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02-08-2010, 18:06
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
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Sometime English Heritage can be a real pain in the backside
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03-08-2010, 13:23
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
Jaysay...you idiot...I was making reference to LT's on-line version of the story, where the paper missed out the 'e' from Care Home...so it originally read CAR HOME. They have since corrected it - but too late to correct the link.
Anyway, English Heritage usually do an excellent job...that's one quango I would not like to see abolished by your Tory mates.
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10-12-2010, 10:55
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
English Heritage is a jobs for the boys set up and it's costing us millions!
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10-12-2010, 10:56
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
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10-12-2010, 11:05
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
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English Heritage is a jobs for the boys set up and it's costing us millions!
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Absolutely correct wadey, they're wonderful at spending other peoples money, like keeping that eyesore that is now Rhyddings Mill, should have been pulled down after the first fire
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11-12-2010, 12:21
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
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Absolutely correct wadey, they're wonderful at spending other peoples money, like keeping that eyesore that is now Rhyddings Mill, should have been pulled down after the first fire
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Another eyesore that they want to keep is the Hargreaves Warehouse at Church traffic lights. I know it is part of our Industrial Heritage but the cost of renovating it huge .
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11-12-2010, 15:21
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
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Another eyesore that they want to keep is the Hargreaves Warehouse at Church traffic lights. I know it is part of our Industrial Heritage but the cost of renovating it huge .
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The thing is IF thy want these buildings maintaining and refurbishing they should find the funding
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11-12-2010, 16:15
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
I can't understand what all the fuss is about, was the main objection relating to the new building height - 3 storey, but the existing building is 3 storey its a split level site, so what's the problem
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16-01-2011, 08:42
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
Thought someone would have picked this article up,
Row over Baxenden flats plan that ?looks like a prison? (From Lancashire Telegraph)
They could add pitched roofs in a few years time to finish the project off. how much did HBC spend on consultants to provide a design brief, was it £20,000 what a waste of our money
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16-01-2011, 12:57
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
Must admit, Park, it is rather ugly.
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16-01-2011, 13:29
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
If they stick a mosque (with minaret) up one corner, it would an excellent asylum centre for Afgans and Iraqis.
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16-01-2011, 13:34
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
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If they stick a mosque (with minaret) up one corner, it would an excellent asylum centre for Afgans and Iraqis.
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Can't see the residents of Baxenden ever accepting this idea..
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16-01-2011, 13:37
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
Kate, I would go further than that, and say it is an eyesore....the derelict building looks better than the one they plan to build.
Hideous!
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16-01-2011, 13:49
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
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Kate, I would go further than that, and say it is an eyesore....the derelict building looks better than the one they plan to build.
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Can't understand the red brick at all as surrounding buildings up there are of a stone nature (sorry, don't know technical term), you know what I mean though, I'm sure.
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16-01-2011, 14:44
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Re: HILLTOP NURSING HOME, Manchester Road, Acc
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Can't understand the red brick at all as surrounding buildings up there are of a stone nature (sorry, don't know technical term), you know what I mean though, I'm sure.
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Don't think they are red brick kate, look similar to the bricks used on the existing building.
Suggestion - why don't they leave the existing buildings up do a complete internal strip out including all internal walls and start again using the existing building shell just as they would coverting an old mill to flats, would that not solve all the problems.
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