Old Pennar School - Getting to Local Amenities

The planning application for the Old Pennar School Site quotes the following distances to local amenities:

Distance quoted by developer’s agents.
Convenience Shop – 150 metres
Local Shopping Centre  - 500 metres
Doctors – 1300 metres
School – 600 metres
Public Open Space – 500 metres
Train Station  - 1400 metres

I thought I would look into these, using a bit of local knowledge and a lot of Google Earth.

This is what I found. You can argue with the routes taken, but the grid design of PD makes for quite a bit of variety in routing, but not so much distances.

Distance quoted by developer’s agents. Probably straight line distances.	Walking or driving distances are:
	Drive	Walk
Convenience Shop – 150 metres	480 metres	190 metres
Local Shopping Centre  - 500 metres	2000 metres	1370 metres
Doctors – 1300 metres	2120 metres	1480 metres
School – 600 metres	420 metres	420 metres
Public Open Space – 500 metres	960 metres	400 metres
Train Station  - 1400 metres	1850 metres	1520 metres

The Google Earth bit - I'm afraid the Pictures will spill over the page. If you cannot see them all, then I'll put up different size ones. Just let me know.

I think the developer or his architect went by helicopter. Have you seen any about lately?