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SALFORD COUNCIL TAKES £800,000 BUILE HILL MANSION FUNDING TO SPEND ON BIN WAGONS
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Star date: 20th August 2020 COUNCIL TO PURCHASE SEVEN BIN WAGONS WITH BUILE HILL MANSION FUNDING Salford City Council is set to buy seven refuse vehicles with £800,000 set aside for the refurbishment of Buile Hill Mansion, plus £300,000 unclaimed from property owners who were subject to Compulsory Purchase Orders. The Buile Hill Mansion money was ringfenced as match funding for an expected grant which, the Council states, 'wasn't awarded'. Full details here...
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The ongoing saga of the Buile Hill Mansion restoration will take another turn for the worse next week when Salford City Council will transfer £800,000 of funding set aside for the refurbishment to go towards purchasing seven new bin wagons. A Council report states that the "capital allocation was included in the agreed 20/21 programme to act as match funding to lever expected external grant. Grant has not been awarded to the Council and whilst other funding options continue to be explored, the existing Council £1.1m capital will not be required or spent in this financial year..." The £1.1million mentioned above also appears to include £300,000 set aside for compensation for property owners who were subject to Compulsory Purchase Orders and unclaimed... "Whilst all efforts are made by the Council to release the compensation at the time of acquisition, some owners cannot be traced or do not come forward with claims" the report explains "As a result, the capital resource assigned to finance the claims is re-profiled until a claim comes forward or it reaches the ten-year expiry period calculated from date of the property was vested by the Council. "These claims have been reviewed" it adds "As a result, capital resource of £300k associated with outstanding claims with a low or medium likelihood of coming forward and not being spent by March 21is now available." The proposal is that "As part of the on-going monitoring, capital resource of £1.1m has been identified within Place capital programme from Environment (Buile Hill mansion budget - £800k) and Regulatory Services (Enforcement budget - £300k)... Place DMT have agreed the available resource be vired across to Environment to accelerate the fleet renewal programme and increase the number of vehicles for replacement in 2020/21..." Where this leaves the Grade II listed Buile Hill Mansion refurbishment is anybody's guess... Update: 22nd August - In response to this article Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett, has issued a press release confirming support for the Mansion - Salford Council did not send the press release to the Salford Star and hasn't spoken to this publication for over six years - see the release here
For a full background see previous Salford Star articles – click here and click here
Main photo by Gareth Lyons
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at 12:31:54 on 25 August 2020 |
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| And there we have trhe shy , retiring Felse, who promised not to post up again, posting comments.
Wasnt he on about some coalition Rainbow party a few years ago? If you get your Rainblw party Felse, I'm sure you can find Zippy, Bungle and Geoffrey to help you. |
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at 12:02:07 on 25 August 2020 |
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| Is he still going on about that?! There is a word for it you know, but I suppose he’s at the right age for it. Shame really, he may have been a good politician in his heyday back in the 70’s. Sad really. |
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Felsey wrote
at 09:15:14 on 25 August 2020 |
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| Nasty things being said become part of the course for politicians which is why they do not bother me. But when nice words come along they make us smile. Thank you to the nice people. But do let us keep to the topics. I am determined to save Buile Hill and to bring healthy new activities into Salford. Politics has destroyed what should have been the best City in the North of England. If I am Mayor that will be the pledge to be the best otherwise why do we bother electing a Mayor. Of course to achieve it needs total respect which is why the role must be a free Mayor just getting on with making Salford the tremendously best of the best City. |
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at 08:57:52 on 23 August 2020 |
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| James Green are you from Salford? Labour has as much chance of being kicked out as old man Felse has of becoming ANYTHING in politics here! |
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If I become Mayor wrote
at 21:44:16 on 22 August 2020 |
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| No I will never become Mayor, I have a brain condition which makes me delusional! |
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James Green wrote
at 19:56:15 on 22 August 2020 |
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| Time Boris gave Michael J Felse an award he never gives up and the Tory party has the best candidate for the Mayor job. Goodbye Labour you are going to get kicked out. Hurrah |
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Carlos wrote
at 19:50:43 on 22 August 2020 |
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| Thank it Felse is the vision he will c us a great city to live. |
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Felsey wrote
at 17:23:22 on 22 August 2020 |
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| Ridiculous. Surely a responsible Council should have already budgeted for bin wagon replacements. Buile Hill will be saved in fact government grant bids will be found if I become Mayor with my preferred bid to be The North West City Bike Centre using new money for cycle hire, repairs, skills training, tea shop and visitors bike transport centre including a family safety ride with pride track to get more young kids riding bikes. |
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Darren born bred wrote
at 16:17:53 on 22 August 2020 |
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| Demolish it, end off.. give me a big tank and I will do it. Salford council don't want to know about the mansion, they have left it empty for 20years and left it to deteriorate. The inside of the mansion must be shocking after 20 years of neglect and would cost a lot of time and money to sort out. We have had numerous companies interested like the capital centric lot and the Wilkinson lot and it's still decaying away. We also had local people campaigning for it for many years and getting nowhere. Tired of the same story coming up twice a year about saving the mansion. DEMOLISH IT. End off. |
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bob wrote
at 15:23:48 on 22 August 2020 |
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| Look at that picture. It is a great building. I bet you could convert it into say 10 really nice flats. If anyone doubts it, look at the chaseley field centre flats, they are superb and these would be even better. Obviously, we would have to put decent people in them, and who better than our hospital staff who have served us so well under the present crisis. Many of these young people have problems finding accommodation as its so expensive round here, thats why Salford Royal have staff shortages as these young folk go to hospitals where housing is cheaper. You could put more housing in the old builders depot at the back as I have said before. That place is walled off from the rest of the park and is a shithole. If you built in there, you wouldn't know from the outside because its walled off. What's wrong with people living in the park? When the house was a mansion, their was probably more people living there than they would as apartments, with servants ,grooms, coachmen ect, plus horses shitting all over the place. Anyway, people live in the park, I have seen them kipping on the benches. Stick hospital staff in, it will pay for itself,and get rid of the problem, and do a bit of good at the same time. |
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David Broughton wrote
at 01:22:55 on 22 August 2020 |
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| What a complete b*lls up!
