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<DIV><SPAN class=531193716-09032011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Looks
good, doesn't it - but there's a sting in the tail. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=531193716-09032011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The owner can
turn round and serve a purchase notice on the local authority, in effect saying
"I can't afford to do up the building - do it yourselves!". Few local
authorities are in a position to take on and restore difficult buildings like
this, especially at the moment. So it's hardly ever used.
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<DIV><SPAN class=531193716-09032011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>For
any historic building to have a long term future it has to have a viable end
use. Church to residential conversions are difficult and expensive to
do. They rarely make much money - and in my opinion a
lot of them don't work very well either, either in terms of the living
accommodation they provide or in terms of preserving the character of the
original building. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=531193716-09032011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Peter
Rivet</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>John H Allen<BR><B>Sent:</B> 09 March 2011 16:14<BR><B>To:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Bell Historians] Digest
Number 2815-Holy Trinity, Bolton<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><SPAN
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the Local Authority will use its Statutory Powers:-<O></O></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<H2><A name=u></A><B><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">5.
REPAIRS</SPAN></FONT><O></O></B></H2>
<P><FONT face=Verdana color=#330000 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #330000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">5.1 If a local
authority consider that a listed building is not being properly preserved they
may serve on the owner a 'repairs notice' under Section 115 of the Town and
Country Planning Act 1971. This notice must specify the works which the
authority consider reasonably necessary for the proper preservation of the
building and explain that if it is not complied with within 2 months the
authority may make a compulsory purchase order and submit it to the Secretary
of State for confirmation. If the owner deliberately neglects the building in
order to redevelop the site, the local authority may not only acquire the
building, but may do so at a price which excludes the value of the site for
redevelopment. If the building is unoccupied, the authority can serve a notice
on the owner giving him 7 days' notice of their intention to carry out repairs
which are urgently necessary to secure its preservation and recover the cost
from the owner. These powers may also be exercised by the Secretary of State.
Owners of listed buildings can, in some cases, get grants or loans to help
them with repairs and maintenance.</SPAN></FONT><O></O></P>
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<ST1>bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</ST1>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>fartwell2000<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday 09 March 2011
16:09<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
<ST1>bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</ST1><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [<ST1>Bell</ST1> Historians]
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><BR>--- In <A
href="mailto:bellhistorians%40yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</A>,
Simon Linford <simonhippo@...> wrote:<BR>><BR>> <BR>> Holy
Trinity Bolton is not going to be turned into luxury apartments because it
doesn't stack up financially. And the planning consent has expired (or is
about to). I nearly bought it for a pound about nine months ago but concluded
that was about 250k too much. <BR>> It is a sad lesson that if you don't
keep empty churches wind and watertight they deteriorate beyond the point of
no return within about a year of a decent size hole getting in the roof. Which
is what has happened. Seddons, who own it, stopped doing any maintenance
shortly after a surveyor stepped backwards through a trap door in the tower
which he had left opened and killed himself. <BR>> Simon<BR>> <BR>>
<BR><BR>I wouldn't have thought that "Starter homes" would have made much
profit on the site, considering how much work WAS required before the death of
the surveyor in 06/07. I remember a comment from the HSE that it was thought
that a trap was open, but covered with ply wood and the surveyor fell
through.<BR><BR>I wonder what will happen to the place now? I think its a
grade 2 listed building.<BR><BR>Alan<O></O></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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