{"id":11861,"date":"2014-07-10T23:04:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11861"},"modified":"2014-07-10T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:04:46","slug":"new-housing-for-old-but-little-for-young-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11861","title":{"rendered":"New housing for Old &#8211; but little for young families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14071013.jpg\" alt=\"New Housing for Old\" \/><br \/>\nThe detached house next the shops on Wootton Road, the one with the white shiplap boarding, has just been demolished. I liked that house but am told it had structural problems and was beyond saving.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14071014.jpg\" alt=\"New Housing for Old\" \/><br \/>\nThere is planning consent for it to be replaced with 3 x one bedroom and 5 x two bedroom apartments.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14071002.jpg\" alt=\"New Housing for Old\" \/><br \/>\nOn Northcourt Road, next to the entrance to Fitzharrys School, another detached house, described on the planning application as <i>&#8220;of no great merit, and could not justify retention<\/i>&#8221; is being replaced by 4 x one bedroom and 3 x two bedroom flats. That development is further advanced.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14071003.jpg\" alt=\"New Housing for Old\" \/><br \/>\nThe redevelopment of Mayott House, an old people&#8217;s home, on Ock Street, is also advancing. Foundations are laid. Some first floor walls are up.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14071006.jpg\" alt=\"New Housing for Old\" \/><br \/>\nThere will be 4 apartments to purchase, prices from \u00a3102,500, and 36 apartments to rent.<\/p>\n<p>In this quick roundup of the new housing, being built in Abingdon, there is room for the elderly, and some smaller apartments, but not that much for young families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The detached house next the shops on Wootton Road, the one with the white shiplap boarding, has just been demolished. I liked that house but am told it had structural problems and was beyond saving. There is planning consent for it to be replaced with 3 x one bedroom and 5 x two bedroom apartments. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}