2:50pm Friday 3rd September 2010
By Lauren Rogers
THE former Kays factory in Worcester is fast disappearing.
Three years after the site closed and the catalogue firm moved away from the city, demolition work at the old factory site in Bransford Road, St John’s, is almost complete.
The large ‘carton’ store has been knocked down and by the end of this year there will be no buildings left standing.
Workers began pulling down the factory and associated buildings last year, but had to stop because former site users were still occupying part of the land. Work started up again in July this year when they moved out.
The developers, SJS Property Management, won outline planning permission for the site to be used for housing in March 2009.
The planning inspectorate decision followed a lengthy battle with Worcester City Council planning bosses who wanted to retain the site for employment.
A spokesman for SJS Property Management said the next step is to build a new road on the site.
The developers must must secure further planning permission before they can actually start building houses on the land.
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