UPDATES

May 2005: Bulldozers and diggers have moved on to the site (right) and are demolishing the outbuildings.

June 18: The main building (left) facing Millstone Lane is disappearing. The white wall (in the pictures right and top) has gone and there is little left of the upper storey.

July 2: The buildings have gone (that's an electricity sub-station on the left of the picture) and the diggers are clearing the site. 

July 16: All the buildings

have been demolished (left) and the site cleared ready

for the arrival of the builders.

January 2006: A housing development company, John Warrington Homes, has acquired the land and moved plant on to the site. 

February: Work has started. No houses at this stage, but lots of what look like drainage runs. A notice at the site says that the development will be called Millstone Court.

March: The layout of the site is becoming clear as the roads and drainage go in.  

July: The first block on the site (below) is coming on well. The digger to the left of the picture is standing on the road to the houses. The original entrance to the site has been levelled to be part of the pavement.

And, left, is how the first block looked at the end of the month, with an artist's impression of one of the "Audlem" design houses (below left).

Right is a plan of the development. (Both these are taken from the brochure which was issued by John Warrington Homes.)

March 2007:

The development is now called Miller's Croft and the name of the developer on the site boards is Castlegate Homes.

September:

The first of four blocks planned for the site is completed - so far as I can see from the road. The smaller building on the left of the picture is the marketing suite. Looking at it, I guess that it will become a couple of garages once the houses are sold. The houses in the far distance on the right of the picture are an established development, The Broadway.  

January 2008:

Behind a very neat hoarding, work has begun on the apartment block which will face on to Millstone Lane.

June:

This is the roadside part of the development so far, showing Fairfax House (This is the third Nantwich landmark named after the 17th century Civil War soldier, General Fairfax. There's Fairfax Bridge on the Waterlode and an apartments development on The Barony, Fairfax Court).

    According to the site plan (above), there is only one road on the development. I thought that it would be Millers Croft, but the developers have gone for Imperial Court - after Imperial Works which the factory on the site was called at one time.

January 2009

The hoardings have been removed from around the apartments block, Fairfax House, on Millstone Lane. Grass has been laid in the front gardens and fencing erected. The apartments look all ready for occupation.

July 2010

Work still seems to be in progress. There is a large wooden hoarding around the centre of the plot so I am not sure what is happening there. Fairfax House, the apartment block, now seems to be fully occupied. This development is featured on a Spotlight On ... feature: 80 new addresses in 10 years. There is still a sign to the left of this picture with an artist's impression of some of the houses, with the heading Miller's Croft. This is possibly the overall name of the development with just the road being Imperial Court.