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Land at Kingston Farm – PROJECT LAUNCH EVENT
Friday 26 March, 2010 – 1.30pm to 8pm
St Margaret’s Hall, Bradford on Avon
We have an opportunity to release strategic land at Kingston Farm to create a mixed-use development comprising of housing, employment, community and amenity uses. Therefore you are cordially invited to join our project team to share your views on and aspirations for the future of Bradford on Avon.
With input from members of the public, other key stakeholders and our experienced urban design and development team, this strategic site will be an exemplar, sustainable extension to Bradford’s community. The focus of the launch event is not to present actual proposals, but rather to seek your views at the outset, so that your suggestions can inform and shape the design development process.
We look forward to seeing you there. Sarita Bansal, Community Engagement Team
Enquiries: sarita(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)landatkingstonfarm.co.uk www.landatkingstonfarm.co.uk
(Contributed by: Sarita Bansal, Community Engagement Team)
Where is Kingston Farm? Who are these people? What are they offering? What do they want? Am I naive?
Kurt: good question. I’m not 100% certain, but I think it’s related to the stretch of land to the east of the Kingston Mills site, north of the river.
I’m hoping to make it along to the launch event on Friday, and post something on this site as soon as possible afterwards to clarify exactly what’s being proposed.
What with the Linden development and now Kingston Farm, do we have the health care facilities and schools to accommodate all these new people coming to live in Bradford on Avon.
Health care in particular seems stretched as it is. Do the developers talk to the Primary Care Trust and Councils?
Just to echo; nay, amplify Kurt’s feelings! Definitely dropping in to relieve perplexity. Jim Lynch
!! How can any development be called sustainable when it will inevitably push even more traffic onto our already clogged roads?
Leaflet arrived yesterday (23rd) giving only two days notice of the neeting. Another way of burying bad news??
Leaving aside the issue of this poorly publicised meeting about a site most residents I know could not identify, the fact is that this town has yet to absorb the effects of the new Kingston Mill development, without yet providing any relief for town centre congestion and danger.
If this development is allowed, surely the golf course development may not then be refused (only recently this developer opposed their plan).
Surely no-one should be planning anything now until a RELIEF ROAD
becomes a possibility. With this principle in place it would soon have to become a reality.
Expand the town, but look after those who don’t want to come through daily as well as those of us who live here and do.
*****Incidentally where can the completed questionnaires go ?
I could not make the meeting, I have traced them back to a renewable energy firm called Novera Energy PLC, they have three sites in the local area which are gas landfill but they seem to be more upfront about wind farms. Google “Novera Energy PLC and their main website will come up with the name of the community rep on it who fronted the project launch event (sic) . Kurt is right “What do they want?” Public support for their plans I would guess.
I really canot understand why people who live in such a beautiful town as Bradford on Avon want it to join up with Trowbrige, or ineed soon Westbury or Bath? They must be mad or have no sense at all of an historic community?
If this site has an element of commercial and industrial development including an expansion of the Moulton cycle business then this can not be too soon for Bradford. How long has it been since this town has thought hard about the provision of new jobs and securing existing jobs particularly for young people. There is more to consider than just footbridges, housing and supermarkets. By including employment this is far more sustainable than any other development in the recent history of this great town. Perhaps if we think about the background and history of the ownership of this land then the motivation for this might not be purely financial as would usually be the case.