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topkit
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I agree Bob we have no idea really how many people are here under the radar, but those charts give us a rough idea on population, its all very well doing the capta per so many killometers or miles but still does not give us the full story as its an average across our small island, It does not take into account the South East corner and other parts of the UK that are vastly over populated and having green belt built on at a frightning rate, This is unsustainable our Green belt and the Nature that lives within it is something that we will never get back and something that I am very passionate about. There is no infastructure being put in place to cope with all of the extra people and their vehicles it is very serious situation that is begining to come to a head especially in Kent.
Bob
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Its getting bad were I live with hundreds of new houses being built and hundreds more on new sites been approved .We are the furthest away from main hosptal for a town of our size in the country about 30 miles of country roads and we only got 2 fulltime doctors when we use to have at least 6 and its being sold as a retriement area Now when Sizewell C gets started its about 8 miles away with all the extra workers and familys and traffic that will bring it will be chaotic. There has been no money sent on the infarstruture in my area for years and you never hear any local accents now.
Furniss
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Thats why I disappeared into the french countryside nearly 2 decades ago - getting busier than before round here but we still got plenty of room to breathe - I used to work round Harrogate when I lived in the u.k and it was a proper pita to get across town .... god knows what its like now 
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Bob
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We can our immigrants has a london accent and they say they havv been pushed ouut of London
Lancs Lad
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I can confirm Harrogate pre covid was a town to avoid! And like everywhere else houses are popping up along the A59Thats why I disappeared into the french countryside nearly 2 decades ago - getting busier than before round here but we still got plenty of room to breathe - I used to work round Harrogate when I lived in the u.k and it was a proper pita to get across town .... god knows what its like now
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Had Serge, me genny mate here this afters for a cuppa - servicing a genny 2 miles away - tells me that there are in excess of 400 new houses going up in Ross - or to be more precise, on a site which falls outside of the existing town limits ... town about the same size as Abergavenny was 10 years ago with circa 11.5k pop. -- Aber now closer to 14.5k with all the hundreds of houses built - again outside the limits (which get moved regularly). a 25% increase in ten years is some jump and there's sod all there in the way of employment, much like Ross.
read some one's post (IIRC) recently about UK pop. being 67m, with supermarkets estimating it at closer to 80m based on sales ... WTF is it all gonna stop .... when them on the 'fringes' are falling into the sea ???????
Furniss
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Yeah I heard they were building homes on the right leaving town up skippy road - on holmes (?) farm or slightly up.I can confirm Harrogate pre covid was a town to avoid! And like everywhere else houses are popping up along the A59
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Lancs Lad
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New roundabout there now...all the way up yes.most towns round here are getting bombarded. Some of the sh*te they putting up is unbelievable..how they ever get planning only a brown envelope will know. They cracking in with a new junction on the M55 here and we thought at first that's handy...etc...then dawns on us why...10k new houses
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
ten thousand FFSNew roundabout there now...all the way up yes.most towns round here are getting bombarded. Some of the sh*te they putting up is unbelievable..how they ever get planning only a brown envelope will know. They cracking in with a new junction on the M55 here and we thought at first that's handy...etc...then dawns on us why...10k new houses
...WTF are they all going to do and HTF are they all going to charge their new leccy chariots
Lancs Lad
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One day when I'm bored I'll try and dig out satellite photos etc and try and compare the area over the last few years. It's utterly crackers.
Must be a site you can "rewind Google satellite"
Must be a site you can "rewind Google satellite"
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
yes you can go back on the datelines on Google Earth .... but only in street viewOne day when I'm bored I'll try and dig out satellite photos etc and try and compare the area over the last few years. It's utterly crackers.
Must be a site you can "rewind Google satellite"
me stood outside my yard in 2008, wondering WTF the car with the mast on the roof was doing
2016
same view now
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Jimoz
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You can rewind Google earth satellite images back to around the 90s some areas have better dates than others. You just need to download Google pro on your "puter" as druid says. Very handy when looking into property. I've been caught a few times on Google streetview last time I struck a pose but that already been overwritten and was only 2 years ago. How do you rewind street view?
Lancs Lad
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Interesting..
will take a look.In street view think there's normally a link in one corner for previous years.
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Jimoz
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Furniss
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Cool .... does it work for brexit 
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Antony Gormley to become German citizen due to ‘tragedy’ of Brexit
Acclaimed sculptor calls leaving the EU ‘a practical disaster’ and a ‘betrayal’ as major retrospective opens
they'd best **** him off A.S.A.P. and put him on the banned list, from ever coming back .... tw*t
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6feetdown
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There is no plan to stop!Had Serge, me genny mate here this afters for a cuppa - servicing a genny 2 miles away - tells me that there are in excess of 400 new houses going up in Ross - or to be more precise, on a site which falls outside of the existing town limits ... town about the same size as Abergavenny was 10 years ago with circa 11.5k pop. -- Aber now closer to 14.5k with all the hundreds of houses built - again outside the limits (which get moved regularly). a 25% increase in ten years is some jump and there's sod all there in the way of employment, much like Ross.
read some one's post (IIRC) recently about UK pop. being 67m, with supermarkets estimating it at closer to 80m based on sales ... WTF is it all gonna stop .... when them on the 'fringes' are falling into the sea ???????
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
@Lancs Lad ... just seen the date you reacted to this post last year ..... remarkable Maz'd react today!!!!!yes you can go back on the datelines on Google Earth .... but only in street view
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