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‎Upper Ashfields

Angel at 11:01, 13 November 2021

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Angel at 10:56, 13 November 2021

2021-11-13T10:56:11Z

Angel: Angel moved page Upper Ashfields to Ashfields: Page now mentions both Upper and Greater Ashfields

2021-11-12T12:19:31Z

Angel moved page Upper Ashfields to Ashfields: Page now mentions both Upper and Greater Ashfields

Angel at 12:18, 12 November 2021

2021-11-12T12:18:58Z

Angel at 11:59, 1 March 2021

2021-03-01T11:59:05Z

Angel: Created page with "A town some distance east of Schwingford, or south of Moistville. It is technically governed by the Moistville Unitary Authority, but mostly self-reliant. Upper Ashfi..."

2021-03-01T11:54:09Z

Created page with "A town some distance east of Schwingford, or south of Moistville. It is technically governed by the Moistville Unitary Authority, but mostly self-reliant. Upper Ashfi..."

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A town some distance east of [[Schwingford]], or south of [[Moistville]]. It is technically governed by the Moistville Unitary Authority, but mostly self-reliant.

Upper Ashfields and Greater Ashfields are new developments designed to include homes, shopping, and office spaces in a small town with a much higher proportion of green space. People living and working there will almost certainly be able to commute by walking or cycling through a park, and most of the map is laid out with parallel grids of roads and cycleways, so that you might travel into town for shopping or work without ever crossing a road.

Upper Ashfields has approximately 4000 homes, and Greater Ashfields 9500. These are small towns, but still larger than the preexisting village of Lower Ashfields.

The Upper Ashfields Village Committee owns the majority of land in the town, and gives preferential rent agreements to certain types of businesses. They prefer smaller and locally-owned businesses over chain stores, and are attempting to ensure that the high street shops are capable of catering to all of residents' basic needs. They also prioritise businesses specialising in fair trade, organic, or artisanal produce; trying to recreate the cultural environment of an old market town.

There are also large office spaces used by knowledge workers – middle-class employers who want their staff to have a pleasant working environment and high-quality local healthcare. Among these companies, a large legal and accounting consultancy is setting up a branch office, with meeting rooms all set up for clients to visit or call in, in the most hospitable environment possible. This new satellite office will be the first large company in town, so the Village Committee and the corporate head office are both very interested in the project. The new manager on site is [[Vicky Bracewell]] (6 months after the end of [[Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!]]), and [[Belle Carter]] will work there as well if I get around to writing [[The Littlest Intern]].

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-A group of towns, consisting of two relatively new planned communities, and one older village.
+A group of towns, consisting of two relatively new planned communities, and one older village. Residents in and around Upper Ashfields may use "Ashfields" to refer to the town, but generally only when it wouldn't cause confusion. Some of the businesses there, and the Village Committee, have taken to using "The Ashfields" to mean the whole area; but this is a marketing gimmick that hasn't come into general use among the population. Among the young people of the area (mostly those born between the founding of the two new towns), "Ashfields" means Greater Ashfields unless qualified.
 Upper Ashfields and Greater Ashfields are new developments designed to include homes, shopping, and office spaces in a small town with a much higher proportion of green space. People living and working there will almost certainly be able to commute by walking or cycling through a park, and most of the map is laid out with parallel grids of roads and cycleways, so that you might travel into town for shopping or work without ever crossing a road.
-Upper Ashfields has approximately 4000 homes, and Greater Ashfields 9500. These are small towns, but still larger than the preexisting village of Lower Ashfields.
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 ==Greater Ashfields==
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 It has the oddity that all the streets are named after either English lakes (residential streets), European mountains (business areas), or English rivers (shopping). Most newcomers to the area find this strange. The parks are named after capital cities from around the world, or after famous trains and railways for the linear parks.
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-A town some distance east of [[Schwingford]], or south of [[Moistville]]. It is technically governed by the Moistville Unitary Authority, but mostly self-reliant.
+A group of towns, consisting of two relatively new planned communities, and one older village.
 Upper Ashfields and Greater Ashfields are new developments designed to include homes, shopping, and office spaces in a small town with a much higher proportion of green space. People living and working there will almost certainly be able to commute by walking or cycling through a park, and most of the map is laid out with parallel grids of roads and cycleways, so that you might travel into town for shopping or work without ever crossing a road.
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 ==Upper Ashfields==
 Upper Ashfields is a much newer development, about eight miles east-northeast of Greater Ashfields. In some parts of the town the initial construction is still ongoing. It was founded when the Ashfields Development Corporation decided that rather than trying to fix their mistakes and recapture the original goal of Greater Ashfields, it would make more sense to allow it to become a conventional market town and create a ''new'' settlement, designed from the ground up based on what they had learned in their first attempt.
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 It has the oddity that all the streets are named after either English lakes (residential streets), European mountains (business areas), or English rivers (shopping). Most newcomers to the area find this strange. The parks are named after capital cities from around the world, or after famous trains and railways for the linear parks.
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	Upper Ashfields has approximately 4000 homes, and Greater Ashfields 9500. These are small towns, but still larger than the preexisting village of Lower Ashfields.		Upper Ashfields has approximately 4000 homes, and Greater Ashfields 9500. These are small towns, but still larger than the preexisting village of Lower Ashfields.
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		+	==Greater Ashfields==
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		+	Greater Ashfields was the first new town to be constructed, in the late 90s. It was supposed to be a 'Millennium Infrastructure Project', but had a lot of problems. Over the years, the central part has slowly evolved into a more traditional town centre, while shops in the outer areas couldn't survive and were converted back into housing. Some of the younger residents aren't aware that it was supposed to be anything different.
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		+	Several nearby villages have started to merge into the edges of the Greater Ashfiends sprawl, creating the impression of an older town with suburbs. These include Bullocksfeel (east), Pine Ridge (northeast), and Raybridge (northwest). Although Greater Ashfields has state of the art (at the time) schools, libraries, and medical facilities, the best school in the area is still Raybridge High, which is available as an option to students living anywhere between Bullocksfeel, Upper Ashfields, and Palmerston.
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		+	* Greater Ashfields is visited by characters in [[The Last New Start]].
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		+	==Upper Ashfields==
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		+	Upper Ashfields is a much newer development, about eight miles east-northeast of Greater Ashfields. In some parts of the town the initial construction is still ongoing. It was founded when the Ashfields Development Corporation decided that rather than trying to fix their mistakes and recapture the original goal of Greater Ashfields, it would make more sense to allow it to become a conventional market town and create a ''new'' settlement, designed from the ground up based on what they had learned in their first attempt.

