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Chrismas Lodge Care Home
Evelyn Avenue Aldershot
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| Chrismas Lodge is no more ! February 2008, the dirty deed is done | |||
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| Hampshire County Council were required to put up bat boxes to adhere to legislation, so they could demolish Chrismas Lodge. We eventually found them - all 2. The second is so badly located, we can't even get a decent photo of it yet, in amongst tree banches and twigs it will very probably never ever get used. We observed the demolition of the Chrismas Lodge site many times from the boundary, the box seen here we could have missed but the second we did not see untill the Lodge had gone, and we know we checked that particular tree more than once, so when DID Hampshire County Council put those boxes up, draw your own conclusion. |  | ||
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| Demolition of Chrismas Lodge December 2007 to January 2008 | |||
| The demolition of Chrismas Lodge over December 2007 to January 2008 was done under the guise of "Health and Safety" because of the "Serious" fire in May 2007. Hampshire County Council demolished Chrismas Lodge so that any other "miscreants" who chose to break in would not "hurt themselves" whilst they were wrecking the place!. Following that fire it took Hampshire County Council some months to get security fencing up and 24 hour patrols on site, if they were that worried about "Health and Safety" why was the security not put in place when the building became empty ?. | |||
| The BEST Report and Aldershot Civic society spent many months trying to convince Hampshire County Council to pass Chrismas Lodge over to a Trust and group of volunteers to run the site as an Environmental Education Centre and facility for the local Community. Unfortunately they were not to be convinced of our aims and ploughed on regardless, one throwaway comment during a meeting with Hampshire County Council was "We dont care who we sell to, if you can afford £3m to buy it you can have it". They totally disregarded the Quirk Review and applicable Government legislation allowing local groups to purchase disused Council buildings in their quest to "secure capital receipts". | |||
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| Subsoil sampling at Chrismas Lodge Subsoil sampling done late in 2006 | |||
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| Brickfields Park bordering Chrismas Lodge The land we could loose to a developer | |||
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| Chrismas Lodge After the residents moved out | |||
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