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certain parts of the UK – Controlled Ruination!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<st1:PersonName w:st="on">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</st1:PersonName>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Richard Offen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday 09 March 2011
15:52<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Bell</st1:place></st1:City> Historians] Digest Number 2815</span></font><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On 09/03/2011, at 10:47 PM, Simon Linford <<a
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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In <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">western Australia</st1:place></st1:State>
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it<span class=apple-style-span> (a strange state of affairs in a country
so large), owners allow a listed building deteriorate to the extent where
demolitionis the only viable option. The property can then be subdivided
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