February 1st, 2006 at 11:58am
Under Buy A House in Horley+ Property Rental in Horley Surrey
Horley Property To Rent
A few points to consider before renting
I suppose some questions should be asked of Horley Letting Agents also.
I wonder where someone might stand ( I know nothing about house or flat rental in Horley) if, say they were renting a Horley property that flooded due to being built on a floodplain?
Where would they stand if the road that they let their house or flat in suddenly became dangerous, noisy, dirty, smelly and uninhabitable? Would the Horley letting agent be liable? Or would the tennant dissapear down the To Let! 
The main thing to ask before you rent a house in Horley is whether it has any history of flooding in the past and whether it is built on a known floodplain and might flood in the future.
Again, I welcome comments on this topic.
By Jez
January 30th, 2006 at 12:15pm
Under Buy A House in Horley
Contact Horley Estate Agents
Speak to an estate agent in Horley (as opposed to an estate agent outside of Horley) before you buy or even look at a new house. Ask specifically if the house that you are interested in buying is going to be affected by the Horley Master Plan. Although this would be flagged in the most basic of land searches, the estate agent’s advice will be free and land searches cost money and can be time consuming. Put the estate agent on the spot and ask:
Will housing insurance be affected
Are there going to be traffic or parking issues
Is the current road layout going to be affected
Is the house built on a floodplain (has it EVER flooded if the question is eluded)
Is the area going to be one big building site for the next five years
How close to the River Mole is the house situated
An honest estate agent in Horley should be able to answer all those questions.
By Jez
January 27th, 2006 at 10:32am
Under Buy A House in Horley
Buy A House In Horley
Some of the positive issues of buying a house in Horley are:
Close to Airport
Close to Hospitals
Close to M23
Close to M25
Close to London
Close to Brighton
Close to Railway
Close to Good Schools
Don’t Buy A House In Horley
Some of the negative issues of buying a house in Horley are:
Close to Airport (pollution / noise)
Close to Bad Schools
Horley Master Plan (overcrowding)
Town Centre
Price of Housing
Constant Droughts
I like to think that the good outweigh the bad and that buying a house in Horley isn’t such a bad proposition. Just don’t buy one in the middle of a flood plain!
By Jez
December 21st, 2005 at 09:40am
Under The South East Plan
Watching ITV News last night, they showed frightening pictures of the Weirwood Reservoir at a shockingly low level. Over twelve feet lower than it should be, in fact.
The upshot of the news story Millions of homes face higher water rates and meters is that water meters are to be forced to have water meters.
Below is a picture taken in May 2005 - is’s easy to see how low the water is - it’s worse now but I can’t find a more current photo.
With all the planned housing boom (can you have a planned boom? I thought the whole idea of a boom was that it was unexpected!) in the South, if they can’t already sustain the levels of water needed how are they going to cope with all the thousands of new houses planned? It’s easy to imply the South’s existing householders are wasteful with their water usage, but the truth seems to me to lie with over expansion being the culprit. So why are there so many more houses planned? Why are there no new reservoirs planned? The planned boom is going to be on arid land, it seems.
I pertso9nally have no qualms whatsoever about having a water meter installed - BUT will it solve the problem? Of course not. Only an idiot with their head stuck up their reservoir would think so.
The planned boom needs a serious rethink and some proper planning - not stopgap management with no real resources integrated.
By Jez
November 14th, 2005 at 11:18am
Under General
Recent reports into the Fastway fiasco are showing that fastway is a total waste of money.
The roads are still heavily disrupted around the Longbridge roundabout in HGorley with no end in sight in the near or far future.
The project has overspent by £6.2 million bringing the current cost to around £29.2 million. The rough average of users per route per day is approximately four (and from what I have seen, that estimate is generous).
I am fully expecting that the retort from officials is going to be that it’s our own fault for not wanting to get out of our cars that this project is flopping - the truth is that people cannot trust this service - there are often no bus stops near them - I personally would have to walk at least two miles to get to a bus stop to go to work and nearer to four at the other end.
When is someone going to be made to explain why so much money and time has been wasted on this ridiculous project? Who did the research? Who got paid? Why do we have to put up with the powers that be, wasting our money on ill though out crap?
By Jez
September 21st, 2005 at 12:51pm
Under General
Ok, so is anyone ever going to own up to taking the dog from the Langshott Estate several years ago? If anyone knows its current whereabouts I would be interested to know. We should have a Horley’s Missing Bronze (effect) Dog Amnesty.
