[Bell Historians] Digest Number 2815

[Richard Offen]

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On 09/03/2011, at 10:47 PM, Simon Linford <simonhippo at Otxr5M9inm7-FJwXhe5n3XU6MFShK1DyRloBYT4Q2-K3ROFQchEbeeTwxGhbOzenYzG_l5HiC-63uedAyJp_.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> In western Australia we call this 'dereliction by design'.  

> Because land here is generally far more valuable than the building on it (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 and a vast profit made on the speculation.

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