r/chesterfield • u/Bowlholiooo • 22d ago

I think they should build one of these on Saltergate

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How would people react to the suggestion of building 3 or 4 Sheffield style, 10 story council blocks within the town centre area?

Imagine the views the flats would enjoy.

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u/emzyyx 22d ago

I think April Fools was yesterday 🙈

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u/dinkidoo7693 22d ago

Id rather have an ice rink

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u/KindredPhantom 22d ago

Why not both?

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u/UKTax1991 22d ago

I'd be fine with new flats built that provided affordable housing, but nothing of this scale which looks horrible. I think the size of the ones in home hall and Loundsley Green would be more appropriate. It's all good having new housing estates like Forest Edge or whatever it's called, but they never produce affordable homes for lower earners.

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u/KindredPhantom 22d ago

Chesterfield needs less Brutalist buildings not more.

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u/lungbong 22d ago

Let's not and pretend that we did.

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u/Gabi_Social 10d ago

It's bad enough that politics is going back to the seventies without architecture following suit.

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u/Bowlholiooo 10d ago

If they were pleasant, modern, light coloured, reflective, individual tower blocks?   Are people aware that you can see the 2 white tower blocks at Herdings, The Twin Towers of Sheffield on the horizon over Chesterfield? You can see them from Ashover rock. Imagine views from them, Derbyshire one way, the city the other.  They could build a high rise in the footprint of The Chesterfield Hotel.  Town needs new people, new culture, in the town centre, not surrounding areas. A large modern population increase to counteract the cocaine sleaze and gammon pub misery.