Carmen Wood-Hope, I don't see your point - surely safeguarding and celebrating the dwindling abundance of our City's local heritage *does* serve the public good? The proposals from the private sector have been completely monstrous, and the local community have every right to demand intervention from the local authority who are responsible for the site to secure it's continues existence. People like former Councillor Mary Ferrer and the Friends of Buile Hill Park have campaigned for many years and given their own time and energy into transforming the park -and to some extent even saving the Council (and you as a no-doubt hardworking Council Tax Payer) a small fortune in keeping the place in a good state, as have countless others in similar initiatives around the city in recent, financially-tight times.
If that's bullying, well then I'm sure the council can handle it - after all they exist to serve the needs and wishes of the electorate, not the private sector who only care about their loading their own pockets.
If the powers that be don't get their act together and continue to give a damn about community's wishes soon, I can either see the place falling into so much disrepair that it is lost forever - or the usual suspects may get a foot in the door (or organise a back-hander) in the form of vulture-like "property-developers" (i.e Fred Done's etc) yet AGAIN get hold of the place for a steel and turn Buile Hill Manson into more hideously affordable luxury apartments, for the enjoyment of purely the filthy rich and profiting investors (maybe that's the plan anyway?)- not local Salford people as it should be!
Mary if you're reading this, I can see you or someone else within the community putting up a serious challenge in the upcoming local elections on this sort of thing as a campaign issue, as it seems clear the political will is not in the realm of where the power currently lies. |
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Carmen Wood-Hope wrote
at 07:31:51 on 21 August 2020 |
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| The right decision, the council have been bullied for to long by the “ Friends of Buile Hill mansion group. There have been lots of offers to refurb/ renovate/ repurpose, the mansion and outbuildings, all turned down. It will fall down if serious priority isn’t given to investors turning it into something useful. Private money can save the mansion. My council tax is for the public good. Repair the roads and step up bin collections are a priority.
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Stewart Eon wrote
at 20:46:28 on 20 August 2020 |
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| The usual betrayal we expect from the Town Hall Mafia .
The same Mafia who wanted to sell our mansion for peanuts to one of their rich chums for a hotel .
Remember this betrayal and vote this mafia out at the earliest opportunity . |
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Bob wrote
at 19:08:17 on 20 August 2020 |
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| Instead of bin wagons, why don't they buy a few skips and a skiploader. They could then knock this XXXXing place down and that would be the end of it. Tell Dennett I'll give him a quid each for the slates, and I'll get someone to take em off. Beautiful quality.He'll get a couple of bob for the stone and timber in their as well. I remember ages ago moaning about the gutters. Not been round there for ages, but I bet they still haven't cleaned them out. Why don't our concerned residents ask Tim what he thinks about the gutters? He is a developer,he knows more than I do. |
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Geebee wrote
at 18:49:26 on 20 August 2020 |
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| Seems like incompetence on behalf of the council. Or should I say competence incompetence. That is give the impression that its a mess and gone wrong. But actually its the result the council want |
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John barton wrote
at 18:27:19 on 20 August 2020 |
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| Doesn’t surprise me what this waste of space council get up to like a lot of other things they do it’s just wrong |
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Sandra Whipday wrote
at 16:33:39 on 20 August 2020 |
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| Absolutely disgusted that the money raised to refurbish Buile Hill Mansion is to be used for another purpose. I'm sure the people of Salford haven't played any part in this decision. Shame on Salford Council.😠
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born bred Darren wrote
at 15:47:38 on 20 August 2020 |
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| The council are doing what people do all the time, robbing Peter to pay Paul. On the buile hill mansion, it's been left boarded up for 20 years, its embarrassing. I went past this mansion on my bike a few times during lockdown and it looks a right mess. The drawn out saga of the mansion and Salford council farting about with it will still be going on when all my hair turns grey in about 8years from now. Either knock it down or do something useful with it. What about the homeless using it. |
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Paul McBride wrote
at 15:35:20 on 20 August 2020 |
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| Salford planners are no better than thieves and scoundrels of the first order. No respect for landmarks whether cultural, aesthetically pleasing or historical. They need to be held to account for the damage they are doing to our heritage. |
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Lorna Apted-Wright wrote
at 13:04:03 on 20 August 2020 |
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| Absolutely disgusting! Buile Hill is an amazing building and why shouldn't Salford have at least one Mansion to admire for ourselves and future generations too! |
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