General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

basil brush,
Just read that newspaper article and what a load of codswallop Briar Homes have come out with!
“help reinstate a greater sense of enclosure to this part of Cross Street”
'ENCLOSURE!': Put a prison wall around Cross Street and it will do the same!
“The development will provide an effective screen to many of the unintentionally exposed rear elevations and it will mask much of the negative frontage to the Standish Centre."
Who are they trying to kid!
If they are so concerned about '...the negative frontage', then why don't they spend some money on the existing buildings and provide the area with '...a positive frontage'.
But! Nothing was done to stop anyone 'sticking' two relatively modern and bland looking supermarkets in the middle of Standish, which definitely have 'negative frontage' - certainly have never blended in, unobtrusively, to the architectural environment nor the period of many buildings of that area.
I know Cross Street very well and there are very few parking places and the street is narrow - also, there are double yellow lines on both sides of that street in some parts. Furthermore, Standish Library is in that street with limited parking space and there are a number of shops down the street with parking space in front for about six cars (for shop owners' cars, delivery vehicles and customers' cars etc).
Next, if you are heading to the motorway, Shevington, Wrightington, Coppull or through those places, you probably need to go through Standish centre traffic lights - which is a nightmare, especially in the 'rush hours' - unless you take another route, such as going all the way down to the Cherry Gardens, then heading down through Beechhill, then going through Standish Lower Ground and into Shevington.
Additionally, there are many terraced houses in Church Street with very limited parking space and some houses in Market Place with limited parking space; no large available land to build a car park. When these terraced houses were built, there was no consideration regarding any resident owning a car or any other type of vehicle.
St. Wilfrid's Church is in Market Place and opposite one end of Church Street, so when there are weddings or funerals taking place, then it is pure chaos to try and find a parking place.
So, I think, Briar Homes need to purchase the library, demolish it, turn the land into a helicopter pad and provide a permanent helicopter service for all residents.
By the way, it would be interesting to know who Richard Calvert is! (?)