Sale of Grove House for £1.6 million

Grove House, Penleys Grove Street

Grove House, Penleys Grove Street

The former Grove House elderly persons home is being sold for £1.6 million.

The property was the subject of an unsuccessful attempt to list it as an asset of community value earlier in the year.

The sale price is less than the slightly larger Oliver House site fetched last year.

 Members of City of York Council’s Executive will be asked to approve plans to sell the former Grove House Older People’s Home site, to generate a capital receipt to support the council’s Older Persons Accommodation Programme, at a meeting on Thursday 29 September.

The site is both financially valuable and strategically important, lying just outside the city walls in a largely residential area.

A total of eleven bids were received for the site from nine bidders, seven of which are conditional upon planning permission being obtained.

There were a range of bids for different schemes with vastly different values ranging from £600k to some £1.6m.

The Executive will be asked to approve the Norstar Real Estates proposal as the preferred bid and if approved, the council will enter into detailed commercial discussions.  Norstar Real Estates placed the highest bid of £1.6m and are proposing to convert the existing building into 29 one bedroom flats for sale or rent, including on site affordable homes.
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New proposals for development in Newbury Avenue

Westfield Councillors have given a  guarded welcome to revised proposals which would see 8 bungalows built on the garage site on Newbury Avenue.
Lack of parking space on Windsor Garth is now a major issue. No sign of much needed matrix protection

Lack of parking space on Windsor Garth is now a major issue.

The scheme replaces a controversial plan to build an apartment block there.

In a leaflet circulating to affected residents (below), the Councillors emphasise that a plan, being put before the Council’s Executive on 29th September, needs to be amended to include the funding of additional off-street parking spaces in the estate.

There are already acute parking problems in the area which have been exacerbated by the new Hob Stones development.

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Smart operation will target the fear of crime in York

 Police in York have launched an operation to tackle crime and the fear of crime where it is needed the most – thanks to sophisticated data analysis.

Smart operation will target the fear of crime in YorkThe crime prevention campaign will take place in the Clifton area of the city on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 September, with police working alongside other agencies including trading standards and the fire service to provide reassurance and crime prevention advice to residents.

Officers have used street-level data available to the public sector which measures fear of crime, to identify specific areas which would benefit from a focused operation. They have also looked at annual trends in reported crime to determine the kinds of incidents where crime prevention advice would be effective.

During the operation, codenamed Operation Tansu, extra patrols will take place, and police will be on-hand to security mark valuable items using a dot peen property marking machine, and urging residents to sign up to the North Yorkshire Community Messaging alert service.

Similar initiatives will be taking place in other areas of York in the future.  (more…)