WCC have finally had to pull their fingers out: https://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/...dition-1332695
WCC have finally had to pull their fingers out: https://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/...dition-1332695
So the tax payers are going to pick up the bill? Whilst I understand the urgency, I hope that steps are taken to recover the costs from the land owner.
Of course it'll fit, you just need a bigger hammer.
Looks like the hospital's going to be turned into housing; why preserve it for posterity when there's a few quid to be made?
https://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/...ousing-3210764
A compulsory purchase order has been approved for the site. The current owner's done nothing with the site for years, s/he isn't going to do anything with it now, despite WDC 'giving them another chance': https://www.warwickcourier.co.uk/new...ouncil-3396047
I honestly can't see what there is to restore from that old Leper Hospital, it looks unsalvageable to me. And what if it was restored and refurbished, will it just be a useless empty shell of a building?
If they propose to build flats or housing there, I don't think residents will be to happy about people poking around looking at rebuilt copy of the hospital, because that is all it will be, a replica of what it used to be. Then how can a replica be grade listed?
“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.”
- Lord Byron.
Funding's been secured to help restore the hospital: https://leamingtonobserver.co.uk/new...warwick-45657/
The 'Leper Hospital' title seems to have been dropped, though.
Archeological work's started prior to site being developed for residential use: https://stratfordobserver.co.uk/news...warwick-46469/
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