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Guildhall closure?
- Thread starter Tumble weed
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tek-monkey
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Still don't get this, the place is almost completely backed onto so the only light comes from directly above. Who wants a flat where if lucky you'll have natural light from one direction and only at high noon? And thats assuming they make the whole roof glass and keep a walkway through the middle like a fake street.
Mudgie
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"Who wants a flat where if lucky you'll have natural light from one direction and only at high noon?"
Someone living with their parents.
Or someone seeking asylum.
tek-monkey
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It won't be cheap to convert, and the asylum seekers are getting the student accommodation at the uni. Seems an odd venture when potentially anything on the ground floor on the south side will never see natural sunlight inside. Most warehouse conversions at least have exterior walls, this will be like living in a basement.
Tumble weed
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You're kinda assuming they keep the building as it is , if as they say , there's structural issues with the carpark , issues with the now blocked off walkway towards the college / gym, and issues with the roof, who's to say they won't get rid of the centre altogether when the markets moved and start from scratch ?
Tumble weed
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The whole thing seems a bit of a shambles tbh, surely the new owners are pushing themselves further into debt as they've still got rents payable even after kicking out the tenants.
littleme
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I thought I'd seen plans somewhere, for the whole thing to be knocked down & rebuilt as propper housing... Maybe I imagined it...
proactive
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I'm sure that someone somewhere has a plan, written on the back of an envelope.
Gramaisc
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This?
Future High Streets Fund - Stafford
Great to see the £14million grant being put to good use. Annual inflation with soon increase this sum to a whopping £13million! Bring on client confidentiality! RARARA...
Tumble weed
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That sketch looks terrible , and it'll end up shoddy knocked together modern shoeboxes, that'll attract a hefty premium as they'll be in the luscious gardens of the church.This?
Future High Streets Fund - Stafford
Great to see the £14million grant being put to good use. Annual inflation with soon increase this sum to a whopping £13million! Bring on client confidentiality! RARARA...www.staffordforum.com
Tumble weed
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Update...
tek-monkey
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Is it still going to be flats?
The Hawk
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This comes across to me as putting more pressure on the remaining tenants to quit, rather than any suggestion that work is about to commence.
tek-monkey
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Stops the flow of people past the shops inside, forcing them to lose trade, and yes also the market loses all access from the south so you'd have to walk round the car park. I assume some tenants won't leave? Or maybe they have not been offered a get out on the contract and they're hoping to make them default and still pay?
Thehooperman
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Is this legal from a fire safety perspective?
joshua
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Two points of public access/egress as well as "staff exits" in Crabberry st and StMarys and others
Tumble weed
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Doubtful , hinders the disabled too. And I believe some of the remaining tenants are refusing to move and making them honour the contract, so by crippling footfall, they'll close anyway, and probably have to pay the centre to end their contact early.
Awful practice by the centre .