On 1 Jul 2015 at 2:44pm Paul wrote:
What is being built in place of the buildings they have just knocked down next to the car park in the centre of town - the opposite side to the magistrates' court they have also just knocked down? More houses?
On 1 Jul 2015 at 3:52pm Earl of Lewes wrote:
It's going to be a mosque.
On 1 Jul 2015 at 3:56pm Earl of Lewes wrote:
Sorry, the heat has affected my brain. I've no idea really.
On 1 Jul 2015 at 4:41pm Curious wrote:
What a brilliant idea! Wish I'd thought of doing that. Then our community would be really diverse!
On 1 Jul 2015 at 4:46pm Sill wrote:
Flats and a shopping mall downstairs a lady told me!
On 1 Jul 2015 at 5:19pm worried wrote:
Where exactly is this please? The Magistrates Court being knocked down is bad enough.
On 1 Jul 2015 at 5:47pm Resident wrote:
Do you mean the old Magistrates Court Car Park? It was not part of the sale, we were told. It's now hoarded up and being used as a site office for the mag court desecration.
Very strange.
On 1 Jul 2015 at 6:08pm sceptic wrote:
An indoor market would solve a lot of problems.
On 1 Jul 2015 at 6:12pm Oldbutintouch wrote:
the original shanty town between Vipers Wharf and Stricklands Warehouse is being replaced with mixed development of flats and shops - I think! The plans I saw a year or so ago show a series of tall warehouse type buildings matching their neighbours, so, if this is the case, this can only be an improvement on the demolished shacks. The developer is a local chap with a good track record for good modern design - check out Timberyard Lane.
On 1 Jul 2015 at 6:13pm Mark wrote:
The back of the magistrate's court off friars walk. It was all knocked down today.
On 1 Jul 2015 at 7:07pm bastian wrote:
Great, more shops, is that like the big one in the old Sussex Express (or cinema) building that is still empty a year after it was built! Brilliant!
I take exception to the idea that the area between vipers warf ( a new name given only afew months ago) and the old (but a few years ago decrepit) slate building. St John ambulance have had to move so many times in lewes just so someone can make yet more money out of what ever building they were renting....I don't actually hate modern buildings, but I do dispise people who talk about old buildings a decrepit and in need of deveopment because they are ignorant of history and what builds a town, they just want to obliterate the past with no mercy.
On 1 Jul 2015 at 8:05pm Youth wrote:
Get with it Grandad!
On 1 Jul 2015 at 8:05pm Mr whippy wrote:
Ice cream parlour
On 1 Jul 2015 at 8:25pm mick jaguar wrote:
I hear that Donald Trump is going to build a hotel.
On 1 Jul 2015 at 8:45pm confused wrote:
can I ask bastian why you are taking exception to an area being called a name it was known by local many many moons ago as a brief such of local history would inform you
On 1 Jul 2015 at 11:45pm local dude wrote:
What about that big empty building built on North Street, next to the telephone exchange (also empty) and the NHS building (also empty). I think it was built to replace a building at Commercial Square, now flats. Something to do with law enforcement, but I haven't tried the phone outside to see who owns it.
On 2 Jul 2015 at 7:18am Neopolitan wrote:
Hi, I'm all for diversity...strawberry, chocolate and vanilla can live quite happily together
On 2 Jul 2015 at 7:21am Annette Curtin-Twitcher wrote:
It had never occurred to me that these days a lot of telephone exchanges are pretty much redundant!
If it serves no useful purpose, then it should be used for housing imo. It's much better to re-use old town centre sites than to develop on the fringes of the town and encroach into the countryside.
On 2 Jul 2015 at 8:28am Screaming Lord Such wrote:
Thanks for the info, saved me suching low and high. Also a thumbs up to Neapolitan for your wit but one down for the spelling, just look @ a box of the stuff when you're next in Tesco.
On 2 Jul 2015 at 10:30am in the know2 wrote:
They do use the telephone exchange it serves the internet now.
On 2 Jul 2015 at 11:03am Mrs Beetroot wrote:
also a hanging out area for skateboarders...
On 2 Jul 2015 at 2:34pm Belladonna wrote:
I think you mean the white 30s style building that was the 'River Clinic' . Warehouse -style buildings are being built. Thought it was just as housing. You can bet they will be 'luxury' apartments - like the Timberyard/riverside development opposite the Railway lands where the 4 bed houses are being offered for about 1.4 million.....
On 2 Jul 2015 at 2:54pm Paul wrote:
1.4 million ?!?
Thanks for the information.
I agree about the building on North street - it does seem to be a massive building to house a phone. If you have to meet an officer there (!!) then you turn up and ring the phone - the people answering the phone aren't in the building but then ring the officer on a mobile and they appear in their car/bike a few minutes later and open the building up for the meet to take place. Well that was my experience anyway.