Work stands still on Hunny flats development
WORK has ground to a halt on a controversial seafront flat development in Hunstanton – but it may be only temporarily.
Two blocks of five apartments are being built in Cliff Parade on the site of a former guest house named Green Shutters.
The scheme was given the go-ahead last year, despite objections from nearby residents concerned about the scale and density of the development.
They included the Cliff Top Residents' Association, which has now highlighted the "apparent abandonment" of the site in mid-development.
Chairman of the association, Dr John Burgess, said: "It has been noted that over the past few months there has been a decline in the number of workmen on site. During January, work slowed to a complete standstill and concern was raised that all the portable cabins had been removed from the site."
Dr Burgess said the "monstrous, half-finished" blocks were currently a blot on the clifftop area.
A spokesman for Sowerby's estate agents, which is marketing the flats, said he understood that building costs for the development had proved higher than expected because it was such a complex site. The developers, London-based Cranmere, were believed to be waiting for more funding.
The lack of progress on the development was raised at the association's January 29 meeting.
Concern was also voiced that another developer was intending to build apartment developments along Cliff Parade and had approached the owners of some properties in the area. Dr Burgess said the association had been assured the scheme had not set a precedent for further "garden-grabbing" developments in the area. "Let us wait and see," he added.
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