Scant days after its completion, this newly-built block of flats - across the road from Southcote Station (not far from Ash Grove, where I reside) - were subject to a compulsory purchase order, soon after which the doors and windows were all bricked up. This was, apparently, carried out by an anonymous group of individuals who arrived at the site in a black van, and who were only ever seen to wear white environmental overalls and black rubber filter masks for the duration of the work. Unsurprisingly, Horsingdon Borough Council have refused to comment on the matter.
Rumour has it that the new build stands on the site of an earlier structure: something far older, whose foundations when uncovered were left unreported during the development of the flat - foundations into which, perhaps, the developers delved too deeply...
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