47 years ago, on the 8th March 1966, the Nottingham Evening Post published this story about Nottingham City Council’s Housing Committee approving plans to build the Hyson Green flats.
It turned out to be the biggest, and most expensive, planning blunder for the city of Nottingham.
Housing developments at Hyson Green will make it an area for “living,” not one of the “dwellings put up anyhow” Councillor T.J.Arnold told Nottingham City Council yesterday.
As Chairman of the Housing Committee, he was putting forward a £2,433,452 scheme for stage one of the Hyson Green redevelopment, which the council approved.
He described it as an imaginative scheme, and probably one of the best to come before the council.
It would be built by a highly industrialised system and should be completed in about 2 ½ years.
It would have the Coal Board heating scheme and garage and parking space would be on a one for one ratio.
The children’s play areas would take into account the sun coming down on the slopes of the site.
The plans provide for 122 one bedroom flats, 435 two bedroom maisonettes, and 35 three bedroom maisonettes in 31 blocks, five storeys high; 16 shopping bays, 497 garages and 127 parking spaces.
IMAGINITIVE
The layout will have a deck access at second floor level to serve the flats at that level, and the lower and upper maisonettes.
Mr F.C. Woodward agreed that the scheme was imaginative, and added that it was costliest the city had considered. He claimed that the cost per unit would be £4,621 ant that, taking into account the cost of loan repayment over 60 years, the total cost would be over £9m.
The impact on existing council rents would be something like 8d per week per house, he claimed.
Anxiety Over Cost
Mr Bernard Goddard said he supported the report reluctantly, and thought they should take stock of the situation before going forward with any further schemes.
Miss M. McKeon said Hyson Green traders would welcome the scheme, but there was widespread anxiety that the homes would prove to expensive.
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