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Work to tear down a derelict eyesore plagued by vandals has been delayed after the demolition crew found more asbestos than expected.
The demolition of the old theatre, the last remaining building of the former Tresham College in St Mary’s Road, Kettering, will began in two weeks after the asbestos is removed.
Site manager Andy Seeds said: “The only thing that stands as I speak now is the theatre. Another fortnight it should be down.
“It has gone well considering the amount of asbestos that was in the college which we knew about.
“I would say we are 80 per cent done.”
Mr Seeds, of contractors A R Demolition, said it would only take two to three days for a 36-tonne crane-like machine with a high-reach arm armed with a grabber to pull down the theatre.
As the asbestos is removed workmen are also crushing concrete and brickwork around the site and ripping up slabs of the now-demolished B Block, which is near London Road.
Mr Seeds said: “We hope to be leaving site at the beginning of October.”
Workmen began tearing down the building, which has been derelict since 2007, to make way for 48 private houses and 59 retirement homes, in June. The building, which was built in 1954, has been deteriorating since students moved to a new £20m campus in Windmill Avenue in 2007.
Denise Taylor, of St Mary’s Road, Kettering, said: “It’s better than the eyesore that it was with all the smashed windows."
source: northantset.co.uk
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