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Newbury's tallest (and ugliest?) building, BT exchange tower |
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Jun 2 2017, 02:13 PM
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QUOTE (Claude @ Jun 2 2017, 03:01 PM) Who owns it? BT sold off most of it's property to a leasing company. Can't remember their name. QUOTE (Claude @ Jun 2 2017, 03:01 PM) What's its official name? Newbury Telephone Exchange. QUOTE (Claude @ Jun 2 2017, 03:01 PM) What's inside? Telecommunications equipment QUOTE (Claude @ Jun 2 2017, 03:01 PM) How many floors are there and are they all in use? 6 plus basement and no! QUOTE (Claude @ Jun 2 2017, 03:01 PM) Have you ever been inside? Yes. QUOTE (Claude @ Jun 2 2017, 03:01 PM) What's the likelihood of it being knocked down and redeveloped into residential property? I would say almost zero! QUOTE (Claude @ Jun 2 2017, 03:01 PM) What do you know about it? A fair bit!
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Jun 3 2017, 06:40 AM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Jun 2 2017, 09:57 PM) It is a prime place for conversion to housing. It was done in Basingstoke, ex IBM building. No it's not. IBM in Basingstoke was basically a block of offices, easy to relocate or close. A telephone exchange is a much bigger challenge!
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Jun 9 2017, 01:26 PM
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QUOTE (motormad @ Jun 9 2017, 12:30 PM) I hope it isn't made into flats / houses... town is busy enough as it is!!! Still thousands more flats/houses to be built - which is better, turning the BT tower into flats or building on another local field? PS the answer is it doesn't matter, they'll do both anyway.
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Jun 11 2017, 07:36 AM
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QUOTE (Claude @ Jun 6 2017, 03:06 PM) without knowing the extent of the costs for redeploying existing infrastructure then I guess we just have to wait and see. A lot, a lot!! QUOTE (Claude @ Jun 6 2017, 03:06 PM) As someone said, perhaps more will happen when some of the gubbins reaches end of life. What you may not understand, and maybe Andy earlier in his post about local lines, is that the main problem is the number of cables that run through and terminate there. They are not just local lines Andy but major "trunk" and local area cables that link all the other exchanges together. Smaller exchanges in our local area link into Newbury which, in turn, is linked to larger switching centres which then link to other major centres in the country. All part of the network that I am now using to send this post. In addition to that there is also the mobile phone network and other major "trunk" cables that pass through the exchange. The cost of moving this network to a new site (and don't forget it has to carry on working wile you do it) is astronomical.
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Jun 11 2017, 12:44 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Jun 11 2017, 09:58 AM) So, let's get this right, you've got an empty building, full of cables, made out of copper, in Newbury. Hmm, fink I see a major business opportunity here. 😎 Absoluley! Indeed replacing the copper with shiny fibre optics and a significant decline in landline basic telephone traffic is also significantly reducing the size, but also the number of 'exchanges'. There are also now trunk route competitor lines. As a side issue, part of the reason BT fear the severing off of Openreach.
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Jun 11 2017, 01:42 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Jun 11 2017, 02:00 PM) Just across the road is an even more lucrative site for redevelopment, the almost redundant Newbury Police Station and the court buildings. So then, given that the Telephone Exchange, Sorting Office and Post Office are on a site owned by just one organisation and immediately across the road there was another redundant site ioccupied Police Station AND defunct Courts owned by another organisation. Then the new Hambridge Road to Sainsburys road gets built and it's triples all round. Ever wondered why WBCs big 'vision' is really just a couple of sides of A4. All waiting for the new population expected with the new electric trains.
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Jun 11 2017, 02:31 PM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Jun 11 2017, 02:42 PM) Then the new Hambridge Road to Sainsburys road gets built and it's triples all round. Ever wondered why WBCs big 'vision' is really just a couple of sides of A4. All waiting for the new population expected with the new electric trains. That's already approved and grants obtained. The road meanders through the now flattened Sterling Estate from and including the "road to nowhere" by the Mole outlet (the Sainsbury inner roundabout).
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Jun 11 2017, 02:39 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Jun 11 2017, 03:31 PM) That's already approved and grants obtained. The road meanders through the now flattened Sterling Estate from and including the "road to nowhere" by the Mole outlet (the Sainsbury inner roundabout). Quite, just needs the homes built round it.
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Jun 11 2017, 02:41 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Jun 11 2017, 03:02 PM) Just ask "what would JC do?) Need you ask? Make them Council houses. At least it would keep these incomers from your gates Je Suise, so there's a silver lining!
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