Video Update 89 Days to completion

Stonebridge Park, Nottingham. UK

The Long Hedge site at the top of Magson Close is close to completion, with just the surface tarmac of the new road left to be done. The flats along Magson Close are still under construction, and now workers are concentrating on The Peverel site, Eastham Close & Dennet Close to try and get them finished on time.

I was lucky on Tuesday 27^th March and managed to have a conversation with Alex Barras (LHA_ASRA). Alex said he was confident that the Stonebridge construction works would all be completed on time at the end of June. Alex is retiring from LHA at that time so he was just overseeing the last 12 weeks of construction on the estate.

Installing the district heating pipes was a real headache he said, because every home had to be connected individually, and this meant extra trenches everywhere causing a higher risk of cutting through electric cables. The district heating installation has caused a delay, however, the good whether has allowed them to catch up.

Alex gave me some sad news about one of the 11 apprentices taken on by Lovell’s as part of the works programme. I have not been given the young man’s name; however, he died just after Christmas after a short illness. LHA_ASRA have now taken the unusual decision to rename St Matthias Apartments at the bottom of Magson Close after the apprentice.