New Poundbury development plans unveiled (From Dorset Echo)
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New development at Poundbury unveiled
11:39am Tuesday 19th March 2013 in News
New Poundbury development plans unveiled
DEVELOPERS McCarthy & Stone have revealed the first artist’s impression of its new assisted living development in the heart of Poundbury.
The drawing illustrates how the site, located on Queen Mother Square, will look when it is completed in 2014. Construction is due to begin in September 2013 and when finished will offer 62 one and two bedroom assisted living apartments exclusively for the over 70s.
Retirees are invited to register their interest now and be among the first to receive information about the new apartments once they are released for sale.
Lorena Brown, sales and marketing director for McCarthy & Stone, comments: “Our new assisted living development will be the first of its kind in West Dorset. It will increase the options for continued home ownership in later life in a location that supports our own principle of creating communities. We hope releasing this image will help start bringing it to life for people living locally.”
McCarthy & Stone has become Britain’s leading provider of retirement apartments, having built more than 45,000 apartments in 1,000 different schemes.
Facilities will include 25,000ft of communal areas, including a shared lounge, landscaped atriums, an on-site restaurant, guest suite, laundry room and a lift. A dedicated estate manager will ensure the smooth running of the development, with staff on site 24 hours a day. There will also be a security entrance system plus 24-hour emergency call points to provide peace of mind for both residents and their families. All properties will be low maintenance and energy efficient.
Comments(9)
Dorset Boy
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12:28pm Tue 19 Mar 13
mr commonsense
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12:41pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Wellbalanced
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12:50pm Tue 19 Mar 13
mr commonsense wrote:The wide part of the road close to the garden centre and Waitrose and near to this new block of flats, which is laid out in squares and which could be mistaken for a car park - and I have seen cars parked randomly on it!
What terrible road??
Why is that that nowhere else is building on the skyline allowed, and yet this estate (for that is what it is) dominates the skyline from all points of the compass when approaching Dorchester?
Galliano
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1:33pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Wellbalanced wrote:I think that is meant to be a car park? I park there often when I visit Waitrose and the Gallery on the Square.
mr commonsense wrote:The wide part of the road close to the garden centre and Waitrose and near to this new block of flats, which is laid out in squares and which could be mistaken for a car park - and I have seen cars parked randomly on it!
What terrible road??
Why is that that nowhere else is building on the skyline allowed, and yet this estate (for that is what it is) dominates the skyline from all points of the compass when approaching Dorchester?
Wellbalanced
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4:12pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Galliano wrote:Yes, outside Waitrose and close to the garden centre is for car parking, but because of the design of the road markings, there are people who are daft enough to believe that the whole area, including the road, is meant for parking, although the passing traffic does give a bit of a clue that this is not so!
Wellbalanced wrote:I think that is meant to be a car park? I park there often when I visit Waitrose and the Gallery on the Square.mr commonsense wrote: What terrible road??The wide part of the road close to the garden centre and Waitrose and near to this new block of flats, which is laid out in squares and which could be mistaken for a car park - and I have seen cars parked randomly on it! Why is that that nowhere else is building on the skyline allowed, and yet this estate (for that is what it is) dominates the skyline from all points of the compass when approaching Dorchester?
Get a grip
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9:06pm Tue 19 Mar 13
But it is not going to stop so we have to live with it or as I do try and avoid it.
Parkstreetshufle
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9:53pm Tue 19 Mar 13
The concept of trying to hark back to a time of craftsmanship because modernism is not aesthetically pleasing enough is mind bendingly stupid.
Not that surprising given who instigated it...
JamesYoung
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10:57am Mon 25 Mar 13
Wellbalanced wrote:The area is described as "shared space". It's always been considered to be a good idea to mix pedestrians and vehicles. I have to say i have, on occasion, parked right next to the roundabout just for the fun of it - no daftness on my part, just an attempt to point out the stupidity of creating an area where nobody knows what the road markings mean.
Galliano wrote:Yes, outside Waitrose and close to the garden centre is for car parking, but because of the design of the road markings, there are people who are daft enough to believe that the whole area, including the road, is meant for parking, although the passing traffic does give a bit of a clue that this is not so!
Wellbalanced wrote:I think that is meant to be a car park? I park there often when I visit Waitrose and the Gallery on the Square.mr commonsense wrote: What terrible road??The wide part of the road close to the garden centre and Waitrose and near to this new block of flats, which is laid out in squares and which could be mistaken for a car park - and I have seen cars parked randomly on it! Why is that that nowhere else is building on the skyline allowed, and yet this estate (for that is what it is) dominates the skyline from all points of the compass when approaching Dorchester?
Trackerman says...
12:11pm Tue 19 Mar 13