What should be done with Gloucester Prison?
The City of Gloucester offers visitors and residents a range of attractions, from its Roman foundations through to the modern Gloucester Quays shopping centre located next to the Victorian docks, home of the National Waterways Museum.
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Gloucester prison
But little is made of its location next to the UK's longest river.
With the announcement that Gloucester Prison will be closing at the end of March, as a city, we now have a great opportunity to look at how a large area of riverside real estate can best be used.
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Ideas circulating in the press are suggesting there is interest from Malmaison to turn the site into a luxury hotel. The company has experience with this type of project and has successfully converted Oxford Jail. However Oxford Jail has some great architecture in its favour with its castle like exterior.
Gloucester prison has been flooded in the past, so any re-development will need to take this into account. But building on the successful re-development of the docks a mix of commercial and residential would offer much needed homes and employment.
What is certain, property in the surrounding area will see an increase in value once any development is completed.
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The Property Centre was launched in 1997 with its 1st office in Tuffley. It has grown to encompass seven offices in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire; accounts for nearly a third of all sold properties in Gloucester*, and offers a residential lettings service. In July 2012 The Property Centre won their categories for Estate Agency Gloucestershire 2012 – 2013 and Estate Agency Worcestershire 2012 – 2013.
Comments
by BunnyMatthews
Sunday, January 20 2013, 1:18PM
“Accommodation for the homeless.”
by Hubert1841
Saturday, January 19 2013, 2:57PM
“H.M.P. Gloucester, what good do you think you do?
Do you think that I'll be different when you're through?
You bend my heart and mind and you warp my soul,
your stone walls turn my blood a little cold.
H.M.P. Gloucester, may you rot and burn in hell.
May your walls fall and may I live to tell.
May all the world forget you ever stood.
And the whole world regret you did no good.”
by bonzaharris1
Friday, January 18 2013, 10:52PM
“Demolish it, and build another Tescos, you can never have too many Tescos in Gloucester.”
by onelifeonly
Friday, January 18 2013, 6:48PM
“Put all the scum of the earth in there lock the cells, and lock the entrance and never go back.”
by Jewbacca
Friday, January 18 2013, 5:22PM
“Nice advert, guys!”
by Justica
Friday, January 18 2013, 5:15PM
“With the expected influx of Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants (approx 500,000 per year), this could be used for accommodation.”
by Glawsterman
Friday, January 18 2013, 4:50PM
“A Gloucester Heritage, history and family history centre along with Gloucester museum and the Regiment museum.”
by QuedgeleyGuy
Friday, January 18 2013, 4:00PM
“Turn it into gravel and place a "Free Parking" sign on it.”
by thomas1996
Friday, January 18 2013, 3:24PM
“Well surely even 'The Property Centre' would be out of their depth selling it!
Just think how many 'For Sale' boards they would put up all around it!”