Seatown Castle Development Angers Residents
A proposed office development in a garden adjoining the Franciscan Friary bell tower, locally known as Seatown Castle, has angered residents of Castle Road and Mill Street, and they are determined to oppose the project.
The Franciscan Friary was established in 1244 and the Bell Tower was built in the 15th century.
The proposed site is the garden of No 1 Castle Road, the former home of the late Neil Traynor, who many will remember carried on a wholsale sweet business in the courtyard at Seatown, now occupied by the legal practice of James McGuill.
The residents feel that planning approval for the office block would render the house at No 1 useless as a private dwelling, and would signal the 'beginning of the end' for the locality as a residential area.
It is indeed hard to envisage how an office block development, within a few metres of the ancient castle, would not detract from the antiquity of one of the last remaining intact monuments in the town.
The Franciscan Friary was established in 1244 and the Bell Tower was built in the 15th century.
The proposed site is the garden of No 1 Castle Road, the former home of the late Neil Traynor, who many will remember carried on a wholsale sweet business in the courtyard at Seatown, now occupied by the legal practice of James McGuill.
The residents feel that planning approval for the office block would render the house at No 1 useless as a private dwelling, and would signal the 'beginning of the end' for the locality as a residential area.
It is indeed hard to envisage how an office block development, within a few metres of the ancient castle, would not detract from the antiquity of one of the last remaining intact monuments in the town.
posted by Editor at 7:50 a.m.
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