Anyone know about Bracknell?

Munteoir

Plus they found 3 dead people and a lot of cocaine in a nearby Tesco in the past week. Good news for Bracknell!

Link,please? Can't find any info online regarding this incident last week. Genuinely curious.

Landofwood

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Awful place, a veritable concrete ghetto of cheaply built homes from the last 40 years. All with tiny floorplans and miniscule gardens backing onto a network of slumlike walkways and underpasses which are a haven for yoof underdealings and attacks on women.

White vans blight connecting roads between areas ; think 40 y/o window fitting dads with teenage sons each with two clapped out german cars sitting on those horrid BnQ brickette driveways, uggggh...

Going to Jeannette's Park? Oooohhh what a trendy name - all much the same except 33% less space, overhyped townhouses with a master bedroom not quite big enough for that coveted king size pine bed. Looks like the area desperately wants to aspire to the consumerist IT "consultant" and the fake tan beautician spouse.

Imagine all of them departing en masse onto the A329m to the oh-so lovely Twin Bridges roundabout? Nooooo, but knock yaself oot.

Jennett's park is horrid, a ghetto of the future.

Sammydog

I don't live in Bracknell but used to live in Binfield nearby (pretty much joined on now and will be when the Blue Mountain development gets built in a few years). I also worked in the town for a number of years and still go into town when I need to go to banks/post office etc as it has plenty of carparks, unlike Sandhurst.


Town centre is indeed dire - a concrete jungle of shops and flats with no atmosphere - most of it is gone now and being redeveloped but I think it will attract more shoppers once it's all finished ... for the past few years expensive rates scared off all the small shops leaving for the most part, the dreaded bookies and charity shops behind. For the moment, shopping is pretty much restricted to Princess Square and Bentalls.


Traffic in and around is busy ... A329(M) is to be avoided at all costs at rush hour but if you're looking at the Ascot side then you're probably not going to be bothered by that.


Closer to the town centre the 70s built estates are hit and miss with decent areas down to almost which street rather than a whole area so unless you know it well, probably best to avoid Crown Wood and Hanworth ... unless you know someone living there to guide you better. Great Hollands is only for the brave.


I can't comment on the quality or design of the new builds but there are a lot of them popping up all over the Bracknell/Warfield/Wokingham - the whole area is amalgamating into one big town, something that town planners had said would never happen but now has.


On the Ascot side, established areas such as Martins Heron and environs is good - decent transport links and has a more 'community' feel to it. Brockenhurst for example is a world away from developments further in to the town.


It's a bit like any built up area - there are parts of Reading I wouldn't even drive through after dark but go a mile down the road and you're in a different world - Bracknell is no different from other busy towns in that respect.