6000 New builds at Cookney
Not sure if there has been something about this before, had a quick look and couldn't see anything so here goes:
What the blazes is this all about??? get a nice note from the council to say a whole new community is possible going to be built. After further investigation I find out there are also plans for up to 4 primary schools, an academy and health and leisure facilities.
Can I just remind everyone of the 'who-ha' about a little Tesco's going up at the top of road!!!!
All I can say on the matter is that if 6000 new houses are going to be built, please for goodness sake dont let it be Stuarty Milne, I might one day like to move house and I'd prefer if it actually had living space you could swing a cat in. Not that cat swinging is a particualr hobby of mine.
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More detail on new builds
This topic was brought to the attention of the Community Council in October with a presentation in November.
It is all a bit hypothetical at present and difficult to see the chicken and egg process of what comes first in the 6000 houses, 4 primary schools and an academy, employment, sustainable travel, junction onto the AWPR etc.
There's more comment in todays P&J www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1020735
Watch this space; if any thing requiring input/comment comes up we will keep you informed.
Eilz
Good point Colb. Did not
Good point Colb. Did not mean to get on my high horse.
:-)
Bickering?
Wrong end of the stick I think. No bickering here, only passing genuine observation and fact. This is a valuable site to all, and, as such, only needs moderator and not general control by all.
Can we use this forum for
Can we use this forum for info, and stop the bickering?
New community - Stuarty Milne????
What's with the Stewarty Milne comment. Having looked at Barrat houses, these are the ones you couldn't swing a mouse in let alone a cat. I won't go into build quality comparisons either, but, suffice to say, I'd choose Milne any day. So, to the new community....... Who on earth is going to have the money now to a) develop and build, and b) purchase property in the " new community"???? Tesco's.. well, please build and get this on the go as soon as possible......... <[:o)
Copied this from another
Copied this from another forum,hope they dont mind.
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Published Date: 28 November 2008
PLANS to build a new town in north Kincardine with 6,000 new homes and its own high street were unveiled this week.
Lord David Southesk, representing his father the Duke of Fife and four neighbours told Portlethen and District Community Council of proposals which would transform his childhood home, the Elsick Estate.
It marked the first stage of public consultation
on plans to create a whole new settlement on the 2,200acre estate to the west of Newtonhill.
Lord Southesk told the meeting that the aim was to create a "sustainable community" and said that a new town was key to continuing the economic growth of the area, without putting pressure on existing communities and their facilities.
The new draft structure for Aberdeenshire indicates that between 6,000 and 13,500 new homes will be needed in the Portlethen to Stonehaven corridor by 2030.
Lord Southesk said: "We were approached by two separate house builders who had identified Elsick as suitable for large scale development.
"When it first came up I wasn't entirely sure. Elsick was my childhood home and I'd never really thought about it being developed but in the last 40 years the area has changed dramatically and will continue to do so.
"We face a choice of holding out against development or trying to find a solution.
"There is going to be a lot of development in this area whether we like it or not so it is a question of where it is going to go and we made the decision to offer up the land for it."
He said that what they were proposing was a long-term vision and that they were not talking about "old-style" new towns.
Lord Southesk said they did not want to create another Portlethen, acting as a dormitory to Aberdeen, but a settlement with its own shops and employment opportunities.
The scheme also includes plans for a new academy, up to four new primary schools, flexible community space, health and leisure facilities.
Elsick Estate is not included in the green belt nor is it designated an area of landscape significance but the project's planning consultant, Iain Michie, said large areas or open space and parkland would be retained.
"There are some difficult choices to be made by the community and councils within this area as to how to allocate land and we are at the start of that process," he added.
"We want to create something which would be sustainable in its own right with a high street, land for business use and employment opportunities and all the other services you would expect to find like schools and health centres."
Lord Southesk stressed that plans were still in their infancy and that the proposal was a "long-term vision" which would be dependent on the finalised Strategic Development Plan for the area, not expected until late 2009/10.[/quote]