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Anger as flats plan for Riverside Office Centre in Colchester approved
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Flats plan for Riverside Office Centre in Colchester set to be approved
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Empty Colchester offices becoming hotbed of antisocial behaviour
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Colchester Civic Society is amongst those to have objected. It said: “Our particular concern is with the design of the mural itself. “It touches only marginally on the history of the area, ignores much including the military and is quite inaccurate to include Humpty Dumpy as any part of the town’s history. It does little to inform the visitor except at the most trivial level.” The group added: “It is probably a suitable design for a quite different part of Lion Walk other than the wall of this Grade I listed treasure.” Holy Trinity Church is the only surviving Saxon building in Colchester town centre, with the tower dating from around the year 1050.
In his letter, councillor Mark Goacher asks for an undertaking from the new Conservative Cabinet that it will not support the development of the planned 336 student flats in the former bus park (Gazette Letters, May,17, “New Cabinet must reject flats plans”). As councillor Goacher is aware I have been very vocal in my opposition to these plans since they were announced back in 2018, and my position is shared by the entire Conservative group on the council. This has not changed. We have now inherited these disastrous plans from the previous administration, and I can assure readers that one of our key priorities when we form the new administration next week will be to do everything in our power to try to stop this development from going ahead.