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Chas YaBB Administrator Offline I Love Billingshurst Posts: 42 Gender:	Billingshurst New Houses Jul 12^th, 2010 at 4:20pm lets see who is for or against the new buildings proposed for the town
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Reply #1 - Jul 15^th, 2010 at 8:29am

Am i really the only one on this forum that thinks that the building of new houses would be good for billingshurst. I accept that with the new house there would need to be updated infrastructure but surely this would increase the revenue of local businesses and also independant traders. I live in Penfold Grange and to be honest i would never have thought about Billingshurst before that was built i like this village and all it offers.

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Reply #2 - Jul 15^th, 2010 at 10:40am

it depends how long one has lived in the village we billingstonions were happy with our gas works,prison camp,factories,shops that you could buy anything,a post office at the station and three garages to get petrol, then came progress .loads of houses ,closed factories,shops and nowhere to get fuel. thats the best of getting old you only remember the good times Grin

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Reply #3 - Jul 15^th, 2010 at 11:40am

I agree entirely. 15 years ago, all of the shops were trading and there was little need to visit Horsham or other nearby towns for shopping purposes. Then came along all the new houses, effectively doubling the size of the population and the 'retail offer' in the village effectively spiraled downwards. As far as I can see there is no evidence that more houses and hence more residents result in more shops and greater variety. In fact, the evidence in Billingshurst at any rates shows that the relationship is an inverse one!

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Reply #4 - Jul 15^th, 2010 at 12:30pm

A very good point. When I moved from Rudgwick to Penfold Grange 10 years ago I thought it would be great for local traders. Not so.

Choices (greengrocer)
Badgers/Whites restaurant
Video Box
The Gables restaurant
The bicycle shop
Guitar shop (now empty)
Travel agent (now a bookies)
Antique shop (now a Pizza place and an Indian)
Hill View (now houses)
2 x clothes shops (Juice and the other one)
The butchers next but one to the Kings Arms (now empty I think)
The gifty type shop near that butchers
Poppies (now an Indian)
Lyndy Peppers (now a Chinese)
The Italian restaurant (now an Indian)
The pet fish shop (now an excellent off-licence)

all spring to mind. I cant remember all the rest.

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BobF YaBB Newbies Offline I Love YaBB 2.4! Posts: 44 Gender:	Re: Billingshurst New Houses Reply #5 - Jul 15^th, 2010 at 12:55pm I believe most of these shops/restuarants closed for a variety of reasons but 10 yrs ago we were not surrounded by '1 stop shop tesco's' or had expansive internet useage. Having said that I would have thought a decent Italian/French restuarant would do really well.
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Reply #6 - Jul 15^th, 2010 at 6:36pm

Chas wrote on Jul 12^th, 2010 at 4:20pm:

lets see who is for or against the new buildings proposed for the town

Why do I not want any more houses? You sum it up quite nicely in that last word. Billingshurst is still a VILLAGE. I moved out of a busy town to get more towards the countryside. Finances meant I had to compromise with a larger village, but I want to be in a village, not a town. If it grows much more, I'll be uping sticks again.

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Reply #7 - Jul 16^th, 2010 at 9:00am

Jeesh! Welcome to Stop The World, I Want To Get Off.

15 years ago, residents of Billingshurst were whinging about the traffic in the village centre and demanding a by-pass. They got one; the trade-off was expansion of the housing stock. Now the same people are saying that the village should have no more housing (and concomitant benefits) but they would rather like an eastern by-pass.

Do try to remember the primary reasons why people want to live in and around Billingshurst: the railway station, the Weald school and um, er...

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Reply #8 - Jul 16^th, 2010 at 9:50am

yes I agree but why should we just lie back and have all the buildings forced on us. I don,t no how long you have lived in the village but its not changing for the better.as a new boy only haveing lived here since 1946, and parents that ran a succesful shops in horsham and the village i often wonder where it all went wrong, cheers Sad

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CornedBeef YaBB Newbies Offline I Love Billingshurst Posts: 14	Re: Billingshurst New Houses Reply #9 - Jul 16^th, 2010 at 10:09pm Well as we are on the Billingshurst Forum, I suspect it must be either the parish councils or community partnerships fault. I dont know where it went wrong but I can't see it getting better any time soon. This isn't unique to Billingshurst.
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Susie YaBB Newbies Offline life is a journey Posts: 36 Gender:	Re: Billingshurst New Houses Reply #11 - Jul 19^th, 2010 at 10:01pm I say a huge yes to more housing!
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PaulLeaney Full Member Offline Welcome to the Billingshurst Forum Posts: 150	Re: Billingshurst New Houses Reply #12 - Jul 25^th, 2010 at 5:08pm with respect you must be joking i have seen what more houses have done to this village and till we have more foward planning for the community it will not work
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Reply #13 - Jul 26^th, 2010 at 4:20pm

I can assure you that I am quite serious. Billingshurst/Parbrook appears to have been expanded significantly over the last thirty or so decades and has very little of its original quaint village charm left. More importantly if more houses means that there maybe improved facilities and an improved infrastructure and also the possibility that traders/businesses mayconsider it as a viable business option to be here (more people = more trade) surely it can only improve Billingshurst be it as a large village or small town.

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Reply #14 - Jul 26^th, 2010 at 8:50pm

trouble I see with it expanding significantly is the fact Horsham is just down the road for bigger shopping days and Crawley is not a million miles away, nor is Chichester, so why would businesses prefer to set up in Billingshurst? Yes, local shops would get local trade, but anything bigger would surely consider setting up in a well established town where there is guaranteed regular trade rather than passing trade. Or would rents be significanlty cheaper here that it would be financially atractive to businesses?

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Question: New Houses in Billingshurst
For the proposal for new homes 4 (12.9%) Against the proposal for new homes 20 (64.5%) Dont care either way 6 (19.4%) Prefer not to say 1 (3.2%) Total votes: 31 « Created by: Chas on: Jul 12^th, 2010 at 4:20pm »

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