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Pleasley Hill rebuild scheme moves forward

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Published Date: 30 June 2009
Email Helen Lambourne

MAJOR plans to regenerate Pleasley Hill have moved a step closer after Meden Valley Making Places (MVMP) was chosen to bring forward the scheme.
Mansfield District Council has appointed the local regeneration organisation to breathe new life into the area by demolishing the run-down properties and building new homes.

And work could soon start on buying properties from their owners and knocking them down after the council allocated £960,000 in capital funds towards the redevelopment.

Mansfield mayor Tony Egginton said: "It is a big organisation, Government backed and Government funded. It allows us to give those people that have been suffering all this time a marvellous step forward.

"MVMP will now be seeking developer interest. It is very exciting. It has been very frustrating for the people of Pleasley Hill but hopefully it will happen sooner than we thought. Let's hope we can get a quality developer coming forward."

Chad reported last month how the council had signed an agreement with landowners of two large sites next to the MARR road so they could be included in the regeneration of Pleasley Hill — with a range of housing and employment sites planned.

The £960,000 allocated to the area by the authority was part of its capital programme for improving private housing across the district, which was approved last week.

The total scheme will lead to £2.7m being spent this year, including projects at Mansfield Woodhouse, Newgate Lane and Warsop Vale, where external improvements to groups of properties will be made.

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  • Last Updated: 30 June 2009 9:56 AM
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Bullfarm Bluesman,

Dead Calm Farm. 01/07/2009 07:25:51
Meanwhile, back at Brownlow/Bould Regeneration, Flagship Development, Meden Valley Making Faces are slowly beavering away prepping for the next phase of demolition. A spokesperson confirmed that progress is hampered due to the site not being on the MARR ( M1 Accident Relief Road ).
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Alpha_Geek,

01/07/2009 10:19:39
That is not what we were told. We were told the Council was in the process of selecting a developer!!!

This is a step backwards! Not there is another organisation involved, and they are going to look for a developer???

http://pleasleyhillplight.wordpress.com
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Eyeball,

01/07/2009 11:29:07
Any chance of MARR being completed - EVER?

I haven't been up that way for a couple of years...email from NCC Environment July 2004 stating (Pleasley By-pass extension) "could be constructed by 2009/10 subject to the satisfactory outcome of all necessary statutory procedures."

Will I be pleasantly surprised to find this complete and in action????

Finish the road first? People before cars may not be a wise rationale
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Alpha_Geek,

01/07/2009 13:33:21
@Eyeball

It has been finished for some years now. perhaps 5-6? unless there is another part of the route yet to be built that I am unaware of. As far as I understand it the road leading away from chesterfield road towards sutton, and then from the A38 to Rainworth is the completed MARR?
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Eyeball,

01/07/2009 21:41:21
#4 - apologies it is unclear, but MARR is not really complete until it joins to the dual carriageway near the river - as stated above "Pleasley By-pass extension" (details from an email on behalf of NCC Environment Director) theoretically avoiding the bottleneck of the hill high-density residential area

Ask anyone who regularly comes into Mansfield from the Chesterfield side

Whatever it is - 8 kilometres or so of MARR - then spoiled it for the sake of a few hundred metres

I have not travelled that way since I think Jan 2008, and I assume that a route may not yet even have been decided

Pleasley always will be affected by this intended joining of the roads, but many believe it would be better to put the road through before any housing
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RedPaul,

Mansfield 04/07/2009 07:21:55
Meden Valley Making Places Very Very Slowly is what they really should be called. As a former resident of New Terrace i'd just like to warn people that phrases like "moving things forward" and things happening "sooner than expected" wouldn't be something that i'd get my hopes up over. We were expecting our first child when MVMP wanted to move us out and we were offered a property on the "new" developement. after a year and a half we took matters into our own hands and moved away instead. Our daughter will be five next birthday and as far as i'm aware there still isn't a new property that we could have moved into. slow slow slow
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