Havebury plan to demolish High Street cottages
Friday, 5th July 2013.
A plan has come forward from Havebury Housing Partnership to knock down two well-known Haverhill properties – the cottages at the corner of High Street and Eden Road – and replace them with affordable housing.
The site is next to a £25,000 site in Eden Road which Havebury was gifted by St Edmundsbury Borough Council earlier this year, and would also be built on to create a total of six new homes.
The reason for demolition of the cottages is given as that they are in a poor state of repair, worsened by the render which has caused serious damp and more recently structural collapse. The building is currently being held up by structural supports, Havebury claims.
A design statement says their replacement with brick-faced flats would improve the street scene.
Havebury has applied to St Edmundsbury Borough Council for both permission to demolish, as they are in a conservation area, and permission to build the flats on the two sites.
The site is next to a £25,000 site in Eden Road which Havebury was gifted by St Edmundsbury Borough Council earlier this year, and would also be built on to create a total of six new homes.
The reason for demolition of the cottages is given as that they are in a poor state of repair, worsened by the render which has caused serious damp and more recently structural collapse. The building is currently being held up by structural supports, Havebury claims.
A design statement says their replacement with brick-faced flats would improve the street scene.
Havebury has applied to St Edmundsbury Borough Council for both permission to demolish, as they are in a conservation area, and permission to build the flats on the two sites.
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