Eyesore buildings being demolished to make way for new houses

The population of Banbury will be happy to hear that three major eyesores are being removed from the sky line. Cherwell District Council has greenlit the demolition of Orchard Lodge off Warwick Road, Calthorpe House in Calthorpe Street and Lincoln House in Woodgreen Avenue. The demolition has already begun.

24 contractors put in bids for the work, but AR Demolition came out on top. It is expected that the work to remove all three buildings will take 3 months, leaving the sites ready for 49 new homes to be built. And that construction will be done through the Build! programme, which sees local residents take on some of the work and help construct the new buildings.

Source: Banbury Guardian

Armac start Leisure Centre workouts

Our regular customer Armac Group of Birmingham, have started a Spring fitness campaign by demolishing two leisure centres in Bletchley and Banbury.

The demolition of the two differing structures is giving a Spring “workout” to the Armac fleet of demolition rigs currently carefully demolishing and clearing away the redundant leisure centres after the local authorities completed new centres on each site.

Bletchley, pictured below, was a striking pyramid construction well known in the area.



The contract in Banbury, at the unusually named Spice Balls complex was a difficult demolition within a tight site but Armac machines soon reduced the building to ground floor slab level and cleared away all arising to allow the slab to be removed and crushed for use by the client. The photograph below shows the demolition well underway.