Bracknell residents have seen many developments throughout the years.

Whether you have just moved to town or have lived here your whole life, there are always changes taking place.

Although everything in life is so complex, as humans we often describe a certain somewhere or something with one specific word.

Although this is often regarded as putting something in a box, when we asked our readers to describe Bracknell in one word, it started conversations that took the question outside of just one word answers and into indepth discussions about how it has developed.

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One of the most commonly used one-word answers we received when we asked readers this question was ‘Home’ and ‘Community’.

The word in itself brings to mind comfort, family and safety which when you come back to always feels the same.

Even though that may not be everyone's experience while growing up in Bracknell, it is heart-warming all the same.

As a commuter town just outside London, Bracknell has seen many developments through the years including the regeneration project which started in 2017.

This has brought many new housing, the Lexicon shopping centre and therefore has brought many new families to the town.

This subject matter took George Found and Matthew Hegarty into a healthy conversation about the declining nature of the town in terms of regeneration, population size and social development.

Matthew Hegarty commented that he believed that the 'regeneration project would revitilise the town' Instead however his views was that it has been upstaged by other Berkshire locations such as the Elizabeth Line that has just launched in Reading.

When George Found mentioned about the town centre becoming overdeveloped and over-populated, Matthew said: “That’s always a problem when average sized towns suddenly see their populations explode! The town isn’t designed for such a large population density.”

Another word that has been used to describe the commuter town of Bracknell is roundabouts and underpasses.

Both David Caddick & Tracy Catlin, along with some others have described it as ‘roundabouty’.

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As a location which provides direct transport links to London, the need to control traffic is an all time high. However, one must admit that the number of roundabouts for one town is a little obsessive.

Due to the roundabouts, underpasses are also at an all-time high to make links across the area easy for pedestrians.

Unfortunately, underpasses have often increased the number of violent incidents that happen in Bracknell especially in the early hours when the underground tunnels are empty.

Although their was a mixed response from our readers, it was lovely to see that even if some people had a negative view of the town, for most it is a community driven area that sometimes may be a little over populated and developed.