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Saturday 22 August 2015

Pictures: The soon-to-be-lost view from Grimsby's East Marsh tower blocks | Grimsby Telegraph

Pictures: The soon-to-be-lost view from Grimsby's East Marsh tower blocks | Grimsby Telegraph




Surely demolition isn't the right solution for these blocks of flats.

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Shoreline-turn-2-5m-bid-Grimsby-s-high-rise/story-26555223-detail/story.html

Shoreline is the housing association that bought these four blocks of flats from the local council.

"
The Chinese property group YU has been told it cannot buy the high-rise flats – due to be demolished – on Grimsby's East Marsh.
The Chinese investors offered to pay £2.5 million for the blocks and planned to modernise them and rent them out privately.
But today the board of Shoreline said it had decided to proceed no further with the YU bid and is all set for demolition in 2017.
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The housing charity said it was concerned about the potential adverse impact on "the organisation's rental income in the immediate area".
Bosses added they could not see a way that this could be safely mitigated with any assurance."




 

 

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