Grosvenor House. Picture by Spencer Mulholland A PETITION has been launched looking to register a former children s home into an Asset of Community Value (ACV). Grosvenor and Riverside House, on Churchfields Road, was a children’s home in the 1950s, and a youth and community centre from the 1970s. The petition seeks to cancel the current sale of the property, and to forbid it from being redeveloped into residential housing and instead permit Rise Resound Rebuild CIC to renovate the property into a Cultural Hub for Salisbury . Rise Resound Rebuild (R3), is a Salisbury founded social enterprise that aims to renovate Grosvenor & Riverside House into a cultural hub for the city that reinvests its profits into the community - be that schools, businesses or infrastructure .
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save a community hub have urged district councillors to back a bid to buy the building. An extraordinary full council meeting of Ryedale District Council (RDC) has been called for Wednesday, January 27, to consider the future of the Hungate Centre in Pickering. Members are being asked to support the purchase outright - or potentially in a partnership – based on preserving the Centre for use by the community. The Hungate Centre in Pickering, which is owned by Royal Voluntary Service (RVS), was used by more than a dozen groups and organisations before it closed in March. A six-month halt was brought to the move to sell the building when campaigners registered the property as an Asset of Community Value (AVC) to give the community a chance to retain it.
THE CAMROSE Stadium has been listed as an asset of community value. The latest move from Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council means that Basron cannot sell the stadium without first giving the community six months to buy it. The historic stadium, which saw two planning applications on the site turned down last September, was listed as an asset of community value by BDBC, with the decision coming through on Friday evening.
The Camrose Ground It comes after a request to do so by Basingstoke Town Community Football Club. Basron, owned by the former club chairman Rafi Razzak, bought the freehold to the ground in 2016 from the late newspaper proprietor s estate, which later saw the club kicked out from their home.
Portishead in Bloom volunteers at the community garden.
- Credit: Portishead in Bloom
The future of a community garden in Portishead has been safeguarded until at least 2025.
The Potager Garden, located in Station Road close to Portishead Library, has been listed as an Asset of Community Value (ACV) after a successful joint application by Portishead Town Council and Portishead in Bloom.
Volunteers from Portishead in Bloom first adopted the land, which was once earmarked for a ship-shaped library with flats above it, in 2014. However, until now, it had only been given short-term assurances of use of the land.
As well as flowers, the voluntary group has installed raised beds and planted herbs and vegetables in the beds for community use.
The former Plough Inn at Fadmoor Picture: NYMNPA A DECADE-long saga which has seen a North York Moors community battle with an internet tycoon over the future of a historic pub should come to an end, planners have said. The recommendation to approve the conversion of the 239-year-old Plough Inn, at Fadmoor, into four holiday cottages and two local occupancy rental homes comes as the national park authority’s planning officers concluded it would be wrong to continue to block alternative uses of the building. However, as its owner, Peter Wilkinson, who has built a reported £390m fortune after developing Freeserve, the UK’s first free consumer internet services provider, has already appealed to the Secretary of State, the park authority’s decision next week will only have an advisory effect.