Eyesore site up for sale
 

'PRIVATE cash is needed to transform an eyesore Hyndburn gateway into an up-market canalside development according to the council’s leader.'

'The Hargreaves Warehouse site remains a blot on the Accrington, Church and Oswaldtwistle border despite regeneration plans being drawn up in 2004.'

'The Grade II listed building is currently up for auction with a guide price of £130,000, but its fate now hinges on attracting the right developer, according to council leader Peter Britcliffe.'

Eyesore Hyndburn regeneration site up for sale (From Lancashire Telegraph)

There are some comments from a former Accy Web member, regarding the planned redevelopment at Church.

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no comment of yon mons is worth using in the loo IMHO.

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Just like the Con Club and Canon Street Church this building has been allowed to fall into disrepair. The council need to keep on top of the upkeep of these listed buildings, as Graham has pointed out you can't just demolish them

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Yes you can. If no one wants to buy it and it is an eyesore it should be taken from the owner and demolished.

I am fed up of properties looking like that because the owner can not or will not keep them looking decent.

Our own MP says that any investor would pay out more than he would get back in. That makes it worthless so it should be compulsory purchased for nothing and demolished.

That whole area is one big ugly mess.

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The reason it's fallen into disrepair is because it is no longer profitable, if a use could have been found for it, it would have been found long before it ended up in this dilapidated state.
Lets not waste time or money it and the sadly demised Commercial Hotel next door need to be removed, not renovated.
:(

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I don't think i remember a time in my life when the Commercial was open, that building should have been pulled down a long time ago along with the red bricked building across the road, that part of Church always looks dark and dismal

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Much as I hate to say it, I'm sure the area would look better if it was demolished and the canal opened up, that crossroads was always dark and gloomy

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Its the same with a lot of these properties, especially those under protection orders, if organisations such as English Heritage when these builds to be kept on then by all means find the money for there upkeep, and unless they are prepared to do that, but out, a prime example is Rhyddings Mill a total eyesore, and for what

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If it became a public hazard....then would it be permissable to demolish it on grounds of health and safety?

I agree with most of the posters on here......it is an eyesore and the whole area needs to be looked at......it gives a terrible impression when coming into the borough.

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Perhaps it's a great relief for those leaving though? Knowing when they see that, at last, they are finally getting out of Hyndburn.
:eek:

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Less, you have a point there!

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Errr...Less...where's your sense of geography? The warehouse is pretty central to Hyndburn...two miles west to the Intack boundary with Blackburn, two and a bit miles east to the boundary with Burnley, two miles north to the boundary with Ribble Valley and a couple of miles south to whatever lies beyond Ossy.

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Errr... Tealeaf...For someone being precise you didn't read my post very well.

I said finally getting out, I didn't say that they were out.

If they came along Blackburn Rd around 4 o'clock to reach that spot it would no doubt have taken three quarters of an hour from town, the last two miles, would be a short journey in comparison.

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He was speaking like a labour councillor after may :D

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Lazy buggar. Try walking. Railway pub to Church Commercial = 17 minutes. You'll even get fit, unlike those lazy, moaning fatso's, stuck in their cars and doing nowt only polluting Church's clean air.

In my yoof I used to walk to the Commercial from the railway, couldn't have done it in 17 minutes though, there were plenty more watering holes to call into on the way. Now sadly, the ones left between those two points aren't worth bothering with.

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Some photos here

4 Photos of [Hargreaves Warehouse] , within 10km of Accrington, Lancashire :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!

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Have any nearby industries left recently?

I thought the problem the last time redevelopment was mooted, a swanky marina and apartments, was that it actually couldn't contain any residential accommodation, because of the proximity to hazardous chemical production.

Has this changed?

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I am sure that if the Commercial HOTEL was still open would still be able to use its accommodation because it is a HOTEL.
Holland bank house is a residential home and is just as close.

The reason for rejecting the Hargreaves warehouse hotel was the chlorine storage at Blythes.
The most probable chance of a leak is when changing the chlorine cylinders BUT this is only done during the day. The prevailing wind would move any gas release towards the area of Church Kirk,
Therefore, no reason for rejecting the hotel idea

As for the old Blair electrical, red brick building, knock it down now.

P.S.
As it seems to be the centre of Hyndburn you must be heading out of Hyndburn if you are going away from it.

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the condition of the con club is a disgrace. everytime u ride up the escalators to tesco you just see the smashed in windows. the church still looks a lil better

personally if they get to the state of the commercial/hargreaves then it should be allowed to be knocked down or else years later it'll still be there as an eyesore

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its such a shame that these buildings are left to rot. I hope that someone does try to redevelop them as Hyndburn really is a lovely place. I agree about the con club, not a nice view when you go in the shiny new tesco. Money is tight everywhere though. :(

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The Con is riddled with dry rot from top to bottom and would cost more to refurbish than the buildings worth

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don't worry, our councilors will be working closely with Barnfield and no doubt it will be developed once the funds are in place, nudge nudge wink wink

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That was in days of Yore duggie

I'm sorry but when these buildings where built, they had a use, they have fallen into disrepair because they are no longer useful.

Please don't force us to maintain what should be removed for something useful.
However if you can afford to maintain what the owner has abandoned then get on with it, I and many others find such projects a leech on real priorities.

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I do wonder how much money was made out of the reclamation work when AGS, Sacred Heart and all the old terraced house were demolished - all stone built and with the majority of the backyards flagged with stone - have you seen the cost of a york, or similar, stone flag? Even recovered Nori bricks are worth quite a price.
My guess is that some people made a lot of money out of all the demolition.