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Old Police HQ Headquarters in Baswich
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1JKz
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What would be wrong with just turning (without much effort) into playing fields, area for kids to play, folk to walk, people to picnic.
Baswich House would have been a great base for the area, for a meeting point; carpark reception; café; entertainment space; education camp etc etc
Keep the green space!
Baswich House would have been a great base for the area, for a meeting point; carpark reception; café; entertainment space; education camp etc etc
Keep the green space!
Steve_b
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This proposed development has expired.
Apricot
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That's what everyone living nearby (including me) would like.
Would be nice. But the costs of moving and development of the new Police HQ were quite high?
Putting 100 or so houses on there would create traffic chaos where there's already too much.
1JKz
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Land's only worth what someone will pay for it, not what should be paid for it.
I may put an offer of £20.15, on the promise that what i'll build there as well as being an awful development to look at, will create a thousand "affordable" homes and/or a million new jobs for the people of Stafford, see where it gets me.
I may put an offer of £20.15, on the promise that what i'll build there as well as being an awful development to look at, will create a thousand "affordable" homes and/or a million new jobs for the people of Stafford, see where it gets me.
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
db
#chaplife
anyone heard anything on the rumour mill about this land, or developing in this area in general?
me and the missus want to move up that end of town, but are spoilt now that we are in a new build house so all the ones we're looking at don't meet our expectations.. a new build house on these old Police grounds would be the perfect solution! any chance of them actually appearing in the next few years?
me and the missus want to move up that end of town, but are spoilt now that we are in a new build house so all the ones we're looking at don't meet our expectations.. a new build house on these old Police grounds would be the perfect solution! any chance of them actually appearing in the next few years?
db
#chaplife
because new houses are built to higher standards than older ones.. so the house i have at the moment (which is just a small 3 bed detached, nothing extravagant) has 3 loos, 2 showers, a bath, etc.. all the houses i've been looking at in ST17 don't come anywhere near in terms of facilities.. some of the 4 bedroom ones only have 1 toilet upstairs, for grud's sake! yes, yes, i know some of you used to share a wood hut with the whole street when you wanted a poo back in the good ol' days, but that's my point - new houses are built with much better facilities, better insulation, bigger doors, etc. so i'd be really interested in a new build house up that end of town
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Older houses have bigger rooms and more land, generally speaking. Plus you don't pay the premium of buying new, if I had the money I'd be looking for the bigger garden with option to modernise.
db
#chaplife
unfortunately, i'll be paying the premium for location in this instance.. i'm having to look at houses that are nowhere near as nice as my current one, just to live in an area with nice parks & schools for the little 'un!
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
New houses have to have wider doors now to comply with disabled access laws. This is also why electrical sockets are higher up the wall than they used to be, so people can reach them more easily.
And 3 toilets in a three bedroom house - is there one in every bedroom?
And 3 toilets in a three bedroom house - is there one in every bedroom?
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
One up, one down and an en-suite I expect.