Cambridge 2000: Orchard Park
| Description: Orchard Park |
Ten years on,
the large plot that was once a field is now the Orchard Park estate.
In the foreground is a football pitch, with a basketball court just
to the left of the photo. Behind the pitch is the
Orchard Park Community Primary School
and beyond that some of the hundreds of homes that have been built
on the site, with some more to come. The school has a 15 m high, 6 kw
maximum, vertical wind turbine that can be seen in the photo, at
the edge of its playing field, that was installed in 2009 under the
pretence that this is somehow environmentally friendly.
It is impressive that so much could change in just ten years,
because this estate was not even on the horizon until 2000. On
the other hand, the local government did not do enough to ensure
that the development was carried out to a high standard, and
there are also no supermarkets or other stores of any size
either on the site or nearby, which is poor urban design.
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