Plastic street signs cost about £360. But they only last 30 years or so, and maybe a lot less…judging by the condition of some recently vandalised signs.
Yet for only a couple of hundred pounds more we could have replicas of original signs, such as those in Clifton Terrace and Montpelier Terrace (see photo). Continue reading
The culture secretary has turned down the MCHA’s attempt to list the French protestant church listed. The church is in the city’s Regency Square conservation area, tucked away behind the seafront in a mews that partly serves the adjacent Metropole Hotel. The church closed in 2008 and is now a private house.
We asked English Heritage to list the building largely because of its cultural significance. But the culture secretary ruled that its architecture wasn’t good enough to be worth listing. The association decided not to appeal against this ruling. It is notoriously difficult to get Victorian buildings listed. Continue reading
Killby and Gayford the construction company hired to convert the northern block of Mitre House into a hotel have gone bust.
Construction work on Mitre House stopped in April, barely a month after it started. Killby and Gayford was one of the biggest construction firms in the country and carried out the renovation of Downing Street in 2008. The company is now in the hands of the administrators. Continue reading
FRESH plans to build a high-rise hotel on the old ice rink site in Queen Square have been submitted by developers Stonehurst Estates. However, the plans show little change from those that the same developer submitted last year. The MCHA has renewed its objections to this high-rise horror.
The previous plans for a six-storey hotel were withdrawn at the end of January, just days before they were due to be considered by the planning committee. More than 200 people objected had objected to these plans. Continue reading
WORK on converting the old Royal Alex into flats has now started in earnest. By the end of October 2011 the old nurses’ quarters, which can be seen from Dyke Road, had been partially demolished.
It is a bitter-sweet moment for many of us. Over the next couple of months the nurses quarters, the old Continue reading
