Sandonia Cinema - Stafford - Feb 20

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Partial demolition has taken place before the council put a stop to it. Just can't see it getting past this kind of damage, think it's time to wave it goodbye.

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Excellent pictures once again Mr B G Sir, up to your usual very high standards. That old cinema is a beaut, looks like the roof won't be around for too long so just as well you have a record of the old place.
Cheers ! KM
 
sadlerwells said:
Following on from objections to demolition last October :
https://www.expressandstar.com/news...ear-old-cinema-met-with-dozens-of-objections/
… yet another application has been submitted :
https://www.expressandstar.com/news...ousing-plans-for-former-stafford-cinema-site/The final comment made me smile, from the resident who wants to plan their sleep around any building work as they "already have doorstop sellers and religious groups ringing my buzzer waking me up unnecessarily"!
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yeah thats brilliant that one
 
https://www.expressandstar.com/news...-object-to-demolition-plans-for-former-cinemaAnd still it drags on. Eventually these place just become so damaged that it's nigh on impossible to save anything. It would have been good if they'd saved the frontage alongside any new developments. It can be done. Over ten years ago I saw the demolition surrounding the iconic Linotype buildings alongside the Bridgewater Canal near Altrincham, and was worried that it would all disappear, but the developers have incorporated the old with the new. Some of the larger of the new buildings have been modelled on the original turn-of-the-last-century buildings in the 'village' that Linotype built for their workers.
First photo shows some of the old factory, second shows old with new.
 

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sadlerwells said:
https://www.expressandstar.com/news...-object-to-demolition-plans-for-former-cinemaAnd still it drags on. Eventually these place just become so damaged that it's nigh on impossible to save anything. It would have been good if they'd saved the frontage alongside any new developments. It can be done. Over ten years ago I saw the demolition surrounding the iconic Linotype buildings alongside the Bridgewater Canal near Altrincham, and was worried that it would all disappear, but the developers have incorporated the old with the new. Some of the larger of the new buildings have been modelled on the original turn-of-the-last-century buildings in the 'village' that Linotype built for their workers.
First photo shows some of the old factory, second shows old with new.
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crazy aint it but you are right it will be dragged on to the point its deemed unsafe or something & gets pulled anyway!
 
BikinGlynn said:
crazy aint it but you are right it will be dragged on to the point its deemed unsafe or something & gets pulled anyway!
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It certainly is crazy! The two buildings in the Linotype photos only just managed to survive. Having sympathetically converted the huge office building retaining lots of original stuff, they were on the point of demolishing the engine room and chimney until protests got them Grade II listing last year.
 
sadlerwells said:
It certainly is crazy! The two buildings in the Linotype photos only just managed to survive. Having sympathetically converted the huge office building retaining lots of original stuff, they were on the point of demolishing the engine room and chimney until protests got them Grade II listing last year.
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sadlerwells said:
https://www.expressandstar.com/news...-object-to-demolition-plans-for-former-cinemaAnd still it drags on. Eventually these place just become so damaged that it's nigh on impossible to save anything. It would have been good if they'd saved the frontage alongside any new developments. It can be done. Over ten years ago I saw the demolition surrounding the iconic Linotype buildings alongside the Bridgewater Canal near Altrincham, and was worried that it would all disappear, but the developers have incorporated the old with the new. Some of the larger of the new buildings have been modelled on the original turn-of-the-last-century buildings in the 'village' that Linotype built for their workers.
First photo shows some of the old factory, second shows old with new.
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"Affordable housing plans for derelict Stafford cinema site described as 'eyesore'"​

Does anyone building UNaffordable housing? If so, does it become immediately derelict, and ripe
for exploration?

So the second photo shows what "affordable housing" looks like!
 
Hayman said:

"Affordable housing plans for derelict Stafford cinema site described as 'eyesore'"​

Does anyone building UNaffordable housing? If so, does it become immediately derelict, and ripe
for exploration?

So the second photo shows what "affordable housing" looks like!
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There isn't much housing that is genuinely affordable these days, not for anyone setting out on the ladder.
 
sadlerwells said:
There isn't much housing that is genuinely affordable these days, not for anyone setting out on the ladder.
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Partly because of the lack of good quality property to rent. It seems only Anglo-Saxons are obsessed with owning their homes. A friend whose ancestry is Swiss/Polish and who was a highly-paid banker in Switzerland and the UK has never owned a home. Another person I knew working for the UN in Washington DC was content to rent a flat - because it is the norm to provide good quality accommodation to rent, and both landlords and tenants respect each other.
 

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