Chelmsford's cityscape is developing seriously fast, but some eyesore 1960s buildings are being left behind.
Here we've listed nine buildings in Chelmsford which should really be demolished, or given a drastic revamp.
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- 1. Rivers House
After Kings Tower opposite Chelmsford railway station and the Melbourne flats, Rivers House is the tallest building in the city. But it's by no means the brightest. Developers are currently revamping the interior to convert it from offices to residential flats.
- 2. Cater House
Another 1960s building, made up of residential flats, which Friends of Chelmsford Museum member Jose King once described as "the ugly grey concrete finger stuck right in the middle".
- 3. Chelmsford police station
Obviously it's pretty paramount to have a police station in the centre of town, but does it have to look so horrid?
- 4. Miami Hotel
This dingy building belongs in a barren industrial estate in the middle of the desert in some southern US state. Although the hotel does a lot of work for the city council, giving a lot of rooms to people on the housing register.
- 5. Marrable House
Weston Business Centres is trying to convert this redundant block of 1960s offices into 57 residential flats. Reportedly branded "one of the worst examples of town and country planning in the country" when it was built.
- 6. Threadneedle House
LaSalle Investment Management wants this eyesore building turned from empty offices into flats.
- 7. High Chelmer multi-storey car park
The council spent about £1.6 million repairing the 1,012-space car park in 2011 after CCTV operators spotted lumps of concrete falling from the 1970s building. Should any more money be spent on, say, on demolishing it?
- 8. Salvation Army
The charity's modern building, in Baddow Road parallel to Parkway, isn't necessarily an eyesore, it just looks out of place in Chelmsford.
- 9. Our old headquarters
The Essex Chronicle moved from the 21,000sqft building in Westway, near the old Britvic factory and the Robjohns Road industrial estate, in 2012. Not much has happened to it since.