Any details of its whereabouts would be appreciated. Any leads (bronze effect) will be followed. I am going to try to reconstruct the crime scene if there are no witnesses to come forward.
Does anyone have any pictures of the missing dog so that I can attempt to jog a few memories?
Horley just has not recovered since the loss of its beloved pet. If the missing statue was to be returned I am certain that the well being of Horley Town will recover. Estate agent shops and charity shops will no longer be the only shop windows to balefully stare into as you walk through the town on your way to somewhere, anywhere, more interesting. The Gatwick will become a family pub with a bouncy castle in the rear garden. The Virgin airhostesses will once again walk its lonely and cracked footways. The tramps that sit outside Liddl’s sipping Tennant’s Super will get back their once prosperous jobs of Quick Fit Fitters and Surgeons at East Surrey Hospital.
Has anyone seen the dog?
Things to look out for:
Have cans of bronze (effect) Pedigree Chum been mysteriously disappearing from your cupboard?
Has your dog recently given birth to a litter of half-bronze (effect) puppies?
Horley police have long since given up looking for this dog - the last known clue to it’s whereabouts were when the hardware shop in Horley town centre shut down due to massive theft losses from its Duraglit and Brasso shelves.
Bring back the dog.
Here’s (sort of) how it used to look
By Jez
August 30th, 2005 at 12:05pm
Under The South East Plan
I didn’t realise that FASTWAY is an acronym!
Here’s what it stands for:
F = Folly
A = Adding
S = Surplus
T - Traffic
W = Without
A = Achieving
Y = Yield
So, it IS living up to expectations!
By Jez
August 9th, 2005 at 09:25pm
Under General+ The South East Plan
Here’s another example of the SOUTH EAST PLAN being taken advantage of by builders making money out of government policy - BARRATT HOMES in this case.
The owners of large houses along the A25 west of Reigate town centre have been tempted to sell their large garden to BARRATT’s so that they can build a whole housing estate even though there are trees situated in these gardens with preservation orders on them.
If it wasn’t for the the SOUTH EAST PLAN planning permission would not have been granted but so long as they include a minimum of relatively low cost starter homes in the plan, approval will be granted.
The residents of Reigate who use the cricket ground or the tennis club or the rugby club or the bowls club or the croquet club will lose the wonderful views of the north downs for which Reigate is famouse The view will be replaced by a roofsacpe which is actually acknowledged in the planning application submitted by Rippon Development Service of Reading on behalf of Barratt’s.
No doubt planning will approved in spite of all the objections about local congestion, lost views etc.
Yours sincerely
M sheppard
By mick
August 8th, 2005 at 12:20pm
Under The South East Plan
Dr Lucas, Green Euro-MP for the South-East England region, said: “This level of housing development is simply too high for the region, which is already over-crowded and economically ‘overheating’.
I meant to mention this here a while ago as it’s a major concern of mine regarding the South East Plan - water. Where is the supply going to come from? We already have a water shortage in the South East - and nothing is being done about it as far as I know.
The proposed new houses will actually “save” water according to the plans. Therefore not making an impact on the current water supply. How can this be? This is fuzzy logic at its worst! Installing water saving devices in toilet cisterns in the proposed 578,000 new homes is not going to lessen the impact on the already dangerously low water supplies.
Why aren’t there plans to build reservoirs on the land instead of the new housing?
By Jez
July 30th, 2005 at 02:48pm
Under Horley Master Plan+ The South East Plan
Local people (especially my friends) are really starting to moan about the Fastway Bus Route (now something like £5,000,000 over budget, I hear though I will check to make sure that’s correct ). Now that some of the new bus stops are starting to go in on the roads, we are noticing that they are not indented as all good bus stops should be - no, they are out dented. Further crippling the flow of traffic. Because buses struggle to pull out into traffic. THIS IS HORLEY NOT PARIS!! There just isn’t that much traffic in our ghost town! At least not until they put in out dented bus stops and the traffic gets grid locked every time the bus stops to pick up the SINGLE passenger that wants to use it for that week.
The fastway bus is going to be a massive white elephant. I just cannot see people being winkled out of their cars to get on a bus that doesn’t cover most of the surrounding area. Most people will have to drive to their nearest bust stop.
And this in the name of global warming?? We are made to feel guilty about using our cars when air travel is on the increase, every airport in the country wants to expand and allow more flights and pollute god only knows how many more times than cars do.
This is not the answer in my eyes.
By Jez
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