Shelley Park House part sell-off plans

From the Echo, first published Monday 20th Oct 2003.

A PLAN to sell off part of Shelley Park House to free up capital for the Boscombe Gardens project is fact, not rumour, a meeting heard.

But some residents and councillors are upset over the idea and aim to fight it.

The meeting was held yesterday to celebrate Bournemouth Borough Council's recent Heritage Lottery grant of £1.07 million to restore Boscombe Gardens.

David Crudgington, landscape manager in Leisure Services, told the meeting at the Chine Hotel, Boscombe, that 55 per cent costs of the two-year Boscombe Gardens project would come from the lottery grant and 45 per cent (£864,000) from the council.

Money would also come from the revenue budgets, grants, and Section 106, which councils can use to get money from developers to pay for things like road building.

The council plans to commit £491,000 from the proposed Boscombe Spa development (capital receipts).

Four and a quarter million pounds could come from the proposed Honeycombe Chine flat development, he added.

But former cabinet member Harry Cutler said: "I think all hell will be let loose in Boscombe if they realise that they are going to pull some of the house down to get money."

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