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Spending some money to see it become a "fantastic" upmarket hotel would be a risky venture for a 4½ acre site that could easily net over £2 million for redevelopment as at least thirty four-bedroomed houses that would otherwise be built on green fields.I have visited Tillington Manor once in about 40 years. The last time was for a wedding when I was about 10 (I was the paige boy), so sometime around 1990.
I recently visited the Holmcroft Park next door and looked over the fence to view the hotel. I remember thinking at the time that it looked a little run down and unloved, hence why I'm not surprised by the news.
The hotel could be fanatic but it needs some money spent on it. I'd love to see it become an upmarket hotel. There are enough budget / standard hotels in Stafford and I don't want another care home.
You had me up to the bit where you said Stafford needs more homes lolSpending some money to see it become a "fantastic" upmarket hotel would be a risky venture for a 4½ acre site that could easily net over £2 million for redevelopment as at least thirty four-bedroomed houses that would otherwise be built on green fields.
Stafford always needs more houses - and more care homes !
The exclamation mark was meant to suggest that those nine words weren't entirely serious.You had me up to the bit where you said Stafford needs more homes lol
Spending some money to see it become a "fantastic" upmarket hotel would be a risky venture for a 4½ acre site that could easily net over £2 million for redevelopment as at least thirty four-bedroomed houses that would otherwise be built on green fields.
Stafford always needs more houses - and more care homes !
You had me up to the bit where you said Stafford needs more homes lol
The exclamation mark was meant to suggest that those nine words weren't entirely serious.
And who's going to be able to afford these 4 bedroomed Lego build homes?
Then it'll be forty or fifty two-bedroomed "affordable" houses which will give the planning application a better chance of being accepted.And who's going to be able to afford these 4 bedroomed Lego build homes? Not me, and certainly not my own kids.
Yes, so it'll be both on the site of Tillington Hall, nice £500,000 homes on the quiet bit where the hotel now is then ugly "affordable" flats looking like office blocks adjacent to the main road - there'll be no problems with that as far as SBC's planning department is concerned.No developer builds 'affordable' homes unless forced to by planning. Hence the £500,000 houses opposite the Crematorium with the 'affordable' homes as flats which look like office blocks.
Well, it is near Moorfields and Pitt Street!It looks like somebody may have started to pinch the lead.
Is Pitt Street a bit rough then?Well, it is near Moorfields and Pitt Street!
Is Pitt Street a bit rough then?
I'll swing by when I next use Alliance Street.Used be, I am going back a few yrs though.
Do you remember those two that held up the Stone Road Post Office a few yrs ago? They came from that area, although one was from Young Avenue, right opposite the school.
Let's just say, I wouldn't want my car to break down whilst driving through.
What about John Donne Street? That’s even rougher. Even the cats have broken noses.
You’re taking a risk driving along those streets slow down below about 20mph & they’ll have your wheels off.