Paradise Place Local Information Portal

Any upcoming work permits that we have regarding highways will be posted here.

1st May 2025. Latest update. No road closures planned for the near to mid term. We have been working hard to navigate the slow planning process and will hopefully be submitting an amendment this week. We’ve no idea if this will be sufficient to get started but its the only path we have right now. We are still very keen to get started repairing this old building. This part of the paperwork has taken 6 months on its own with another 8 weeks to pass before we even have a response. In a perfect world, work will start before the winter but I’m not holding my breath.

8th Jan 2025. Nothing planned in the near future

13th Sept 2024. The current plan is to start some essential structural repair work on the North wall, on or around 18th of Sept 2024. I expect road closures for vehicular traffic during this time. The plan is for this work to take approximately 3 weeks.

19th June 2024 update. The first big set back has appeared. Unfortunately due to the fact that we haven’t had responses from Heritage and planning yet. My builder is unwilling to start the work planned in for the next two weeks. This is frustrating but we need to ensure that we have agreement before proceeding.

21st of June 2024 Road restriction: Updated 5th June 2024, So this plan is going ahead as of today the 5th of June. Hopefully it will all go smoothly. There will be a day when a lorry will turn up to lift a beam into the building. This may cause a more significant delay while it’s in operation.

21st of June 2024 road restriction: Updated on the 19th May 2024, We have received a prompt from the council to make the north wall safe and prevent its condition becoming worse. This was always known as its been like it for years, but receiving the prompt has brought forward our plans on the north wall. We are currently arranging for builders and scaffolding to arrive on the 21st of June 2024 for two weeks. This will narrow the road in front of the building. It will not prevent foot travel and so is not being deemed by the highways as a road closure. I do anticipate that it will prevent a vehicle from passing. There are still departments that have yet to give me a response to my proposal. Once we have feed back from Heritage, Planning and so on, the plan will become more solid. Any changes will be updated here. This consultation may result in dates moving a bit but the work has to be done one way or another, so it will be getting done sooner rather than later.