Stafford Castle to be sold!

1JKz

Well-Known Forumite
...not really, i haven't heard anything anyway.

Just trying to gauge the believability of a headline like that, who believed that (in todays current climate of CC's massive balls-ups of closings and buildings sales, and general development saftness) the castle could be sold?
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I've heard they they intend to replace it with a modern, high-tech castle - built on one of the remaining town-centre car parks. They just need to be confident that the battlements won't keep falling off.

Matter of time.
 

ben0239

Well-Known Forumite
I think the county council are desperately close of losing any of the little credibilty that they had due to there catalogue of failures and poor choices..... here are just a few examples:

1. Closing the previous council offices and building new ones, with the hope of selling the old buildings/land during the worse recession we have seen in years causing building and land to drop in value. How much land / buildings still left unsold.?

2. The former council office at Riverway - why the council tried to designate this land for residential care home, rather than letting the market and prospective buyers decide was a massive own goal and us undoubtedly delayed that site being redeveloped.
http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Entr...set-approval/story-20251436-detail/story.html

3. There inabilty to stop the downgrade of the hospital

4. The idea that the Shire Hall could be closed etc etc
 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Laws change at the convenience of the elite

Unless the people revolt

The forests sell off is only on hold
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
No it isn't.

Anyway, given that the entire site has Scheduled Monument status it is unlikely that anyone would want it - there are rather extreme limitations on what you could do with it, ie nothing.

If the determination is there on the part of the council and the buyer is suitably politically connected (i.e. a mate of Camoron or Moribund depending on who wins the next election) then I'm sure a way would be found to erect a huge yellow neon M at the top of the castle and turn it into a drive-through.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
It's hardly a castle, more like a few big stones scattered on a hill.
Firstly that's somewhat incorrect.

Secondly they're our big stones scattered on a hill and part of the heritage of the town, not for the council to sell off for short term gain (assuming they ever choose to do so that is).
 
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