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Post by leedsvillage on Oct 28, 2015 22:10:53 GMT
If you want a faster way around parts of Maidstone in your car, then please support the building of the Leeds-Langley relief road between the A20 near J8 of the M20 near Leeds Castle and the Sutton road at Langley. We need your help now. Please visit www.leedskent.org.uk to find our how to sign the e-petition and then register & sign-up supporting our e-petition on the Kent County Council website and vote to support us. 1. Register on the KCC e-petition webpage 2. Log-in 3. Sign petition Thank you to all Maidstone United fans. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2015 22:29:34 GMT
How many houses will be built to make this viable?
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Post by jdl on Oct 28, 2015 23:22:01 GMT
Shouldn't this be in the Leeds Village section?
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Post by stonepaperscissors on Oct 29, 2015 7:18:16 GMT
I thought this was a football, not local planning forum?
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Post by jt on Oct 29, 2015 8:19:11 GMT
Shouldn't this be in the Leeds Village section? Nope, it should be in the "sign the e-petition for a Leeds-Langley "bypass"" section |
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Post by Tstone on Oct 29, 2015 8:36:04 GMT
This should be in the NWS guide to nicest villages.
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Post by porkystone on Oct 29, 2015 8:43:47 GMT
How many houses will be built to make this viable? How many trees will be destroyed to make this possible ? |
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Post by headstone on Oct 29, 2015 9:58:40 GMT
Assuming it's the same plan that got nowhere 20 years ago due to lack of funding, nearly the whole of Abbey Wood would disappear.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2015 11:40:16 GMT
It's got to be preferable to all the traffic travelling through Leeds Village or into town along Sutton Road, past The Wheatsheaf, Sheals Crescent, College Road, Knightrider Junction etc. I live near Sheals Crescent so I know how bad it is. Fortunately I live near enough to the Gallagher to walk along the river on match days. I've signed the petition.
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Post by islandstone on Oct 29, 2015 13:03:18 GMT
It's gona happen round that area anyway. It's all part of the Langley building project. You read it hear 2nd. They spunked the previous dosh on lockmeadow instead of building a bypass. Tim will chip in with his 10 pence worth but he knows nothing. 1 sugar please Tim.
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Post by southwick1 on Oct 29, 2015 13:17:34 GMT
It would be nice to help out the nice residents of Leeds and Holingbourne after all the great help they gave us building the new stadium back in the early 90s.
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Post by leedsvillage on Oct 29, 2015 19:44:31 GMT
The Maidstone Borough Council local plan has in it to build 18,600 homes. yes that's right. and with ave 2 cars per house that's an extra c.37,000 cars in maidstone over next 15 years. if we don't get the roads we will all be gridlocked. hence the request for help for all of us to get relief roads. hope that helps.
thanks again.
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Post by stainese on Oct 29, 2015 20:03:11 GMT
Assuming it's the same plan that got nowhere 20 years ago due to lack of funding, nearly the whole of Abbey Wood would disappear. Alas the Abbey Wood that would disappear is not the one in South London. |
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Post by jdl on Oct 30, 2015 1:22:41 GMT
Talking of bypasses - I was at the ground tonight (buying my supporters' club membership, as you ask), and chancing my life on the roundabout in the rush-hour reminded me why that's there.
No, they didn't build it just to give easy access to the stadium, or to Chav Towers, it was actually built as part of the intended 'third bridge', which was going to cross the river roughly where the ground is now, cut across what is now Whatman Park, bridge the Medway Valley line, skirt the girls' grammar (see what I did there...), bridge the main line, and take over Leafy Lane, on it's way to the Queens Road junction with the A20.
It would have saved a lot of time and hassle for anyone from the North and East of town needing to get to the A20 (or even the A26, if they'd improved Queens Road at the same time), but with two railway bridges and a river bridge, it would also have cost a fortune - possibly one of the most expensive roads, per kilometre, ever built outside the big cities. In the end, they didn't build it, but the last two houses at the MGGS end of Buckland Road, which would have had to be knocked down, were compulsorily purchased and stood empty for years.
An 'intersting' scheme from our point of view, though - had it been built, it would have actually linked the old and new MUFC sites together - not only preventing the Gallagher from ever being built, but also taking a slice out of the old ground. Funny to think that, if we were still at London Road, you would have been able to walk directly to the ground on the new road, crossing the site of the (never built) Gallagher on the way.
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Post by daveu on Oct 30, 2015 8:14:37 GMT
Talking of bypasses - I was at the ground tonight (buying my supporters' club membership, as you ask), and chancing my life on the roundabout in the rush-hour reminded me why that's there. No, they didn't build it just to give easy access to the stadium, or to Chav Towers, it was actually built as part of the intended 'third bridge', which was going to cross the river roughly where the ground is now, cut across what is now Whatman Park, bridge the Medway Valley line, skirt the girls' grammar (see what I did there...), bridge the main line, and take over Leafy Lane, on it's way to the Queens Road junction with the A20. It would have saved a lot of time and hassle for anyone from the North and East of town needing to get to the A20 (or even the A26, if they'd improved Queens Road at the same time), but with two railway bridges and a river bridge, it would also have cost a fortune - possibly one of the most expensive roads, per kilometre, ever built outside the big cities. In the end, they didn't build it, but the last two houses at the MGGS end of Buckland Road, which would have had to be knocked down, were compulsorily purchased and stood empty for years. An 'intersting' scheme from our point of view, though - had it been built, it would have actually linked the old and new MUFC sites together - not only preventing the Gallagher from ever being built, but also taking a slice out of the old ground. Funny to think that, if we were still at London Road, you would have been able to walk directly to the ground on the new road, crossing the site of the (never built) Gallagher on the way. Not the first river crossing project never to come to fruition. The reason Grace Avenue is dualled is because it was originally intended to be part of a Maidstone ring road, crossing the river to link Allington with where Ringlestone is now. This was back in the 1920s, and there have been a few attempts to revive the scheme over the years, but with the development of Ringlestone and the Poplar Grove area it is no longer possible. |
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