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Topic ID 3130

12/10/2007 by Arty

Furnivall Place

New signs outside with the wording "only £495,000" How can £495,000 be "only?"


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Reply ID 45189

12/10/2007 by Marilyn

Cause its less than 1/2 a million I guess or like some of the houses currently for sale in Begeo nearer 1.5 million!


Reply ID 45207

12/10/2007 by furrybunny

Ah! but can they sell them, they are only worth that amount of money if people are silly enough to buy them! some houses in the Mercury this week have dropped by £15,000.00 or more.


Reply ID 45215

13/10/2007 by Leo Densian

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Originally posted by furrybunny
Ah! but can they sell them, they are only worth that amount of money if people are silly enough to buy them! some houses in the Mercury this week have dropped by £15,000.00 or more.
I see the house at £1.5m in St Andrews St is still on the market - must be several months now.


Reply ID 45224

13/10/2007 by furrybunny

Yes,Rupert only paid £950,000.00 for it and did no improvements, so quite a tidy profit, if he can sell at that price! but we are getting off topic, are the properties in question the ones behind the council houses in Hertingfordbury Road?? took ages to build, looks like they might have missed the boat where prices are concerned.


Reply ID 45227

14/10/2007 by Leo Densian

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Originally posted by furrybunny are the properties in question the ones behind the council houses in Hertingfordbury Road??
No - its the old County Hospital development [url]http://www.ashwellhomes.co.uk/furnivall/[/url]


Reply ID 45228

14/10/2007 by JohnSmith

http://www.ashwellhomes.co.uk/furnivall/site_plan.html Wonder how much the "affordable housing" is and does that make the other properties on the development "unaffordable"?


Reply ID 45236

14/10/2007 by furrybunny

Well it upsets me to think this was our County Hospital and now beening sold off, scandalous! it could have been incorporated into the new hospital


Reply ID 45292

16/10/2007 by Andrew

But we have a rather nice new hospital next to it, rather than the rabbit warren that was the old hospital. I imagine the new building is a lot easier to maintain and in return we have one of Hertford's most attractive buildings looking much better than it did, now that it is rid of all its 20th century accretions.


Reply ID 45297

16/10/2007 by Kitty Kat

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Originally posted by furrybunny
Well it upsets me to think this was our County Hospital and now beening sold off, scandalous! it could have been incorporated into the new hospital
Oh my - the renovation costs of the old building would have been horrendous. Last time I had an appointment there, there was a sign on the wall saying no one over 14stone should enter!! Bearing in mind it was the pre-natal and ante-natal unit, could have been a problem for some [:D]


Reply ID 45298

16/10/2007 by Forbes

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Originally posted by furrybunny Well it upsets me to think this was our County Hospital and now beening sold off, scandalous! it could have been incorporated into the new hospital
It was a win win situation for the NHS Trust, they sold the old building and the new one is rented from the company who built it. The NHS don't take ownership of the Hospital for about another 28 years.


Reply ID 45302

16/10/2007 by jez_p

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Originally posted by Kitty Kat
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Originally posted by furrybunny
Well it upsets me to think this was our County Hospital and now beening sold off, scandalous! it could have been incorporated into the new hospital
Oh my - the renovation costs of the old building would have been horrendous. Last time I had an appointment there, there was a sign on the wall saying no one over 14stone should enter!! Bearing in mind it was the pre-natal and ante-natal unit, could have been a problem for some [:D]
That would have been the Doctor's office that was little more than a wooden shed on the roof - it was draughty too if I remember.


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