"Jack Taylor" Jack @Carney.co.uk wrote in message
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What assurances will Metronet receive that, if they do
incur additional expenditure by locating further away
from Croxley Green, the local council will not then
plan a new housing estate for sometime in the next
twenty years that will *still* result in the depot being
surrounded by residential properties?

The Green Belt should be that assurance.

Anyway, it sounds to me that the residents are not asking for the thing to
be built elsewhere, just that there should be an access road to a main road
and not Harvey Road. This sounds pretty reasonable to me. Most depots are
accessed from main roads, OTTOMH all except Neasden, which has one access in
residential Quainton Street the other entrance on main Neasden Lane.

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