The former Willow House Elderly Persons Home on Long Close Lane is still empty.
It is nearly 3 years since residents were moved out of the home and the Council put the site on the open market.
In a £3 million deal, the site was set to be sold for a 126 bed student accommodation development.
However there was a controversy regarding public access to land which had been used for occasional leisure purposes. Labour blocked the plans in November 2017.
A year earlier it had been decided to close the home.
Lack of progress in developing what is a prime site next to the City walls was criticised last October when there was no progress to be seen behind the security railings.
No planning application has been submitted for the redevelopment of the site which is registered with estate agents Sanderson Weatherall. The agents say that their clients would prefer an “unconditional offer”.
The area being offered for sale includes the disputed “informal leisure” land
The building and surrounding land is now becoming something of an eyesore.
This is unfortunate as it is visible fro the City walls.
Only a few hundred metres away, on the other side of the inner ring road, the vacant site next to the Barbican has become an even bigger eyesore.
