What can realistically be done with the old Co-Op?

Tumble weed

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I walk past it and see the windows boarded up, smashed windows round the side and front, and the ceiling down in what was the travel shop / Stafford finance or whatever it turned too.

My question is realistically, what can the space be used for now ? Or is it best to just rip it down and start again ?
 

Sir BoD

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I walk past it and see the windows boarded up, smashed windows round the side and front, and the ceiling down in what was the travel shop / Stafford finance or whatever it turned too.

My question is realistically, what can the space be used for now ? Or is it best to just rip it down and start again ?
Turn it into a cinema and call it the flea pit.
 

Feed The Goat

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I walk past it and see the windows boarded up, smashed windows round the side and front, and the ceiling down in what was the travel shop / Stafford finance or whatever it turned too.

My question is realistically, what can the space be used for now ? Or is it best to just rip it down and start again ?

Millar Sandy have it for sale at 2.25 million pounds.

Seeing the old M&S sold for 300k, it would appear to overpriced by a couple of million quid.

The building is a liability for the owner, and is likely to sit empty for decades.

Can the upstairs be converted into flats? Not easily.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Albert Hall?
Hitler only had one.
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500 seats in the Albert Hall, so, potentially, up to a 1,000.
 

Withnail

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Must we be restricted by 'realistic' proposals?

Given that we have entered some sort of bizarre alternative reality, we might as well bung in our own proposals for razing the fecker to the ground and putting in a bid for it to be a fecking Spaceport.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
It will be knocked down as is SBCs intention, just as it is for princess street and beyond
That will no doubt cheer its neighbours at EE, Gregg's, Millets et al.

Anyway, away from a fantasy world where SBC rides to the rescue waving wads of taxpayer dosh that isn't needed elsewhere, what are the actual owners of the buildings intending to do?
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Oh, behind Game and EE?
Yeah - where they sold beds and model ships for a while...

The majority of that block was various Co-op outlets - Travel Agency, Flamingo Café, Department Store, Supermarket into the 80s, and the bank branch was even in there upstairs at one time.

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Gareth

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That will no doubt cheer its neighbours at EE, Gregg's, Millets et al.

Anyway, away from a fantasy world where SBC rides to the rescue waving wads of taxpayer dosh that isn't needed elsewhere, what are the actual owners of the buildings intending to do?

Sell it as previously stated by another poster, but they won't get what they want for it. That is fancy.

Talks are already underway with interested parties (2). Early days but long term the council want housing / apartments which is absolutely the right thing to do.
 
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