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Eastern Avenue; never built. To cater for road safety, with an original speed limit of 40 mph, no houses on Abbeymead Avenue actually face directly on the road. Smaller, piecemeal developments have continued to be added, turning Abbeymead into one of the more populous suburbs of the city. Lobleys Drive is an important spine road off Abbeymead Avenue, leading, over the M5, into Coopers Edge and Gloucester Business Park. However, despite being required to be an adopted road by 2008, through the business park, as a result of a Section 106 agreement, it currently remains a private road.
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supermarket and a handful of small shops. Over the following few years, a community centre, a doctor's surgery, a pub (the Ridge & Furrow, operated by
Courage) and a veterinary clinic were built beside the centre. In the 1980s, the Community Centre was built, initially without the current sports
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which was built around the same time and even has its own Heron Way. Later parts of Heron Park, such as
Hawthorne and Bittern Avenues completed around 1981, were not built to the Radburn model. Because Fieldfare linked the Radburn-built houses and conventional houses of the new part, those houses in
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The biggest suburban shopping outlet, next to Heron Way (Abbeydale) has five shops in addition to the
Morrisons supermarket, Taylors (Estate Agents), Ruby Cantonese/Dave's Fish & Chip shop, Coral Betting Shop, plus Sue Ryder Care charity shop. Adjacent is the Ridge & Furrow Pub, Hadwen
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Safeway already had building permission for before being taken over by Morrisons. The pub was closed by Morrisons around 2012, to make way for a petrol station, which was turned down by planners, and has since reopened.
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Doctors' Surgery/Pharmacy and Veterinary Surgery. Part of the shopping complex includes a community centre with an all-weather pitch. Straight across Abbeymead Avenue are several other small retail units.
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