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Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - gareth rees (7th Oct 2018 - 11:24:26) zipped out for some take away last night. saw signs for oak park and silent garden and thought how rubbish the names are for the new developments springing up in liphook. i'm not a nimby. we need housing. but do we have to have these bloody awful, bland, dumb names stuck on us? oak park - super bland. silent garden - just bloody stupid. can't the parish council veto? can't we have a say?

Re: Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - J (7th Oct 2018 - 12:11:07) They're just the development names, the road names will (likely) be different. Maple Park became Edmonton Way / Calgary Gardens / Maple Terrace / Redwood Terrace (names linked to Canada and hence the history of the area).

Re: Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - Racheal (7th Oct 2018 - 12:14:23) Not a NIMBY but clearly a NUMPTY as otherwise you would know the history of the areas the developments are being built in and would understand the reasoning behind the names

Re: Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - Hmmm (7th Oct 2018 - 13:10:01) It's called Silent Garden because that is what the location was always called/known as! Is Oak Park any more bland/unoriginal than 'The Mead' or 'The Maltings'?

Re: Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - Amy (7th Oct 2018 - 13:42:59) The names are just for the development, not forever. The new housing off Canada Way was Maple Park whilst building was taking place but now is a collection of road names. I’m not really sure what you are taking offence to as the names are pretty standard but rest assured that they won’t always be that way.

Re: Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - Paul Robinson (7th Oct 2018 - 14:28:51) For the record, I believe that the estate known as Silent Garden derives its name from the property that was on the land before it was knocked down prior to the new houses being built. As a matter of interest the District Council welcomed suggestions from the parish for naming the roads on this estate prior to them being built. As for Oak Park I imagine that this was inspired by the magnificent oak tree that dominates headland. I for one would prefer that to some amorphous collective with no local or natural connections. Paul Robinson

Re: Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - Gr (7th Oct 2018 - 15:32:55) Silent garden was the name of the house that was knocked down to make way for new development so very fitting But maybe “mad speedy driver road” would be more acurate

Re: Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - gareth j rees (7th Oct 2018 - 16:03:08) maple park and the canadian road names are ace bit of history etc imho oak park is a rubbish name and silent garden is a rubbish name too hopefully that'll be replaced by something better once the road names get named btw didn't know that about parish council welcoming suggestions or that rachel was so furious about everything

Re: Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - oldie (7th Oct 2018 - 16:48:33) "Sometimes a street is named after a landmark that was destroyed to build that very street. For example, New York's Canal Street takes its name from a canal that was filled in to build it." Wikipedia. Living on an Orchard Avenue adds up to 10% to the price of houses built on estates where there are no longer any orchards growing but evokes images of what the residents would like to imagine once was, but isn't any more, in part due to them! Ironically it doesn't work for everything: "Residents of 'Butt Hole Road' club together to change the street's unfortunate name. The constant jokes were just too much to take for the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road, a street named after a communal water butt that was originally in the area. So despairing households in the suburban street in Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, decided that the road's name simply had to change. The road was renamed Archers Way to refer to a medieval castle that is just half a mile away." 15 Funniest Street and Roads Names. Oddee website!

Re: Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - BT (8th Oct 2018 - 08:20:17) Just be thankful that you don't live (as one of my relatives did) in a road at Pratts Bottom ! I can only hope that the "lark" in Lark Rise refers to the birds that used to live in the fields here rather than the antics to be expected from the present residents !

Re: Oak Park / Silent Garden - dodgy names? - J (8th Oct 2018 - 16:48:03) Presumably Lark Rise is a nod to Flora Thompson who lived in the village and wrote Lark Rise to Candleford.

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