nexus6
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Post by nexus6 on Aug 6, 2023 9:25:21 GMT
So predictable and obvious.
There was a site here in Glasgow, renowned for its fires, that had a listed building where a dev wanted student housing. Lucky when it went on fire it wasn’t damaged too badly that it couldn’t be saved.
What then we’re the chances that a second fire would be suffered just weeks later?
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Post by geefe on Aug 6, 2023 9:41:38 GMT
Absolutely shit that it happens.
Would be an awful shame for new developments to catch fire.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Aug 6, 2023 10:22:36 GMT
The Crooked House site is actually a really shit site for homes. There's a single, long access road that goes past a couple of busy landfills. To be fair, that's why the pub was struggling.
Nobody will *want* to live down there and frankly it'll become a bit of a scum landlord ghetto.
Now that the damage is done I would rather it becomes an industrial site as it's more suited to that than homes.
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Post by sport✅ on Aug 6, 2023 11:07:13 GMT
The Crooked House site is actually a really shit site for homes. There's a single, long access road that goes past a couple of busy landfills. To be fair, that's why the pub was struggling. Nobody will *want* to live down there and frankly it'll become a bit of a scum landlord ghetto. Now that the damage is done I would rather it becomes an industrial site as it's more suited to that than homes. Sounds like the perfect spot for affordable housing... /£150k deposit needed |
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Post by X201 on Aug 6, 2023 11:59:20 GMT
The Crooked House site is actually a really shit site for homes. There's a single, long access road that goes past a couple of busy landfills. To be fair, that's why the pub was struggling. Nobody will *want* to live down there and frankly it'll become a bit of a scum landlord ghetto. Now that the damage is done I would rather it becomes an industrial site as it's more suited to that than homes. It's in a valley between two landfills, The north landfill that runs alongside the Himley Road is finished, they're still filling the southern one. The Crooked House would have been the doughnut in the hole in what will one day be a huge parcel of land that stretches from Stallings Lane to the Himley Road.
(I know the road names are meaningless to most of you)
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 6, 2023 12:01:36 GMT
Sounds like a good place to have a pub when the work around it is done.
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Post by X201 on Aug 6, 2023 12:03:12 GMT
It could have been a gold mine in the future.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Aug 6, 2023 12:38:17 GMT
X201Ah, wasn't sure if the landfills were both operational. Still just a shame to lose the historic building to an insurance arson (which I fully expect. There's a pub in the nearby Lower Gornal village that suffered the same fate after developers were refused permission for an Aldi or something)
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Post by sport✅ on Aug 6, 2023 13:09:37 GMT
X201 Ah, wasn't sure if the landfills were both operational. Still just a shame to lose the historic building to an insurance arson (which I fully expect. There's a pub in the nearby Lower Gornal village that suffered the same fate after developers were refused permission for an Aldi or something) Global warming init, wildfires everywhere these days. |
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Post by simple on Aug 6, 2023 17:47:48 GMT
A grade 2 listed building that had been student accommodation in the middle of a gentrifying area of Newcastle burned down a couple of months ago come to think of it www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-tyne-65856241What a tragic spate of accidents |
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Post by X201 on Aug 6, 2023 19:29:18 GMT
Amazing how thoroughly everything burnt. Even the building at the rear which is barely connected to the main building. The Crooked House: Fire rips through famed 'wonky' pub www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66421163Edit: And of course the public footpath that runs through the grounds will need to be closed “For safety purposes” |
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Post by cubby on Aug 6, 2023 19:50:09 GMT
We've got a property near us that's been sought after for development and over a period of 2 months all three separate parts mysteriously burnt down one by one. They even burnt down one part on bonfire night, clearly thinking that a stray firework might get blamed, except the fireworks were cancelled because of the torrential rain that night.
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Post by Danno on Aug 6, 2023 20:01:16 GMT
mikeck Is conspicuously absent.
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Post by mikeck on Aug 6, 2023 22:57:18 GMT
mikeck Is conspicuously absent. Bins were the gateway drug, turns out burning stuff is very moreish. |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Aug 6, 2023 23:02:21 GMT
wunty's claimed another soul
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Post by EMarkM on Aug 7, 2023 6:19:18 GMT
Damn it. When we got back together in 2017, after decades apart, The Crooked House was one of the first places that Mrs. M. and I went to together  A photo of us outside it appears each evening on our electronic photo frame here |
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Post by Dougs on Aug 7, 2023 7:19:48 GMT
That is quite sad. |
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Post by nexus6 on Aug 7, 2023 7:37:44 GMT
Electronic photo frame?
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Post by dfunked on Aug 7, 2023 8:08:19 GMT
The geefeness is spreading!
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Post by Danno on Aug 7, 2023 8:22:29 GMT
He fingered you too?
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Post by EMarkM on Aug 7, 2023 9:55:16 GMT
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Post by nexus6 on Aug 7, 2023 9:56:52 GMT
I was asking if this is what Dougs found so sad
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Post by dogbot on Aug 7, 2023 10:01:19 GMT
I mean, they're a bit 80s but I'm not sure if they're worth getting all emotional over.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Aug 7, 2023 10:27:31 GMT
Should have seen it coming really
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Post by X201 on Aug 7, 2023 20:33:51 GMT
The Crooked House petition if anyone is interested www.change.org/p/save-the-crooked-houseI suppose if the council see enough people sign it it may jolt them into actually getting a map out and finding where the north of the borough is. |
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Post by Danno on Aug 7, 2023 20:36:58 GMT
Didn't some developer get ordered to rebuild a pub brick by brick? Would love to see that happen here.
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Post by X201 on Aug 7, 2023 20:41:27 GMT
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Post by cubby on Aug 7, 2023 20:42:59 GMT
Yeah I think Phil Mitchell had to rebuild the Vic with his bare hands.
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Post by X201 on Aug 7, 2023 21:09:29 GMT
They’ve totally demolished what was left now! We’re dealing with some real scumbag here.  |
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Post by Danno on Aug 7, 2023 21:11:59 GMT
Fucking hell. I hope there's a similar outcome here, ideally with a judge that had the place as his local
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