| Topic: | 14,000 new homes in the Uxbridge Road corridor by 2026 | |
| Posted by: | George Knox | |
| Date/Time: | 28/01/10 23:24:00 |
| Cannot recall where I have seen it but Ealing expects the population to grow by 40,000 people.I can research if needed but Eric may know. So the next question is whether that projection included all or only some of these new homes? Arthur says 14000 new homes and Eric says the LDF suggests 10000 homes. Where do the extra 4000 get built? Immediately we are into number games and we need the Council to be much more clear on what they are thinking about. It is no use hiding in in LDFs and other abstruse documents. This could usefully be brought to our attention in AR and in the Press. Arthur. I am not clear what you mean about the Consultation. Is it finished or has it started because there is nothing on the Consultations page. http://www.cartoplus.co.uk/ealing/text/sheet15.htm shows a plan but I suspect it will be superseded. This year Ealing broadly hit its housing targets, but did not on new Employment targets. As I have said last year to Cllr Millican the Council is not doing nearly enough to create employment in the Borough. If we have a huge population increase with out extra employment and the new population lives near the stations, then because the tube does not realistically have the capacity to run more trains each hour the overcrowding will become by default gradually extremely unbearable. Having trains and Tubes without much more capacity means people will want cars to go to work. Many people in Ealing already do that. But to take one example, there is considerable anger over the lack of parking space around the Avenue and Argyll Road, and no doubt that has happened partly because of the new high rise flats recently occupied. A problem has been created, and there does not seem to be a solution. That problem without a solution is going to repeat itself. I just cannot believe that in 20 years people will tolerate long distance travel, and I really do think that our Central or local planners cannot see this. They are planning on how we are in the present without using their imagination as to how work and travel will be let alone parking. Do we draw a line and say New Towns must be built post haste, or do we sit back and watch over the decades the growth of mini Bejiings? Do we care or is it just evolution? |