Reading that most couldn't give a sh1t, but then again lots of the BBS wouldn't mind a communist states of Europe.

If apathy is causing anybody to not sign this then just remember when one pops up unnecessarily near you that you didn't sign to oppose this whacking great thing that it seems only deserves to be there because there's loads of traffic passing through.

Btw, I was in favour a housing development on the Chaldon golf course but loads of nimbys got in the way of that. That's exactly where houses should be going. There or new towns or adding homes to towns away from London.

Remember this when you're clinging onto the luggage rack on the dangerously packed commuter train after hundreds more board at Purley.

Maybe Reigate, Banstead, Oxted, Selsdon, Bromley or anywhere there's a junction and some traffic and shops where any shopping community existed in the '70s deserve one of these. Maybe the A22 by David Gold's. Lots of traffic and traffic links there.

Looks like little has been learnt from past planning howlers. Oh well, get out and stay out and see how the graduates get on with their desires.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (01 Dec 2017 4.42pm)

That was always a non-starter, and I don't agree that it's a good place to put them anyway. They'd be better off in the Valley where there is a train station at least, and more than one bus route.

There's only one way to build affordable housing and it's by doing it as far away from London as possible, but the trouble is next to no one wants to move there.

Stop knocking them down in Purley and putting cul-de-sacs in their place instead for a start.

It's the only golf course in Caterham and the access to and from the entire site would all be through one entrance/exit. They almost always do this with new build estates and it's f***ing daft. The barracks and the other one backing on to the course for example.

Where are they going to go to school too? They're all over subscribed with the nearest one being minuscule and the second nearest is special needs only.

The one near the roundabout opposite where the Clifton pub was is a nice development. Yorke Gate doesn't have a traffic problem and neither does Hambledon Park. The barracks is a problem during busy Tesco shopping hours. Nothing to do with the homes.

The only golf course in Caterham? Every town needs a golf course? God stone, oxted, woldingham (2), sanderstead, anywhere else?

Stop knocking what down in Purley? Large houses with huge gardens? Some of those sites wouldn't get planning permission for flats because of light issues and objections.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (01 Dec 2017 7.44pm)

I meant the development over the road to the Clifton, not the flats right where the Clifton was.

I have no problem with closes or flats of 3 storeys being built along most main roads. They're spreading out of Caterham northwards, will probably happen in warlingham, and I've no issue with them anywhere on the A23. There's no need for a skyscraper in towns like Purley. It's just maximising profit and the further demise of the place whilst those developing it sip cocktails in the Indian Ocean far away from it before returning to an idyllic village somewhere.