Chetwynd Centre to be Sold

Thehooperman

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If you clicked on the link it pointed straight onto what is now the Chetwynd Centre car park and what was the playground. I was there from 79 to 82. My late Mum had a Chetwynd inauguration certificate as she was on the staff when Chetwynd launched.
The schoolyard/car park went up to roughly where the current boundary fence is, then the school sports field went to somewhere around, I would estimate, where the front of the tills in the shop are.

Ah that explains you playing football then, I left school in 79 and when it was a grammar school we had to play rugby and cricket. No soccer allowed!!!

The field went up to where the right hand corner of Tescos (as you look at the front) and then ran along the same line as the wall behind the petrol station i.e. diagonally across Tesco.
 

Sir BoD

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Ah that explains you playing football then, I left school in 79 and when it was a grammar school we had to play rugby and cricket. No soccer allowed!!!

The field went up to where the right hand corner of Tescos (as you look at the front) and then ran along the same line as the wall behind the petrol station i.e. diagonally across Tesco.
Nope, it was predominantly a rugby school / cricket school during 82 to 85, and although it did also do football (not soccer), it was dependent on who took you for P.E as to what you would play. I still remember scoring the winning penalty in the shoot out for Drake against Anson. Yes, it did hit the crossbar, but it WAS definitely over the line.
 

Lucy

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Yes; amazingly they are. Looks like they are putting backs on them and turning them into terraced housing. That area is the one place they've done a good job with new housing, the ones on Park Street/Austin Friars are very in keeping...
 

Gareth

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That is how I see it, houses between the friars rd build and the tesco car park boundary, going across the current chetwynd centre car park, away from the building.

No extending the building at all
 

tek-monkey

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Says private gardens behind them? They also have parking out front, and are similar sizes to the houses opposite which already appear to have parking.
 

Wormella

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Says private gardens behind them? They also have parking out front, and are similar sizes to the houses opposite which already appear to have parking.

I looked through all of the floor plans, could only find plans for the friers rd houses, but the original planning app said 20 houses so I suspect they changed their mind and converted them to garages - I might have missed something though
 

tek-monkey

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I think it's ten new houses and 10 in the old bit on friars, then more likely flats in the older school bit?
 
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