| Topic: | Re:Re:What will Ealing be like in 2026? | |
| Posted by: | Eric Alan Leach | |
| Date/Time: | 16/10/10 20:05:00 |
| Back to the question: Ealing in 2026 will have supervised vegetable and fruit allotments in all its parks. Oil will be scarce and the oil price will be so high that flying, trucking or shipping fruit and veg by sea will be too expensive. Much of the pie in the sky home building plans will not be realised. Some might be and some new shops might also be built but both will not find buyers/renters/occupiers. These empty homes/shops areas will be crime hotspots. From having a town centre with no hotels we will have a centre with six hotels - all of them struggling to survive. Our shopping experiences will be dominated by Lidl, Tesco, Primark, H&M and new Chinese and Indian cut price retailers. The town will be peppered with many small heat and energy nuclear power plants. National, corporate, public and personal poverty will determine the actuality of big housing developments. Dickens Yard, Green Man Lane and South Acton Estates will never be completed and will never be even 'largely' occupied. But I could be wrong and life could be wonderful in Ealing in 2026. However I'll be 82 by then and if alive completely gaga. Come on - give us your predictions on Ealing in 2026. |