Don't know if I've asked this before but wonder what happened to that lovely stone freize above the main entrance? Surely they wouldn't destroy it most prob in someone's garden .
Thanks DD...hopefully it was taken/ sold to someone and is somewhere being cared for. Sure they could have made money for charity by selling off some things, even a brick or two people would have liked maybe stick in their garden or whatever. Soppose a salvage team came in first and took all the good stuff. Wouldn't it be nice to know what happened to that carving , anybody give an answer?
What eventually is the plan for this house DD? I heard it was to become a hub or something for community. Are bungalows for the over 55s still the plan on the land .
From memory (buyer beware!).... there's a three storey old people block and about 40 houses and 30 bungalows, Ravenswood getting converted into apartments.
There will be no through road between Ravenswood Avenue and Highfield South, so vehicle-wise the estate will be divided in two
The plans have changed numerous times. I'll try and dig out the current one later on. The last problem I recall was making sure the bin lorries had adequate access and turning everywhere.
The rest of the land has been handed over to a trust which seem to have no viable plans as how they are going to manage it - after the two groups had a war of the worlds and one achieved dominance, information is kept fairly close to their chests.
We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn
Thanks DD, a fair bit of housing on the land then. At least Ravenswood will be looked after and saved, such a grand house. Do you mean the sports Fields which were promised to be used for community sports and maintained.
Torus got planning permission back in February 2020 but then in October they reduced their offer for the site from £2.1m to £1.2 because of the increased cost of refurbishing Ravenswood.
Bear in mind the site was valued at over £3m and that the council had already paid for the demolition of the other buildings and basic clearance and levelling of the site.
The security at the site was poor, part of the conditions for demolishing the site were that the Council was supposed to provide a security plan in 2014 which never seemed to materialise.
The layout on the Torus site is roughly right, it doesn't look like there are any bungalows now? The road along the bottom is Highfield South, only the small block of houses at the top right have access from Ravenswood Avenue. The original plans had a different layout.
