We already have several nominations for the next Eyesore of the Month and we will be making a decision soon on which is most deserving of the award. If you have a building or site that you would like to be considered please email us as soon as possible with your nomination.
Re the Suite Factory, we have been unable to contact the owners, Hopemangreen Ltd. This company has gone into receivership (although several other companies still trade with very similar names.) We understand that the building (with planning permission) is now up for sale. If anyone has any more information on this we would be interested to hear from you.
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Sticks out like a sore thumb and can't see how it could ever be converted to anything else - knock it down and start againDG wrote:I passed the Suite Factory recently and it looks exactly the same as it has done for years. Was it actually sold or is there some problem? Remains a bit of an eyesore
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!!Suite Factory development
When we moved to Bath Street 4 years ago we got the plans for the development of the Suite Factory. We were told that it had planning permission (to be done within 5 years of the permission) to be converted into 5 flats. We have the plans from the council planning department, and if I knew how to do it I could scan in the drawing of the proposed development. Its four storeys high, with parking underneath (ground level) - only 4 spaces. Looks quite nice - anything would look nicer than how it is at the moment.
BUT - the flats next door and the houses at the back that face Tower Bank all share a lovely enclosed garden, like a wee private park. If the development goes ahead, that will not be so nice and private for No-s 28 - 38 and those on the other side.
I don't think the permission is valid now, but I don't know for sure.
BUT - the flats next door and the houses at the back that face Tower Bank all share a lovely enclosed garden, like a wee private park. If the development goes ahead, that will not be so nice and private for No-s 28 - 38 and those on the other side.
I don't think the permission is valid now, but I don't know for sure.
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Re: Suite Factory development
I loved that area growing up, it wasn't quite like the private park then.... but it was private, (when I grew up at 30) to remove that area would be a sincurlygirl wrote:BUT - the flats next door and the houses at the back that face Tower Bank all share a lovely enclosed garden, like a wee private park. If the development goes ahead, that will not be so nice and private for No-s 28 - 38 and those on the other side.
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Here's the photo and text from the original 'Eyesores' feature. Will try to get an update over the next few days.
Derelict and boarded up for years, this building is well deserving of its 'eyesore' status. Built in 1902 it was run at one time as a roller skating rink before being converted to a cinema around 1912, the Bungalow Electric Theatre, complete with cupola and entrance kiosk. It later changed hands but continued as a cinema, known from 1942 as the Victory Cinema, before finally closing its doors in 1956.
Since then it has served as an office furniture warehouse and a bed and sofa shop.
Planning permission was granted in 2000 to demolish the existing building and to erect a 4 storey block of flats. Since then nothing seems to have happened at all. The applicant was Hopemangreen Ltd. We will be asking them what they intend to do with the property and will keep you posted.
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Yes, buildings were designed to look good in Victorian days...It was harder to grease the palms then to get bad designed builtwangi wrote:In that you can see the sea looking down Bath St, which of course is now not so!Marya wrote:Great old photos Catz.Even Granny's Attic looks appealing....
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