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Did any of the new houses actually get flooded?

Normally new houses built in areas prone to flooding are built at a slightly higher level, required as part of the planning permission.

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There’s a few roads (B5426 near Gyfeilia, B5097 near Rhostyllen) that have been dug up for resurfacing but they only did patches and missed half of the potholes. Similar story on New Hall Road in Ruabon which was done last year.

Surely it’s cheaper to do it right first time?

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I thought it was only Orange broadband who did that.

Useful to know.

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Arriva, GHA and Vale were all running buses this morning, all with over a foot of snow on their roofs :rolleyes:

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@lazyjack 4739 wrote:

I drive down this road several times a day and the reason some cyclists use the road is because the pavement (cycle lane) gets covered in crap from the trees. The road sweeper cleans the roads but not the pavements.

Most of the dropped kerbs from the path to the road are all either really short or aren’t flush with the road (unless something’s been done about it over the last few years).
So if you want to get on the path you have to slow to a snail’s pace to make the turn and bump up the kerb or be a bit of a daredevil and try and jump it when you’re riding at 20mph+.

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@NewRisingSun 4709 wrote:

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People in the area particularly in Tanyfron have no idea what the centre actually does and therefore nobody attends it for its stated purpose. At the moment it just appears a glorified gym and conference centre.

I was told at the weekend that the Glasshouse in Cefn Mawr is now currently locked up and not being used for anything. Was that paid for by WCBC or the THI?

Someone mentioned transport before, I wouldn’t heap praise on them just yet:

The Bloor Homes development in Gatewen included demolishing the old railway bridge and filling in the cutting. Seemed an awful lot of money to spend just so somebody doesn’t have to maintain a bridge.

Now that Wrexham and Shropshire have stopped running trains from Wrexham, do any other companies use the ‘depot’ platforms that were rebuilt? I can’t remember whether WAG paid for it or if W&S did.

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It’s not like there’s a shortage of space where the buses drop off, they could make the big paved area a bit smaller to allow buses to pull in off the road.

I wonder if there were plans for a bus layby, but someone decided if the buses pull in off the road nobody would let them out again if it was busy.

Perhaps there should be a peak time bus lane on the 2 lane section? Traffic copes with 1 lane at the moment in the rest of the area.

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Well said Sam.

The PKC group’s original plans for extending the canal and creating a high quality housing/leisure development for the site seem to have now changed into having an open cast coal mine in the middle of a residential area/world heritage site.

There’s also a considerable amount of scaremongering going on in the area suggesting that ‘affordable housing’ means ‘council house slum’.

It seems odd that on their vote they don’t include the option for the mixed use development of the site (which may or may not include an extension to the canal), only ‘cheap’ housing.

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That would make an interesting column…. :D

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It does indeed appear to be a bribe, but it’s very common practice.
They’re called section 106 agreements where the developers pay the council to provide or improve infrastructure (schools, roads, cycle routes) in the area in return for being granted planning permission.

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