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5:30 AM April 23, 2021
The crumbling brickwork at the top of Sovereign House at Anglia Square. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
- Credit: DENISE BRADLEY/Archant2021
Crumbling brickwork, boarded up windows, scaffolding and swathes of graffiti - these pictures show the sorry state of the buildings around Anglia Square.
Sovereign House at Anglia Square. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
- Credit: DENISE BRADLEY/Archant2021
Sovereign House - once home to hundreds of workers at Her Majesty’s Stationery Office from the late 1960s to the start of the 1990s - still towers over surrounding streets.
Sovereign House at Anglia Square. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
- Credit: DENISE BRADLEY/Archant2021
This is not only short-sighted in terms of the quality of life of the people who live in the development but also in terms of the overall Norwich economy: the entrepreneurs and skilled people crucial to the businesses that we need can find jobs anywhere in the United Kingdom or abroad and look for a high quality of life when choosing somewhere to live.
Anglia Square. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
- Credit: Copyright: Archant 2020
Maximising energy efficiency should be a priority both to minimise the energy costs for residents and support the city council’s aim to become carbon neutral.
Driven partly by the success of the Norwich University of the Arts, the city is developing some thriving creative businesses.
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But for businesses, city-dwellers and visitors to the area of the city, there is still a desire for something to be done with the part of the city - whether it is a similar scheme or something totally different.
Albert Hawes, owner of Now n Then antique shop, said he was a keen supporter of what was on the table already.
He said: I thought what they had was nice and modern and would have brought the whole area into the 21st century - so I desperately want to see it developed. I d like to see it brought back and maybe put to a local vote.
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