Stroud - ignoring public trasport, or going green??

[whole diary]

[grahame]

The notes I have about Stonehouse from the reminder come from the minutes of the previous branch meeting - on 7th September.  They refer to the Stroud District Council Housing Development Plan which "made almost no reference to rail and appeared to favour housing at locations which were difficult to serve by public transport".  ...

Yet from the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page)

Plans to build 3,900 homes, a secondary school and a new railway station, in two "garden villages", have been unveiled in Stroud.

Stroud District Council has published its revised local plan which is to be sent out for public feedback.

The council said every house built would have to be carbon neutral.

The authority said it was under pressure from the government to find land for 12,800 homes. It described that as a "significant challenge".

The new station in Sharpness will allow services to Cam and Gloucester.

If approved, there will be a village with 2,400 homes and a secondary school.

A second garden village is planned for Wisloe.

The two 'stories' seem to be the opposite of one another ....

[Bmblbzzz]

SDC might be supportive of, maybe actively so, a Sharpness station, but since when was it in the gift of local councils to decide "let's build a new station"?

[ellendune]

Of course if they made the station a planning condition then no station no houses. 

[Noggin]

Of course if they made the station a planning condition then no station no houses. 

Planning for Thames Valley Park east of Reading I believe was contingent on the developer paying for a station on the GWML^▸ (Great Western Main Line) to which they contributed heavily. Of course it was immediately consigned to the 'too hard/too expensive to do' list, and I think after 10 years the developer got their money back with interest :-)