Planning permission has been given to build flats in Heaton Park. Heaton Park in Prestwich is one of the few city centre green spaces we have left.
more greenland stolen..
The application for a five-storey block of 11 apartments was approved on the site of the former school house on the Bury Old Road boundary of the park.
Plans for the development show an ultra-modern residential complex in grey metal and natural stone with purple panels similar to other new residential developments springing up in the Prestwich and Whitefield areas of Bury.
Manchester City Council has sold the building rights for the land to a private developer. The rights have been bought by Olnato, the development arm of Ardent Estates estate agents of Sedgley Park. Ardent Estates have since submitted proposals to Bury Council's Planning Committee, which has now agreed the scheme.
Although lawyers for Manchester City Council have insisted that no development can go ahead without their agreement and they maintain power to veto the plans which had earlier been rejected by the city council, Michael Furst a representative of Ardent Estates says he is unaware of any opposition from Manchester City Council, who he says have been 'paid very nicely' for the development rights.
He said: "We are building what the council wants. They want to have something there because it's a derelict site and the council wants to make money.
"As far as I know Manchester City Council doesn't oppose it. They approved the basic concept of the building but have some concerns about how it is going to look. We have been negotiating with them to make them happy.
"We're very confident. Now we have planning permission in place we are putting the plans out to tender for building. If the city council wasn't happy with the prospect then basically they are thieves because they sold the option to build on that land.
"If the city council decides that they don't want to allow appartments to be built on their land they are going to have to answer for what they have done to us. They will have deceived us. What would they rather have there, a filling station, another Lidl or a McDonalds?"
The approval has shocked members of the Heaton Park Trust who found out about the plan only weeks ago but had been assured that no such scheme would be allowed.
The application for a five-storey block of 11 apartments was approved on the site of the former school house on the Bury Old Road boundary of the park.
Plans for the development show an ultra-modern residential complex in grey metal and natural stone with purple panels similar to other new residential developments springing up in the Prestwich and Whitefield areas of Bury.
Manchester City Council has sold the building rights for the land to a private developer. The rights have been bought by Olnato, the development arm of Ardent Estates estate agents of Sedgley Park. Ardent Estates have since submitted proposals to Bury Council's Planning Committee, which has now agreed the scheme.
Although lawyers for Manchester City Council have insisted that no development can go ahead without their agreement and they maintain power to veto the plans which had earlier been rejected by the city council, Michael Furst a representative of Ardent Estates says he is unaware of any opposition from Manchester City Council, who he says have been 'paid very nicely' for the development rights.
He said: "We are building what the council wants. They want to have something there because it's a derelict site and the council wants to make money.
"As far as I know Manchester City Council doesn't oppose it. They approved the basic concept of the building but have some concerns about how it is going to look. We have been negotiating with them to make them happy.
"We're very confident. Now we have planning permission in place we are putting the plans out to tender for building. If the city council wasn't happy with the prospect then basically they are thieves because they sold the option to build on that land.
"If the city council decides that they don't want to allow appartments to be built on their land they are going to have to answer for what they have done to us. They will have deceived us. What would they rather have there, a filling station, another Lidl or a McDonalds?"
The approval has shocked members of the Heaton Park Trust who found out about the plan only weeks ago but had been assured that no such scheme would be allowed.
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20.08.2005 17:04
» Name: Ardent Estates Ltd
» Address: 11 BURY NEW ROAD
» Town: MANCHESTER
» County: LANCASHIRE
» Postcode: M25 9JZ
0161 772 0228
fax 0161 772 0660
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HMM
21.08.2005 21:18
You can have uncontroled imigration or green fields, but you can not have both.. unless you think they should live in tents
Dolly The Sheeple
Keep on point
22.08.2005 15:08
Why oh why do some people try to link every issue on indy to immigration?
I took the initial report to be one drawing together the spending of millions of £'s of public money to develop a park with the sale of local authority assets that will benefit from the redevelopment of said park. These flats will not have any association with affordability or (like them or not) RSL’s.
Max
And Buile Hill Park Salford too....
22.08.2005 19:01
Just to highlight the scale of this problem, Salford City Council has sold one of its old council buildings (a beautiful gatehouse previously used for training in Buile Hill Park) which is now becoming "The Gatehouse". Heres the advertisers blurb.
"Chaseley Field is an exclusive development of seven luxurious, two bedroom apartments. Set within the leafy urban park land of Buile Hill, Manchester. Overlooking playing fields, Buile Hill Park and Seedley Park these prestigious homes are built to the highest standard with a generous interior specification and offer secluded comfort only minutes from the cosmopolitan city centre of Manchester. Having the benefit of gated access, a feature fountain, communal garden lawns and reversed parking, these apartments offer a superior lifestyle to home buyers who require a peaceful environment alongside easy access to the many amenities and leisure facilities available in a thriving, modern metropolis.
This time its Whispers development.
These attacks on city parks are coming faster and faster and sadly, usually the builders win. Well, with contracts worth millions, which city council is going to walk away from that...
heather
and Cliff Park Leeds....
22.08.2005 19:30
heather
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