Renovation is going well in Saltwell and Bensham. Now that the millionaire developers cant raise funds to build expensive houses we find the council is reduced to renovating. This is the policy our association favours.This is just one photo of an old terrance house restored to it's best with new frontage, railings and it now looks like it did when it was built.
The planners hate this. They want to be involved in modernism and removing the old. However the record of planners in Gateshead is awful. Buildings costing millions some 40 years ago are hated by the community and are at last being demolished. Gateshead hideous car park that starred in the Michael Caine movie "Get Carter", the Dunstan "Rocket" - a tower block that owes more to NASA than good design will follow St Cuthberts Village into the dustbin of history. These hated buildings share one thing in common - championed by professional planners.
Meanwhile in the real world what people want is capital to invest in their own home not consigning old buildings to the bulldozer for no good reason.
Renovation is not a soft option - it's the way forward.
2 comments:
A spell checker would be a good idea !
Yes. I know what you mean. However the blog has been going for 4 years and only occasionally do the spellings get mangled.
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