Work starts on £25 million Greyfriars site in Gloucester
WORK has started on the £25million Greyfriars development in the city centre.
Diggers and workmen could be seen today at the former Gloscat site in Brunswick Road.
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Workmen on site. Photo by Ian Spencer
The project by Linden Homes will see 254 new homes created.
Ian Spencer, owner of the Oasis Cafe in Southgate Street said: "There's about six workmen in high vis jackets there and big digger making lots of noise."It's excellent news for me.
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"Hopefully the building work will means lots of new customers for me and other traders.
"Then when the homes are built it will pull the centre of gravity of the city to this area."
Plans for the massive development were given the nod by Gloucester City Council in January despite grievances the number of affordable homes had been slashed from 64 to 32.
The huge scheme – which will see 2.4 hectares of land transformed – involves the demolition of the entire site, new homes, green space, an open area in front of the friary, a cafe, office space and a restaurant.
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9 Comments
by Studley1975
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 12:13AM
“Ah More Houses For The Gulls To Dump On, Marvellous!”
by honslknjklyt
Monday, March 11 2013, 9:35PM
“A friend of mine is in social housing. She has lived in her social housing flat for about 30 years. She is happy, she is secure and when I speak to her about wanting to own a home or other people, she really cannot see what the obsession is in this country with everyone wanting to own their own home. She thinks we are materialistic etc.
BUT there is an obsession in this country because unless we are in social housing like she is, we cannot really call the houses we live in a real home. We are reluctant to report repairs because the landlords will just put the rent up to cover it and we can be evicted in a short period of time.
If we had the security of 12 months notice to leave, then that would give us time to find somewhere else, perhaps in the same area and so on. Another friend of mine has just been evicted with 1 months notice as his landlord decided to sell. I also know a lady who this has happened to THREE times. If we had the security of a tennancy for 30 years then we would not want or feel the need to buy our own homes. All we want is a house we can call home. Why should that be the privelege of social housing tennants and rich people?”
by dontyaknow
Monday, March 11 2013, 9:10PM
“The main problem with 'Affordable housing' is that by definition the rest of the houses on the site will be unaffordable to the Average worker.
This is one of the problems in this country. HOUSE PRICES ARE TOO HIGH. They make us uncompetitive as a nation, it is little wonder manufacturing has all but vanished to china and people do not have anything left at the end of the month once they have paid their eye watering mortgages.
The housing market over the past 15 years has been one big pyramid scheme, and of course these 'affordable homes' are just another scam to keep house prices high. "Can't afford to buy a home? they buy half of one". Where will it end? People buying 10%?
Absolutely ridiculous situation.”
by honslknjklyt
Monday, March 11 2013, 8:55PM
“Public sector workers says it all!
What about private sector workers and those running small businesses and sole traders and such?”
by TimMessanger
Monday, March 11 2013, 8:53PM
“Affordable housing is also available to public sector workers like nurses, honslknjklyt/darrellglos I hope you don't need to visit hospital because nurses etc also fall into this sector!”
by honslknjklyt
Monday, March 11 2013, 6:00PM
“When they say affordable, it means those who are on benefits or qualify for social housing. The rest of us have to work harder to subside that.”
by darrellglos
Monday, March 11 2013, 5:36PM
“Dont want to many affordable houses, It will only be filled with people who drag the area down”
by GloucesterLad
Monday, March 11 2013, 5:35PM
“@FreeRadical1 I'm glad they're starting this but i agree with that but why would only 32 of the 234 homes are affordable and the rest are unaffordable.”
by FreeRadical1
Monday, March 11 2013, 5:14PM
“The developers are getting a £10 million government grant to redevelop this site, and yet only 32 of the homes will be classified as 'affordable'. Does anyone else see a problem with that? If they were paying for the whole deal themselves, then I wouldn't complain, but they're getting taxpayers money to develop the site.”