Arbury Park

[ewx]

Not so long ago the land between King's Hedges Rd and the A14 was undeveloped; there was a car repair place for a while and the other path, but for the most part its main use was people walking their dogs. Over the last few years it's acquired housing and a school.

I think the houses look quite nice from the outside (though I'm sure they're not to everyone's taste).

However, the place is still a building site:

The route for the misguided bus, still under construction, can be found at the northeastern end. Formerly you could go under the A14 at this point, currently there's a sign telling you not to (no fence though).

Quite a few houses had bits of paper in the window with numbers and street names, and there are several rather ad-hoc name plates:

Hooray for graffiti?

A lot of other street furniture isn't ready yet, despite in some cases asking nicely:

...and some appears to be for the chop already:

Detail:

I assume the bollards will rise at some point (this is after all Cambridge).

I liked these:

Looking at www.sameanddifferent.net, this might be the source of the painted street signs?

I didn't try the benches but they don't look entirely comfortable to me.

I wish them luck selling houses right now:

There's already a one-way system.

A few more here.

Comments

[aldabra]

They look depressingly like the slum housingluxury yuppie flats on our road. Is it true that they've stopped all work until the economy picks up?

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

I like these a lot. Did you do much pp?

[arnhem.livejournal.com]

does anyone know what the ski-jump-roofed building is ? (pic 0611)

[dave holland (from livejournal.com)]

Arbury Park Henge! That's fantastic.

In the mean time, SCDC are proposing to put more houses on the land adjacent to this, if I understood their recent leaflet correctly.

I think public benches are designed to be uncomfortable to stop people sleeping on them. :-/

[david jones (from livejournal.com)]

I hope the graffiti road names live forever. They are awesome. Just the sort of touch a grim development like that needs to add a bit of character.