West Carclaze Garden Village

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6 ай бұрын

Built as one of England's 14 new garden villages, West Carclaze was billed as a 21st century lakeside community based the best of traditional values, with health and sustainability at its core.
Developers claimed the home designs will help bring down the owner's energy costs and incorporate solar panels and air source heat pumps as well as being well insulated to ensure that they are more eco-friendly.
But seven years later, with snow on the ground and bulldozers still rumbling past their properties, the handful of residents who have moved into the old china clay quarry site near St Austell in Cornwall are not happy.
West Carclaze will eventually have 1,500 homes costing from £575,000 for a five-bedroom detached lakeside house to £187,000 for a two-bedroom apartment. The first phase of houses has been built with building works set togo on for another 10 years.
It was claimed it will open up many more footpaths and cycleways and there are also plans for leisure facilities, bars and restaurants.

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@VTOmanifan 6 ай бұрын

When I first saw this village being built I wondered why anyone would want a house here. 'Lakeside'?? Very deep and dangerous open clay pits. I wonder how long before someone drowns here? Looks like a batch of Lego Houses, just scattered on a barren waste land, which, of course, it is! Cornwall Council Planners obviously never visited the site as often as they ought to have done. Although the houses are built on concrete rafts, that won't stop the ground underneath from moving. Watch out for the 'settlement cracks'! Thanks for the update. Geoff

@fredflintstone1024 6 ай бұрын

That’s why the insurance companies are kicking off because of the fact that they are built the way they are on concrete rafts and the ground is susceptible to movement as it’s brought in foundations not original. Plus the fact that the price tags of the various house designs are not within anybodies means of getting a mortgage, get real the average wage down here is nothing like the 35k the chancellor was talking about helping with his cut to national insurance are these people in whitehall even in the same country as the rest of us this far west ?? lol

@sallyhook798 6 ай бұрын

Little boxes, little boxes. Little boxes made of ticky tacky.

@Peranaworthal 6 ай бұрын

£330 k..? For a tiny box? Or is the council buying them at that price for boat people? Construction might be untreated timber, tried that in New Zealand about 20 years ago, lasted 3 years before balconies started falling of into the street.

@k9wazere 6 ай бұрын

Where's the "garden" in this "garden village". I know it's marketing tripe, but really it's just endless tiny concrete boxes squeezed together, with barely an inch of green anywhere. Not fooling anybody. Might as well call it a "tropical beachfront paradise village," which would be equally true.

@fredflintstone1024 6 ай бұрын

I know exactly what you mean, just looking at the sales and marketing literature, i thought at the time what a load of codswallop, portraying that there is a nice lakeside feel to the place with people kayaking on it and everything's all like this in paradise lol, how untrue that all is of course, its built on industrial wasteland, with god knows what sort of industrial pollution lies underneath, and on the fringes of deep and dangerous clay pits which is far from safe to do much in the way of the speculated leisure activities they are portraying, as you probably can't see the bottom of it, let alone know whats been left in there from china clay activities over the many years that it's been abandoned.