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Sunninghill17 viewsSunninghill in Berkshire is not the sort of place where you would expect to find housing dereliction.

It is an area with some of the most expensive properties in Britain. Nearby are Ascot race course and Wentworth golf club.

Many of the houses have security gates and electronic surveillance cameras to scan visitors. Tradespeople are instructed to "use other gate" and, behind the brick walls and thick rhododendron hedges, the passing traveller can glimpse large houses with pillared porticoes, monuments mor

11 viewsYes or no?

Kerry Katona28 viewsKerry Katona’s former neighbours say the ex-pop singer has left them an unwelcome parting gift – a large pile of rubbish that is attracting rats.
Miss Katona, 29, who lost her job as the face of the Iceland food chain after drugs allegations, has moved from her £1.28million detached home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, to Sussex.

13 viewsDevelopers are trying again with plans for student flats on the site of one of Cambridge’s worst eyesores.
Proposals for a four-storey building comprising 94 bedrooms and a shop, on the junction of Histon Road and Huntingdon Road, were rejected at appeal in June, having been branded “mediocre” by development chiefs.

16 viewsTWO VAN-loads of rubbish have been dumped at the side of a busy main road between Truro and Falmouth.

Now Cornwall Council staff are hoping someone saw the fly- tipping being done on the edge of the A39 close to the Norway Inn.

61 viewsA mural by graffiti artist Banksy has been partially covered up by council workers in Liverpool, despite been hailed a Capital of Culture attraction.

Last month Liverpool City Council said the famous giant rat sprayed on a Berry Street building, would be "preserved for 2008", but now half is obscured.

Hoardings have covered the lower half of the painting, which the artist created for Liverpool Biennial in 2004.

The council also promoted it as part of a campaign to cover city "grot spots".

Hayle83 viewsGeoffrey Holman's 2009 calendar of Hayle includes photographs of a derelict garage site and a disused supermarket.

It gives a guided tour of the remains of a once-thriving centre of industry including the old electric works and Dynamite Quay.

Mr Holman pokes fun by captioning a picture of a crumbling wall around neglected industrial land with a sarcastic reference to the town as a 'centre of engineering excellence since 1779'.

He created the pictorial guide to his birthplace as a parting shot to

A COUNCIL tenant in Bulwell 5 viewsA COUNCIL tenant in Bulwell has been ordered to clean up his garden and keep it tidy — or face the threat of eviction.

Gavin Richards (29) was taken to Nottingham Magistrates Court over the state of his garden at Calder Walk.

Nottingham City Homes (NCH), which maintains the property on behalf of Nottingham City Council, made several attempts to encourage him to clean up the space and clear garden waste.

When officers visited the property, they found that the front yard had been used as a dumping ground.

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Convicted criminals19 viewsConvicted criminals have been working to restore a piece of disused land in Carlisle that had become a magnet for trouble.

Residents living near the former bowling green at Bright Street, off Newtown Road, had complained that the area had become an eyesore. Anti-social behaviour had also been reported.Aug 15, 2011

14 viewsI noticed the scaffolding was being taken down from the old Fruit and Fibre building in Conwy today. There's rumours that council are going to put a "Compulsory Purchase" order on it. Apparently the Council had instructed the firm to remove the scaffolding from the property. So now with no protection at all the building will no doubt deteriorate further.
It must be difficult for the owner too, restrictions apply to graded buildings like this one. The same problem applies to the Black Lion I suppose.Aug 15, 2011

29 viewsA DOCTORS’ surgery could transform the heart of a village and replace a derelict eyesore if councillors persuade the NHS to back the idea.
Rhos-on-Sea is without a doctors’ surgery and councillors claim the owner of the derelict United Reformed Church is prepared to ditch plans for flats and built a medical centre.
The boarded-up eyesore on the corner of Colwyn Avenue and Penrhyn Avenue has long been a subject of complaints in the village as it attracts drunks and spoils the scene at the busy tourist spot.Aug 15, 2011

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