Church View

Church View is Coming Back to Life

Church View — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:21:17 PST

The more eagle eyed among you will have noticed that the site has been pretty quiet in recent months but we’re pleased to announce construction work has restarted at Church View. The announcement comes after uncertainty around funding brought work to a halt at the end of last year. John Giddins, Chair of DCDT said: [...]

Church View Survey, a look at the results so far

Church View — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:34:26 PDT

At the start of the year we set up a survey using Surveymonkey, which we published on the site and on our email footers, where we asked some general questions about Church View. We did this to help constantly assess what the potential market demand was for the development, both within Doncaster and further afield. [...]

Church View Photographer’s Tour II

Church View — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:42:13 PDT

It’s that time again, with progress on the site moving on so quickly and all sorts of major parts of the old Church View now being removed we thought it was about time we reprised the wildly successful Church View Photographer’s Tours. The idea of the tours is to help chart the progress of the [...]

Out with the old

Church View — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:43:03 PDT

Here is the first image of the demolition work at Church View. We plan to make the internal courtyard a fantastic space and hive of activity so we are opening up the east end (Greyfriars Road) entrance that was the main entrance during the last few years of the college. Eventually the other end of [...]

Meet the Church View team: John Giddins

Church View — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:19:20 PDT

John Giddins, Chair of Doncaster CDT and Doncaster NDC, talks about his hopes for Church View and the role it can play in the regeneration of Doncaster. Who are you? John Giddins, Chair of Doncaster Central Development Trust and Doncaster New Deal for Communities, I’m also a Trade Union official for the UCU and before [...]

Church View gets the go ahead

Church View — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:07:15 PDT

It’s a momentous day for everybody involved in the Church View project, we’ve been informed that Doncaster Council have passed our planning application for Church View. The application, which was for 50,000 sq ft of space encompassing 58 new studios, offices and workspaces created around a landscaped courtyard, sailed through. John Wright, Doncaster Central Development [...]

What’s in a name? Quite a lot

Church View — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:22:00 PDT

Doncaster CDT, the body that owns Church View, is also currently developing a portfolio of 30 environmentally friendly residential properties in and around central Doncaster. The mixture of apartments and houses will be let to tenants on long-term, secure agreements and will, much like Church View, have the latest energy efficiency features as standard. The [...]

A virtual Church View gallery?

Church View — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:19:58 PDT

Its been said that if you can remember your time at Church View, you weren’t really there!’ Actually they might have said that about something else, but anyway, they were wrong because we know that you lot were just brimming with anecdotes about your time there – and so it has proved. A big thankyou [...]

Announcing the new name for Church View

Church View — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:16:07 PDT

One of the nicest things happening on the site for the last few months has been the tremendous reaction to the post giving you all the opportunity to suggest a new name for Church View. As part of the planning process it was raised that we would not be able to keep the name as [...]

Reaching out to all the Church Views in the world

Church View — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:20:15 PDT

We’ve already covered the name issue in some detail here and we’ll report back on some specific details about this soon but there’s also another aspect to the Church View name which is quite interesting, specifically that there is quite a lot of them. Church View is, it would seem, a very popular name. Indeed, [...]