Blow-down date set for remaining Red Road blocks
August 3 2015
Contractor Safedem is currently undertaking preparatory work for the blow-downs, the precise date for which is being kept under wraps, following the explosive demise of two other blocks on the estate in 2012 and 2013.
David Fletcher, director of regeneration for GHA, said: "We're working very closely with our contractor and partners on plans to bring down all six remaining blocks in a single demolition later this year.
A public consultation into a housing-led regeneration scheme for the site will be held later this summer.
7 Comments
#1 Posted by Jimbob Tanktop on 3 Aug 2015 at 21:02 PM
If they were left alone, they would make a spectacular ruin. Just saying.
#2 Posted by Bobjim Toptank on 4 Aug 2015 at 06:33 AM
you mean as a monument to the Concrete modernist brigade?
#3 Posted by Jimbob Tanktop on 4 Aug 2015 at 10:36 AM
Could be. That's the thing about monuments: open to interpretation.
#4 Posted by Highrise on 5 Aug 2015 at 09:21 AM
Concrete modernist brigade? The're steel framed, read up. Probably more asbestos than concrete at one point
#5 Posted by Bob, Ag & Willie on 5 Aug 2015 at 10:29 AM
@Highrise
You're not a regular to these pages are you?
You're not a regular to these pages are you?
#6 Posted by FHM on 5 Aug 2015 at 13:30 PM
Great to see these terrible expressions of Architect's egos being torn down.
#7 Posted by Clive on 5 Aug 2015 at 14:17 PM
whilst i don't disagree that this particular building type, (in this location, for the demographic proposed for them) is a travesty, i don't think they exist, #FHM, purely as an expression of 'Architect Ego'. I' mpretty certain ,as with the majority of developments there are a multitude of factors resulting in a building type, other than the Architect's HB.
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