Nurses’ flats to be demolished (From York Press)
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Nurses’ flats at Bootham Park Court to be demolished
9:09am Wednesday 2nd May 2012 in News
By Richard Catton, richard.catton@thepress.co.uk
Brian Golding
A DERELICT nursing accommodation block at York Hospital is to be be demolished this summer, NHS bosses have said.
Bootham Park Court will be knocked down to make way for “new facilities” at the Wigginton Road site after City of York Council’s plans to turn the site into temporary accommodation proved too expensive.
Brian Golding, director of estates and facilities at the hospital trust, said: “We have been given planning permission to demolish the former nursing accommodation at Bootham Park Court, and we are now in the process of appointing a contractor.
“We hope to complete the demolition work this summer.
“The Bootham Park Court site forms part of our longer-term development plan for the hospital, with a view to building new facilities to house some of our services.”
Coun Tracey Simpson-Lang, City of York Council’s housing chief, fought to have the site renovated and turned over to the Property Guardian’ scheme, whereby tenants would live in the building on a short-term basis until its future was decided.
The scheme was scrapped when it was found that it would cost £5 million to bring the building up to habitable condition because it would have needed new windows and a new roof.
Coun Simpson-Laing said: “I’m pleased that the site is coming into development but it was a shame that Property Guardian didn’t think it was appropriate for use in the time it was empty.”
The accommodation block comprises hundreds of former nursing flats but was taken out of use in 2009 when the hospital stopped homing nurses on site.
Comments(10)
Ignatius Lumpopo
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10:18am Wed 2 May 12
Stan2Attention
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10:49am Wed 2 May 12
Mr Crabtree
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2:00pm Wed 2 May 12
I look at her in this way - she is trying; she tries my patience with the twaddle she spouts. 'There was never a 50% target' (for affordable/social housing policy) being a classic.
Like the 50% target, she is a failure. Her support for ill-conceived, damaging policies like the 50% target, has left York in the worst imaginable housing mess. It is time her tenure was demolished and crushed along with her policies, and replaced with someone who makes things (new housing) happen instead of stopping anything being built !
gravitydrips
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2:17pm Wed 2 May 12
monkeyhanger
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7:05pm Wed 2 May 12
Yorkie-Clifton
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9:35pm Wed 2 May 12
piaggio1
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10:57pm Wed 2 May 12
er, nail on head ,springs to mind
the butler
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7:05pm Thu 3 May 12
Whis1962
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12:43pm Fri 4 May 12
lezyork1966 says...
9:57am Wed 2 May 12
inside will be a mess, but if you build new, then inside will be a mess...
how hard and costly could it have been to gut them back to empty shells over the cost of knocking them down to build new empty shells?
no doubt when it happens there will not be built to a standard needed for temporary accommodation and cheap housing but to something that can be rented out for quite a bit more....