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4 The Link Magazine • December 2000
Car park nightmare at Wal-Mart
By Christmas 2001 Swindon could have one of the largest shops in Britain. Outline planning permission
was granted to Asda-Walmart on 30 October to build a 150,000 square feet supercentre at the North
Swindon district centre.
And in 12 months time centre car parking is
SOLUTION the roads leading to it based on a strategy that
could be completely car use will be reduced
Maintenance free
clogged by drivers want- by twenty per cent.
UPVC fascia boards ing to get at the bargains Therefore, whilst the
cladding & guttering on offer, even though the outline permission was
new Northern Orbital given for the massive
Expertly fitted at DIY prices
Road (NOR) is being built shopping provision
F11.1:1: SURVEY to by-pass Haydon Wick. nearly ten years ago,
There will be a further new planning guide-
NO DEPOSIT 210,000 square feet of re- lines means that there
tail space for other high street Looking north over a model of the dis- will be twenty per centre fewer car
Work it out for yourself
names, restaurants and cafes. A trict centre. Haydon End Lane is in parking spaces - 1,900 will be pro-
20' fascia board fitted £ 60 garden centre, private fitness club, the foreground, Lady Lane on the right, vided.
20' fascia & gutter fitted £135 banks, building societies and pet- with a new bus route built through the Swindon's planning committee
20' fascia. soffit & gutter £205 rol station will also be built. centre of the shopping area granted permission to proceed
20' fascia & soffit £130 Space for a library and a youth subject to a few amendments to
(prices correct at time of publication) centre to be run by Swindon Coun- of the private car owner. reduce noise and improve access,
cil will be provided, and there will However Government planning Asda-Walmart plan to open for
be a health centre. policy has changed radically and Christmas 2001.
By comparison the newly ex- car parking provision is now re- However before construction
panded Tesco on Ocotal Way is stricted to encourage use of public can start Asda-Walmart has to en-
82,000 square feet; the Greenbridge transport. A central feature of the ter into a legal agreement with
S retail park is about 360,000. North Swindon centre is a bus Swindon Council to operate a
In last month's Link Jean Saun- route through the middle. 'green travel plan' so that its staff
ders of the Swindon Friends of the The design of the NOR, housing will have to leave their cars behind
For a free quote Earth explained that the district layouts in Haydon 3 and district and travel by bus.
centre is so large because it was
given outline planning permission Plans for North houses on show
as part of the northern expansion Proposals for the next stage of the North Swindon development were
proposals in the early 1990s. At
e-mail: [email protected] displayed for public comment between 13 and 17 November before
the time there were fewer restric-
tions on out of town development they are put to Swindon Council's planning committee in January.
and nothing was to get in the way

A great deal for December

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Any STUFFED
Swindon planning officers Viviene O'Connell and Carol Bristow show the
CRUST pizza, plans for Haydon 3 to Robert and Doreen Chapman of Windflower Road,
portion of Haydon Wick
garlic bread The area to the north of the the development area around the
Northern Orbital Road (NOR) will village centre, adjacent to the sec-
and 1.5 litre
be called Oakhurst and includes ondary school site. Swindon plan-
bottle Pepsi the site for the North Swindon sec- ners hope that both will be com-
ondary school, due to open in 2003 pleted at the same time.
( Offer only valid for Stuffed Crust pizza. Excludes 'Create Your Own' pizza. Not applicable to dine-in.
No cash alternative. Full terms and conditions available. Valid to 14/01/01) or 2004. The plans can be seen at Swin-
The area will feature strong plan- don Council's Premier House of-
ning characteristics, moving away fice on Station Road until Christ-
from the suburban appearance of mas, but comments are required
many parts of Swindon with ap- by 8 December.
proximately 14 dwellings per acre. Plans for the village of Redhouse,
An 'urban core' around a village to the south of the NOR will be put
centre will have three and four on display in the Spring and will
floor townhouses with a density of be considered by the planning com-
twenty per acre. mittee later in the year. However
There will be lower densities in
Call 01793 876212 a formal area and a rural area, next house building to the north and
south of the road will take place at
or pop in and see a manager to a site of special scientific interest. the same time.
Building work will start in the • North secondary school parents
middle of next year at the centre of consultation. Page 44.