Decision on Goldthorpe housing demolition expected
17/04/15
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A £1 MILLION proposal to knock down 19 houses on a run down street in Goldthorpe will be considered next week.
Cabinet members will discuss the pros and cons of buying up and then demolition the properties from 1 to 37 on Beever Street to make way for affordable housing.
The Victorian terraced houses on the street are considered by the council to be of very poor quality, in low demand and 'in a spiral of decline'.
The project would cost more than £1million and would be funded from the council's capital housing pot and the housing revenue account.
** The full story is in the Barnsley Chronicle newspaper, dated April 17 . **
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