Ye Olde Uni Factory.

basil

basil

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Enquired with security guard as to what's happening on the site. Shrug of shoulders was all I got. However on closer inspection building materials are arriving daily. My inside info (Gilbert) suggests:- Lidl, Pizza Takeaway, Pharmacy, Tanning Provision, Bod, Subway.......
 
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EasMid

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I’d bet on more housing. The council need the tax income to fund all the improvements that are taking place 🙄
 
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PeterD said:
I have only been here 19 years so firgobe my ignorance. What is the old Uni Factory?
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It’s the big concrete area on the W.A.R between the Doxey Rd roundabout & the Kingsway(?) roundabout. Opposite side of Doxey Rd & railway lines to Venables ( I bet that’s got you wondering now😉😉)
 
Glam

Glam

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Gramaisc said:
Universal Grinding Wheel - just over the old bridge on Doxey Road - Saint Gobain in later days.

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EasMid said:
It’s the big concrete area on the W.A.R between the Doxey Rd roundabout & the Kingsway(?) roundabout. Opposite side of Doxey Rd & railway lines to Venables ( I bet that’s got you wondering now😉😉)
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If the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, you'd not only cop of snozfull of the foulest stench known at the time, but your whole house/car/washing etc would be covered in a fine film of pink dust.

PeterD said:
The one that had the unicorn heads?
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Yes love, that 1 x
 
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Mudgie said:
Glam,
Surely Boons of Derrington boasted "the foulest stench known".
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I’m pretty sure that’s what @Glam meant. Boon’s perfume mixed with a bit of grinding wheel dust.
I’ heard the smell was the reason they demolished 1 of the highfields tower blocks. They left the other 1 standing because the student residents never noticed the smell 😄😄😉
 
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Mudgie

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EasMid said:
I’m pretty sure that’s what @Glam meant. Boon’s perfume mixed with a bit of grinding wheel dust.
I’ heard the smell was the reason they demolished 1 of the highfields tower blocks. They left the other 1 standing because the student residents never noticed the smell 😄😄😉
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No, they demolished Brooke Court which had been the student residence and retained Binyon Court which hadn't.
 
gon2seed

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Work somewhere on Sieghford Lane, first on the right after Motorway as on way out of Doxey. Been there for 6+ years. Passed the factory prior to and post demolition daily. Work with few peeps who live in the area and wish I had a quid for every time someone says, "What do think they are going to do with it?". Well sign says its for Western Byepass Work, and fair enough there is a load of building equipment and machinery parked there on occaision; so looks like contractors use it for storage, but I do not think that'll be forever. Someone recons that it won't be used for housing until the trees planted, provide cover from the elevated Doxey Road. A Bod is going to be on Burley Fields, the new estate next to Castlefields. The date for that has just put back a year due to a change of building plans!

So in short I'm sure we will continue with the questions, is a decent site for something, an area on the up, but open areas within the nearby housing development may be more attractive? Certainly not overlooked, so watch that space! (Sounds like you have your beady eyes on it! Ed ;( )
 
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EasMid said:
I’d bet on more housing. The council need the tax income to fund all the improvements that are taking place 🙄
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The improvements are costed against central government funding, so there’s no need to balance the books on them at the council’s level
 
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Cue said:
The improvements are costed against central government funding, so there’s no need to balance the books on them at the council’s level
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Exactly what I was thinking! ;)
But really that would my bet too; when they no longer have a need for somewhere to store sand, aggregate and equipment, when ALL the repairs and road improvements have finished, (could be years!) and the trees have reached sufficient hight, more houses and cars for Doxey!
 
Glam

Glam

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Wouldn't it be nice, if for once, the powers that be built a whole estate of Council/social homes? Before anyone has a tizzy fit and spits their tea/coffee out all over their computer, and shouts me down, please hear me out.
Because of 'Right to buy' the council house stock dwindled, leaving families nowadays having to pay astronomical rents to private landlords. I imagine there will be a few NIMBYs complaining, tough.
I don't know about most of you, but my kids can't afford to buy a starter home that's £200.000? The deposit alone will take years to save up. Youngests friend bought a new build up Weeping Cross, the mortgage is for 45yrs. House is a tiny 2 bed affair. Hardly any room for 1 person, nevermind the 2 of them.

These new council homes should also be exempt from the Right to Buy, keep them for those that are struggling, get people out of bedsits and out of the hands of greedy landlords.

Small edit: Put solar panels on every home, hopefully bring the bills down slightly.
 
Gramaisc

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Glam said:
Wouldn't it be nice, if for once, the powers that be built a whole estate of Council/social homes? Before anyone has a tizzy fit and spits their tea/coffee out all over their computer, and shouts me down, please hear me out.
Because of 'Right to buy' the council house stock dwindled, leaving families nowadays having to pay astronomical rents to private landlords. I imagine there will be a few NIMBYs complaining, tough.
I don't know about most of you, but my kids can't afford to buy a starter home that's £200.000? The deposit alone will take years to save up. Youngests friend bought a new build up Weeping Cross, the mortgage is for 45yrs. House is a tiny 2 bed affair. Hardly any room for 1 person, nevermind the 2 of them.

These new council homes should also be exempt from the Right to Buy, keep them for those that are struggling, get people out of bedsits and out of the hands of greedy landlords.

Small edit: Put solar panels on every home, hopefully bring the bills down slightly.
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That sounds like communism.

Have you seen what people have been voting for for the last forty five years..?
 
Mudgie

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Glam said:
Wouldn't it be nice, if for once, the powers that be built a whole estate of Council/social homes? Before anyone has a tizzy fit and spits their tea/coffee out all over their computer, and shouts me down, please hear me out.
Because of 'Right to buy' the council house stock dwindled, leaving families nowadays having to pay astronomical rents to private landlords. I imagine there will be a few NIMBYs complaining, tough.
I don't know about most of you, but my kids can't afford to buy a starter home that's £200.000? The deposit alone will take years to save up. Youngests friend bought a new build up Weeping Cross, the mortgage is for 45yrs. House is a tiny 2 bed affair. Hardly any room for 1 person, nevermind the 2 of them.

These new council homes should also be exempt from the Right to Buy, keep them for those that are struggling, get people out of bedsits and out of the hands of greedy landlords.

Small edit: Put solar panels on every home, hopefully bring the bills down slightly.
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Yes Glam, wouldn't it be nice if we could go back to before 1979 and Thatcher ?
 
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