How do Planning guys think - uncommon sense

SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Same in our little town...hundreds of homes and a leisure and retail centre (inc a cinema) to be built slap bang in the middle of a town that has a literally medieval road layout.
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Are you talking about Farnham Hogan? It does need something, as that part of town is very daggy but you just hope they come up with a sensible plan for the road system & parking (I'm not holding out a lot of hope though - it's taken them 10 years to get to this stage)
 
I've had quite a few holidays in the S.of France, off season, I'm not minted :D. Lots of medieval towns and nearly all have huge underground car parks. Genius idea. Swallows all the cars, mostly out of sight. You may have 1 or two layers above ground but most are under. Keeps your car cooler, keeps the integrity of the town still. Italy is very similar. We need to think a little more like this.
 
Patster1969 said:
Wouldn't be so bad if the public transport system (a) worked and (b) was sensibly priced - unfortunately, neither are right. Too many people high up are taking backhanders and kickbacks to push these plans through without a thought of what will happen - I wager none of the decision makers even visits the cities/towns, let alone live in them, so what do they care about the poor sods that live there.
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Works remarkably well in London so long as you don’t travel in rush hours; outside of those it’s fine and the Oyster system does make it reasonably priced against the cost of car parking.
 
Dando said:
one of my clients is about to start construction on a 35 storey residential tower with 325 apartments. the number of parking spaces is 40! given its location there isn't going to be any room on the roads for the residents to park either
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Seems to me that whoever designed the tower didn't think it through properly
 
Blue in Munich said:
Works remarkably well in London so long as you don’t travel in rush hours; outside of those it’s fine and the Oyster system does make it reasonably priced against the cost of car parking.
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Totally agree BIM - unfortunately, the majority of my public transport travel is rush hour travel up to London for work from Farnborough, so outside Oyster Card limits. If ever I use the train outside rush hour (late meeting), it's usually pretty good, although not cheap still
 
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We are about 20 years behind need with infrastructure.

Calgary is a great example of a city that planned 30 years ahead and is reaping benefits.
 
Blue in Munich said:
Works remarkably well in London so long as you don’t travel in rush hours; outside of those it’s fine and the Oyster system does make it reasonably priced against the cost of car parking.
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Patster1969 said:
Totally agree BIM - unfortunately, the majority of my public transport travel is rush hour travel up to London for work from Farnborough, so outside Oyster Card limits. If ever I use the train outside rush hour (late meeting), it's usually pretty good, although not cheap still
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I used to work in the big smoke, so had another mortgage for my train ticket. We are looking to move all staff to just outside the M25 but parking issues mean we will have to keep a 'city office'. I am glad to know that our misery is not isolated. What bothers me is the lack of common sense on parking density in the absence of public transport infrastructure, Also given that we are in the midst of a industrial estate surrounded by corrugated sheeted warehouses with no such nonsense of being overlooked or stealing light.
 
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