	The Upper Ashfields Village Committee owns the majority of land in the town, and gives preferential rent agreements to certain types of businesses. They prefer smaller and locally-owned businesses over chain stores, and are attempting to ensure that the high street shops are capable of catering to all of residents' basic needs. They also prioritise businesses specialising in fair trade, organic, or artisanal produce; trying to recreate the cultural environment of an old market town.		The Upper Ashfields Village Committee owns the majority of land in the town, and gives preferential rent agreements to certain types of businesses. They prefer smaller and locally-owned businesses over chain stores, and are attempting to ensure that the high street shops are capable of catering to all of residents' basic needs. They also prioritise businesses specialising in fair trade, organic, or artisanal produce; trying to recreate the cultural environment of an old market town.

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	There are also large office spaces used by knowledge workers – middle-class employers who want their staff to have a pleasant working environment and high-quality local healthcare. Among these companies, a large legal and accounting consultancy is setting up a branch office, with meeting rooms all set up for clients to visit or call in, in the most hospitable environment possible. This new satellite office will be the first large company in town, so the Village Committee and the corporate head office are both very interested in the project. The new manager on site is [[Vicky Bracewell]] (6 months after the end of [[Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!]]), and [[Belle Carter]] will work there as well if I get around to writing [[The Littlest Intern]].		There are also large office spaces used by knowledge workers – middle-class employers who want their staff to have a pleasant working environment and high-quality local healthcare. Among these companies, a large legal and accounting consultancy is setting up a branch office, with meeting rooms all set up for clients to visit or call in, in the most hospitable environment possible. This new satellite office will be the first large company in town, so the Village Committee and the corporate head office are both very interested in the project. The new manager on site is [[Vicky Bracewell]] (6 months after the end of [[Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!]]), and [[Belle Carter]] will work there as well if I get around to writing [[The Littlest Intern]].
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		+	It has the oddity that all the streets are named after either English lakes (residential streets), European mountains (business areas), or English rivers (shopping). Most newcomers to the area find this strange. The parks are named after capital cities from around the world, or after famous trains and railways for the linear parks.

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 The Upper Ashfields Village Committee owns the majority of land in the town, and gives preferential rent agreements to certain types of businesses. They prefer smaller and locally-owned businesses over chain stores, and are attempting to ensure that the high street shops are capable of catering to all of residents' basic needs. They also prioritise businesses specialising in fair trade, organic, or artisanal produce; trying to recreate the cultural environment of an old market town.
-There are also large office spaces used by knowledge workers – middle-class employers who want their staff to have a pleasant working environment and high-quality local healthcare. Among these companies, a large legal and accounting consultancy is setting up a branch office, with meeting rooms all set up for clients to visit or call in, in the most hospitable environment possible. This new satellite office will be the first large company in town, so the Village Committee and the corporate head office are both very interested in the project. The new manager on site is [[Vicky Bracewell]] (6 months after the end of [[Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!]]), and [[Belle Carter]] will work there as well if I get around to writing [[The Littlest Intern]].
+There are also large office spaces used by knowledge workers – middle-class employers who want their staff to have a pleasant working environment and high-quality local healthcare. Among these companies, a large legal and accounting consultancy ([[SYL]]) is setting up a branch office, with meeting rooms all set up for clients to visit or call in, in the most hospitable environment possible. This new satellite office will be the first large company in town, so the Village Committee and the corporate head office are both very interested in the project. The new manager on site is [[Vicky Bracewell]] (6 months after the end of [[Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!]]), and [[Belle Carter]] will work there as well if I get around to writing [[The Littlest Intern]].
 It has the oddity that all the streets are named after either English lakes (residential streets), European mountains (business areas), or English rivers (shopping). Most newcomers to the area find this strange. The parks are named after capital cities from around the world, or after famous trains and railways for the linear parks.
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