Castlepoint: reconstruction is underway

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Castlepoint: reconstruction is underway by Chris Downer as part of the Geograph project.

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Castlepoint: reconstruction is underway

Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 16 Dec 2018

Castlepoint shopping centre was opened in 2003 and structural problems came to light soon after. Since December 2005 the lower deck of the car park has been reinforced with props, such as visible here: Image (July 2007) and I naively took follow-up photos in February 2008 (Image) and June 2008 (Image) expecting that it would be properly remedied soon after. But 10 years on, something is finally being done. This is the view through the cordoned area - the frontage of Sainsbury's on the western end - where we can see that the top level has been demolished and the works to rebuild it have got started during the autumn of 2018. Mitigating the loss of parking spaces, more car parking has been built under some of the shops. See also Image For a view across the Sainsbury's frontage from the car park before it was demolished, see Image

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Image Location

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Latitude
50.752157
Longitude
-1.844727