Waterlooville is struggling to survive as a retail and business area, but it is good to see three shops openning, two in Waterlooville centre and one opposite Hambledon Parade.
The two in Waterlooville are food/cafe units. One is a bakery/cafe selling Cornish pasties, cakes and drinks, the other is still being kitted out, but it looks like it will be a Pizza cafe of some sort.
Meanwhile, at Hambledon Parade the empty shops under the new Wellington Park flats appears to be acquiring a Premier convenience store. However given there are two existing convenience stores (Mace and McColls) in Hambledon Parade itself, it looks like something has got to 'give' and someone is going to lose out.
The other issue of course is that we have plenty of cafes and food stores already!
Oh and charity shops.
I'll have pictures and other details later.
Showing posts with label Winchester City Council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winchester City Council. Show all posts
Friday, February 16
Saturday, March 25
Exploring Berewood and Wellington Park
A few photos I took during my recent exploration of the new housing developments.
Some mature trees have been left alone. The new school is in the background.
Looking towards Waterlooville through the Berewood Estate. St Georges church clock tower can be seen in the distance.
More homes on the Berewood estate. The drainage systems are found throughout the estate. Yep, the joys of moronic British 'political' boundaries means that these Waterlooville homes are in the boundaries of Winchester City Council 21 miles away, as opposed to Havant Borough Council 5.4 miles away.
Paths and roads have been created joining different parts of the developing areas. Many of the roads are currently blocked off until the development work is completed.
Another drainage system, new homes in the distance.
There is a bridge that connects Berewood with Wellington Park. Like many of the roads it is blocked off, although it is open to cyclists and pedestrians. The wood crash barrier is a nice feature and gets thumbs up here! Why can't all crash barriers look like this!
The stream as seen from the bridge.
Not all the Wellington Park homes look ugly brick boxes. These are boxes, but they have wood cladding. Why can't the whole estate look like this?
Some mature trees have been left alone. The new school is in the background.
Looking towards Waterlooville through the Berewood Estate. St Georges church clock tower can be seen in the distance.
More homes on the Berewood estate. The drainage systems are found throughout the estate. Yep, the joys of moronic British 'political' boundaries means that these Waterlooville homes are in the boundaries of Winchester City Council 21 miles away, as opposed to Havant Borough Council 5.4 miles away.
Paths and roads have been created joining different parts of the developing areas. Many of the roads are currently blocked off until the development work is completed.
Another drainage system, new homes in the distance.
There is a bridge that connects Berewood with Wellington Park. Like many of the roads it is blocked off, although it is open to cyclists and pedestrians. The wood crash barrier is a nice feature and gets thumbs up here! Why can't all crash barriers look like this!
The stream as seen from the bridge.
Not all the Wellington Park homes look ugly brick boxes. These are boxes, but they have wood cladding. Why can't the whole estate look like this?
Saturday, November 5
Winchester City Council and McDonalds team up at Waterlooville
Now you see them (trees)...
Now you don't...
The developers original plan for the ex BAE site at Waterlooville resulted in numerous trees being retained. In fact contractors spent a lot of time making sure some trees were retained. But the company that make a lot of claims about their new found environmental husbandary after years of environmental abuse (remember the McLibel case?) has now walked onto the site and appear to have demanded the saved trees be felled so that we can all see their new drive in diabetes and obesity outlet. All the claims made by McDonalds appear to be hypocritical when they are happy to chop down a few trees and encourage people to drive (adding to carbon emissions) for a meal that is only worth a pound or two.
Yep, Winchester Council make a lot of effort to protect their precious pompous city but poop everywhere else.
The developers original plan for the ex BAE site at Waterlooville resulted in numerous trees being retained. In fact contractors spent a lot of time making sure some trees were retained. But the company that make a lot of claims about their new found environmental husbandary after years of environmental abuse (remember the McLibel case?) has now walked onto the site and appear to have demanded the saved trees be felled so that we can all see their new drive in diabetes and obesity outlet. All the claims made by McDonalds appear to be hypocritical when they are happy to chop down a few trees and encourage people to drive (adding to carbon emissions) for a meal that is only worth a pound or two.Yep, Winchester Council make a lot of effort to protect their precious pompous city but poop everywhere else.
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