<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br>Sent from Richard Offen's iPhone</div><div><br>On 09/03/2011, at 10:47 PM, Simon Linford <<a href="mailto:simonhippo@8MZGLDSnWdp3w7Dk4BZbcs43XElZdsZHxssa9X190QWqvzGClBi8GljZ3AKknBaGD92pKe3JfDM_jTXf6Q.yahoo.invalid">simonhippo@8MZGLDSnWdp3w7Dk4BZbcs43XElZdsZHxssa9X190QWqvzGClBi8GljZ3AKknBaGD92pKe3JfDM_jTXf6Q.yahoo.invalid</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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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. </p><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div><div><br>In western Australia we call this 'dereliction by design'. </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position:relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text"><div>Because land here is generally far more valuable than the building on it<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> (a strange state of affairs in a country so large)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">, owners allow a listed building deteriorate to the extent where demolition<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">is the only viable option. The property can then be subdivided and a vast profit made on the speculation.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>R<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position:relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position:relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text"><div><hr id="stopSpelling"></div></div></div></div><br>
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