. You may as well search for hen's teeth.
I totally agree Biff, by building affodable housing ( regardless their proposed location) is not going to prompt the very dubious public to snap them up, they will be more concerned about hanging for dear life on to their jobs, if they can!!. The truth is the country has been run a bit like the Madoff case ( or in his case -made-off- ) pyramid investments, take from Peter and Paul give them some of their own money back and call it "nice dividents" and carry on as long as you possibly can by convincing lots of other innocent (or stupid) Peters and Pauls to push money in the same unsuspecting black hole. My view is that S**t has not hit the fan yet. The ironic thing is that, just like the aftermath of a war, there is always a silver lining ,as suggested. In the mean time pumping money into the banking system or car manufactures, lowering of taxes etc..will have little effect in trying to induce the public to spend, most are worried as to how to pay back the extremely easily borrowed money off of their credit cards etc..
It seems to me that this is another case of running aroud like a headless chickens whilst trying to make decisions to divert the attention from where is really required. To create condtions to get people off their a***s and produce more than they spend
Ps there is a roumor that 10,000 aff.houses may be built about a mile and half from the village of Stebbing where I live, Who cares !!.
It seems to me that this is another case of running aroud like a headless chickens whilst trying to make decisions to divert the attention from where is really required. To create condtions to get people off their a***s and produce more than they spend
Ps there is a roumor that 10,000 aff.houses may be built about a mile and half from the village of Stebbing where I live, Who cares !!.
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middi said:To create condtions to get people off their a***s and produce more than they spend
Only for HMRC and the red tape from idiots upstairs to crush your will to live and cover you in Bureaucracy!!!!!!!! Why bother when we can all get a free house (I want one of the new ones in Thaxted).
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