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Topic ID 3978
01/12/2008 by Steve
Plans for old Police station site
Is the site this big???? Plans for the site have been submitted to the District Council...
"Demolition of existing Hertford Police Station buildings & construction of new mixed use development including 94 residential flats, 39 houses, an 80 Bed hotel, an 80 bed nursing home, small residential unit and a pct medical centre, together with underground surface and garage parking for 274 cars"
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See also...
http://www.zoggroup.com/
(select Zog Brownfield then no.11)
Zog are very aggressive in pursuing planning approval as I recall. They took their declined application for 130 flats on Mead Lane to the Planning Inspectorate and won, much to the town's detriment IMHO.
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Reply ID 57720
01/12/2008 by gemima124
if they can fit all that in i will be amazed! would also be nice if they are affordable and not astronomically priced, i don't want to rent all my life but these new properties are normally a shoe box with a hefty price tag, will be interesting to see!
Reply ID 57723
01/12/2008 by Pez
..and at least, for once, they've considered what appears to be a reasonable amount of parking space.
Reply ID 57746
01/12/2008 by hertford born and bred
You dont Realise how big the site is until you see a picture taken from the air.
Reply ID 57788
03/12/2008 by Old Charm
Although according to the Discover Hertford blog, the police have moved out of the site in April to their new one opposite Richard Hale School, the former still seems to be very occupied as does the car park. One can only assume that the civilian staff do not have enough room at the new headquarters. When the development proceeds I wonder where they and their cars will go, given the size of the new police station
Reply ID 57791
03/12/2008 by Arty
Wasn't there a huge Victorian eddifice on this site at the turn of the century? Anyone got the picture that appears in one of the Hertford books? Seem to recall it was pretty sustantial...
Reply ID 57792
03/12/2008 by Old Charm
I think there used to be a Vampire Jet airplane at the apex of the site for many years.
Reply ID 57793
03/12/2008 by Deveraux
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Originally posted by Old Charm
I think there used to be a Vampire Jet airplane at the apex of the site for many years.
You are correct - I can remember looking out for it every time I came into Hertford on the bus. It was an ATC base.
Reply ID 57794
03/12/2008 by Deveraux
quote:
Originally posted by Arty
Wasn't there a huge Victorian eddifice on this site at the turn of the century? Anyone got the picture that appears in one of the Hertford books? Seem to recall it was pretty sustantial...
Kingsmead School - there is a photo of it in this gallery
http://www.hertford.net/galleries/past/
two clicks on the arrow, middle image in the first column
Reply ID 57798
03/12/2008 by Marilyn
quote:
Originally posted by Arty
Wasn't there a huge Victorian eddifice on this site at the turn of the century? Anyone got the picture that appears in one of the Hertford books? Seem to recall it was pretty sustantial...
Prior to being Kingsmead School it was the Union Workhouse.
Reply ID 57811
04/12/2008 by Moulder
quote:
Originally posted by Old Charm
Although according to the Discover Hertford blog, the police have moved out of the site in April to their new one opposite Richard Hale School, the former still seems to be very occupied as does the car park. One can only assume that the civilian staff do not have enough room at the new headquarters. When the development proceeds I wonder where they and their cars will go, given the size of the new police station
Quite a few of them will transfer to Stevenage Police Station with the CJU (Criminal Justice Unit) together with their CPS partners.
Reply ID 57813
04/12/2008 by thefair1973
I hope whoever the planners are that allowed Kingsmead school to be demolished and the monstrocity of the police station put in its place should be shot!
Reply ID 57825
05/12/2008 by Rabbit Rabbit
The clock from the school tower is now at All Saints Church.
Reply ID 57826
05/12/2008 by Steve
There's an artist's impression in this week's Mercury. There's also a quote from Zog's MD, "Everything fits in together and I don't think the plan is overdevelopment.". So, whilst everything else in the area is two-storey residential semis, a collection of tightly-packed four-storey blocks is not overdevelopment?
Reply ID 57839
06/12/2008 by aubend
Now now Steve let's not be so negative. Why shouldn't hundreds more people be crammed into this lovely olde worlde Market town of ours?
If we are not careful the MD of Zog (stupid name) might come on here again and call us Carrot Crunchers. Let's face it he must know what he's talking about, he comes from the big city that never sleeps (Enfield - snigger). Plus he probably drives a Range Rover Sport (he is a property developer after all) so he must be better than us.
Reply ID 57891
08/12/2008 by Kitty Kat
Watch out ..... she's off again [:0]
Reply ID 60142
04/02/2009 by Steve
This plan will be decided at the Development Control committee meeting on 11th February.
The recommendation from the council's planning officer is that the plan be refused.
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