Who wants to buy a water tower?

I appologise for a bit of drift here...
The old post office in Maldon has been vacant for the past 9 orso years. It is listed. Every planning approach is stopped by the one Jackie Longman, the Conservation officer. She has her own idea of what she wants the building to beused for and puts the down on everything else. However,her project needs public money and there is none so the building is falling down.....

Conservation officers are a law to themselves and highly unprofessional to boot. I woudn't touch a listed building these days.
 
Tomahawk said:
I appologise for a bit of drift here...
The old post office in Maldon has been vacant for the past 9 orso years. It is listed. Every planning approach is stopped by the one Jackie Longman, the Conservation officer. She has her own idea of what she wants the building to beused for and puts the down on everything else. However,her project needs public money and there is none so the building is falling down.....

Conservation officers are a law to themselves and highly unprofessional to boot. I woudn't touch a listed building these days.
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You are probably right about the problems with listed status, but I still fancy somewhere a little "different" to live. The Grand Designs water tower I was thinking of was the small one in the first series, not the "temple of excess" on recently.
If technically possible, I would consider buying an old coaster from Appolloduck and plonking it on a concrete pad to live in...........just joking.......possibly :)
Sometimes it's not about what you can sell it for, but just because you can, or because it's fun.

Which kind of brings us round in the circular argument that there needs to be controls to prevent nutters from doing stuff that would blight a neighbourhood.
 
Habebty said:
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Which kind of brings us round in the circular argument that there needs to be controls to prevent nutters from doing stuff that would blight a neighbourhood.
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On the face of it, that makes good sense, until you look at the conservation areas and listed buildings... With very few exceptions all our listed buildings were built without the involvement of planners. And all the designated conservation areas were built without council workers getting involved. Indeed the product of the planning department is crass mediocracy at best.
 
tillergirl said:
Blimey, you are brave. I have had one attempt to get planning permission from Colchester and never again. They are completely without logic and sense.
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Not that brave really. Once I have bought the property I will apply for planning permission to develop it as I want. When I get that permission, I will knock it down and build new. If I don't get permission, after doing a few little jobs on it, I am confident that I will be able to sell it for much more than I paid for it
 
Habebty said:
Amazing!! My father used to work in Priddy's Hard and I grew up just outside the main gate in Hardway. Probably saw that bunker from my bedroom window in what are now called Shell Pier Cottages I think.
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Looks like quite an investment possibility now, except the location isn't my cup of tea. Some water towers out there but that site's a bit hard to search for specifics
 
Not enough noughts

The Canterbury water tower sold for £120,000 a few years ago, as yet no development, but as the income from all the aerials,antennae, and assorted relays which are hung all over it is north of £15000 it's not a great problem.
 
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Vara said:
The Canterbury water tower sold for £120,000 a few years ago, as yet no development, but as the income from all the aerials,antennae, and assorted relays which are hung all over it is north of £15000 it's not a great problem.
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... until you move in and your brain is microwaved whilst you sleep!
 
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