From personal professional experience prior to my retirement there are problems with both flooding and the local road system at Barnham. I expect that there are still a number of developers and land promoters working on solutions!

 

From the map, it has struck me that Barnham might make a good hub for significant housing expansion- or are there other factors that would mitigate against that such as flooding or SSSI status?  Railwards, connectivity is excellent with services toward Brighton, Horsham and beyond, the Solent area and local services to Bognor Regis and Littlehampton.

 

That's right - the area became fully developed in Victorian times.  Like many of the more central parts of Birmingham it also continues to be redeveloped, both housing and industry.  Whenever I visit Birmingham there seems to be another new building that I didn't recognise from before.

 
B. Barnham

 

I wondered who would spot the pattern in the naming.  I know nothing of the Jewellery Quarter - often wondered about it purely based on the name and somewhere that sounds like it's worth taking a look.

The map suggests that this is NOT a station obviously ripe for significant extra residential housing.  Do I have that right?

 
H: Habrough

 
J.  Jewellery Quarter.  I was hesitating to post this because I felt I had cheated by looking at a list of stations beginning with the letter J; on the other hand, Graham had kindly chosen to help us by his choice of labels for the maps.

I recommend a visit to the Jewellery Quarter's museums to get an appreciation of British craftsmanship and a realisation that there is still some manufacturing in this country.

 
E. Earlsfield.

 
A) The First one is Bounds Green, north London

 
F Falmouth

 
Our government is planning to provide substantial extra housing around existing infrastructure such as railway stations.  It makes sense rather than building isolated and unconnected communities on fields in the middle of nowhere.  There's more to it than that, though - considerations that it's not wise to build on land that will flood, nor in places so far from anywhere that there's no business  case / prospect of work in reasonable commute distance.  And other services too.  Nor can you really build residences on and where there are already a load of residences unless you're redeveloping tired neighbourhoods or infilling.

Here are 10 maps of random railway stations and there immediate areas, each anonymised.  Which look like they may be candidates for new housing or industry and can you identify where they are?

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B.


C.


D.


E.


F.


G.


H.


I.


J.