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Topic ID 793
03/11/2004 by glp
The Old Goods Yard
After much buggering about it seems that work has finally started on the old Goods yard site and, more importantly, the old goods shed. Now for the mystery. The site was originally bought by Rialto (they who built such appealing places as the Old Vicarage) who earlier this year were taken over by Fairview Estates. Fairview had a reputation for putting up houses that were financially within the reach of first time buyers (rabbit hutches in all but name but no breeding space)and it seemed that a reasonably decent quality of building might go on the goods yard site. Now the Rialto signs have come down to be replacwed by Fairview signs which have been removed and replaced by signs claiming that the development is by George Wimpey (the builders not the burger joint). So who owns what? Is the end product going to be any better? Are the resulting dwellings (let's face it they're probably not going to be houses) going to be affordable to young local people?
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Reply ID 7273
03/11/2004 by bolly
Probably be s****y flash flats for commuting singles
Reply ID 7274
03/11/2004 by bolly
????? I didn't use a swear word, honest![:I] its just a normal word, but if you detatch the s from the begining it could be quite rude!. The part thats screening for fowl language is obviously getting carried away. anyway s*anky flats is what I posted, you can see what letter is making it offensive[:)]
Reply ID 7292
05/11/2004 by jez_p
so it will probably censor s****horpe too
scun thorpe that is [;)]
Reply ID 7299
06/11/2004 by Rachael
Rialto bought the site and developed the new car park for Ware Station and I thought that they had then sold the site direct to George Wimpey, but if you look on the Fairview Website they cite Station Road, Ware as one of their developments which is 'coming soon'. There are no George Wimpey building sites in or around Ware on the George Wimpey website so the flags appear to be more up to date than their publicity!
Reply ID 7301
06/11/2004 by Silent
As I understand it Rialto was brought out by Fairview, while they was 'advertising’ the forthcoming development hence why there has been signs by both building companies in the last year. George Wimpy must has brought it off Fairview.
The old goods yard shed is a different venture and is being re-developed by none of the above companies.
And due to seeing the plans both developments will be flats, of which none will be affordable housing as enough was built in Crane’s Mead so none need to be built on the old car park.
Another concern I have is with the junction of Station road and Viaduct road which is bad enough at present with the cars on Viaduct road approaching the junction at high speeds, that when people have moved into these flats and the Station Car park is moved back that a roundabout or traffic lights will be needed to aide joining Viaduct road safely for all concerned.
Reply ID 7307
08/11/2004 by glp
Me thinks that the confusion is either deliberate or financial. George Wimpey acquired part of the Canada Fields site in Turnford from Fairview who acquired the Rialto site. Likewise George Wimpey acquired a great chunk of the old MAFF site opposite 100 Acre from Fairview. Is it that Fairview, having acquired Rialto, are short of readies so are selling parcels of land, or is this a scheme designed by certain developers to confuse both the planners and the public? As regards it being a different developer for the old goods shed, I think the confusion here may lie in the fact that a building contractor has large boards in place, although I doubt that he is the developer. Both Rialto and George Wimpey contract out their building work and, if the truth be known, so do Fairview. So what's the story?
By the way, Fairview (or whoever) are trying to bail out of their obligations to provide so-called affordable or social housing on the goods yard site despite having moved the goalposts a couple of times when they did Crane Mead. It seems that developers don't like anything that damages their profit despite having legal obligations to provide lower cost housing on some developments. If they get away with this they'll probably get away with it on a much larger development which, of course, would involve them building a larger number of affordable homes.
Reply ID 7453
20/11/2004 by Dr Nick
Wimpey are in the process of buying the site off Fairview.
However, the old goods yard shed is owned by a company called Sandhill Homes Ltd. As far as i've heard the shed will be a development of about 24 LUXURY flats and a shop unit.
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