Up and coming Town/Cities in the UK??

humptydumptybits

tori.k wrote: »

Nansledan is just a huge 540 acre estate extension to Newquay Duchy land wainshomes built.
Its cleverly spun "walkable neighbourhoods for less car dependance" means 35 homes per acre of land there is a new academy school being built in Newquay as they already have a shortage of placements but no doctors hospitals or road infrastructure in place. Cornwall is building houses faster then anywhere in the UK, 47500 are being built over the next 16 years and we are still short on the amount that the Government wants to build.

Never heard of that one, I looked it up and the one I meant was Poundbury in Dorset.


I suddenly realised I'd been there but didn't even know it, it is on the edge of Dorchester and we were visiting someone and got lost. From what I can remember it looked OK.

GaleSF63

humptydumptybits wrote: »

Never heard of that one, I looked it up and the one I meant was Poundbury in Dorset.


I suddenly realised I'd been there but didn't even know it, it is on the edge of Dorchester and we were visiting someone and got lost. From what I can remember it looked OK.

I wish Google Street View showed what time of day they surveyed. I've just looked at Poundbury and saw 4 people - (all near Waitrose which was open so not 5 in the morning); one moving van and a bus. The place looks completely lifeless!

tori.k

Linton wrote: »

https://www.scambs.gov.uk/northstowe-overview

Has anything other than housing actually been built in the area, or is it the usual !!! round face of building the housing first then thinking that the infrastructure will follow.
I believe there are around 8 sites that have been identified to build new towns I didn't know they have broken ground on any of them.
There was a Plan in place for a new one just outside of wadebridge in Cornwall aptly named New town, but the idea seems to have died.

humptydumptybits

GaleSF63 wrote: »

I wish Google Street View showed what time of day they surveyed. I've just looked at Poundbury and saw 4 people - (all near Waitrose which was open so not 5 in the morning); one moving van and a bus. The place looks completely lifeless!

I think it was a Sunday afternoon when we drove through, bit fraught as husband not good when directions go wrong! I can't remember how many people were about but I do remember thinking it looked nice. It is a few years back so probably was smaller than it is now.

Davesnave

GaleSF63 wrote: »

I wish Google Street View showed what time of day they surveyed. I've just looked at Poundbury and saw 4 people - (all near Waitrose which was open so not 5 in the morning); one moving van and a bus. The place looks completely lifeless!

Given the prices in Poundbury, it'll be older people who buy a lot of the property there. Hardly 'up & coming;' more like "arrived and soon moving-on."


That said, I've twice managed to drive through my little local town in daytime and seen not one living soul.

humptydumptybits

My town always seems busy despite lots of shops having closed. It is a seaside town and I keep thinking it will quiet down at the end of the season but seems as busy as it was in August. It usually does go quiet in January/February before all the businesses start getting ready for the Easter influx. At the moment it is the "Tinsel and Turkey" coach parties. Pensioners rampaging everywhere! Could barely get a seat in my favourite cafe on Monday.

lincroft1710

tori.k wrote: »

No new towns have been built since the 70's, regeneration has just become housing with no infrastructure so think its a hard call to say anywhere is up & coming

Cambourne.

No not Camborrne in Cornwall, but another new small town 9 miles from Cambridge, started in 1998 with an infrastructure. Current population around 9,000. The first new small town was Bar Hill, 4 miles from Cambridge, again with infrastructure and the original plan completed in 1989. Current population around 5,000.

tori.k

I stand corrected then I thought Milton Kenyes was the last town to be built

trailingspouse

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That had me doing a quick google of towns in the area I'm living in now to check Costa coffeeshops there are. Not a fact I'm immediately familiar with - as I don't like them personally. Me - I like Coffee#1 and individual (but modern) coffee shops.

Result was that the difference between towns with one or more Costa shops and those without any boils down to having a population of 15,000 or more people. So I'd say it's size of population that makes the difference - as I wouldn't describe any of the towns with a Costa here as "up and coming" - just a "town of 15k or more people".

I know there was a figure I saw quoted once as the "size at which a place has a reasonable amount of facilities" and I seem to recall the figure was 15k population upward.

Well, it's had more than 15,000 for a while... But it's only just got a Costa. And a Subway. And M&S Food, and Sainsbury's, and Aldi, and (soon) Lidl. So, yes, I think it's on the up.

lincroft1710

tori.k wrote: »

I stand corrected then I thought Milton Kenyes was the last town to be built

The City of Milton Keynes is still being built! Loads of new housing under construction and the shopping centre has very recently been considerably extended.