The Rollason Way Parking Saga … Continues … AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

You know, this one will be quick.

Or quickish, at any rate.

For a given value of quick, of course!!

Either way, I do know that Councillor Chilvers has managed to send the Gazette an email, about the situation with the new batches of flats going up on Saint James Road.

As did Simon Brown, the Regional MD of Taylor Wimpey, the people who are planning to put the flats up.

I don’t know about you, but I’m convinced he doesn’t live around here. I’m positive about it.

Because he really does seem to be talking out of his bum.

Go read the letter … !!

But I do know that I’ve sent the Gazette a follow up email!

Here’s what I told them …

Dear Sir.

I’ve got to admit, I’m one of the residents of Rollason Way, directed affected by the proposed flats that Taylor Wimpey have planned, and I’ve got to admit, I agree. It sounds like it /will/ be in keeping with the rest of our street.

A block of flats — however nice they may be individually, which mine is — that has less than one parking space per flat. In an already clogged up area.

Which is ridiculous.

Now, I couldn’t help but notice that the figures given by Taylor Wimpey’s Regional MD, include 81 flats and 43 parking spaces. And we’re told that the revision include 71 flats, and 40 spaces. Which shows us Taylor Wimpey — much like Crest Nicholson, who built the rest of the estate — seem to do bad planning, very well. And, seemingly, bad maths.

Which is more ridiculous. And badly thought out.

What’s more, as I’ve told both Councillor Chilvers /and/ the Gazette in a previous letter, I /*still*/ can’t see how emergency vehicles can easily and safely get through the congested junction where Saint James Road meets Warley Hill.

Which is both ridiculous … and threatening, given that Crest Nicholson are building more flats, at the far end of Rollason Way.

Can I be honest?

I’m worried about the safety of myself and my neighbours. Especially since Taylor Wimpey, Crest Nicholson and Brentwood Council’s planning committee seem so ridiculously bad at their respective jobs.

Yours,

Paul Downie,

Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar

Here’s hoping they print that one.

But one thing I will add is this.

If Mr Brown is serious about coming down to visit: I can happily show him around!

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