Grantham gone

Building sold

Posted - May 14, 2011

The Council has agreed to sell Grantham House, for a sum assumed to be well above £3 million, to a private developer who will refurbish the interior to bring it up to current standards. While this will not create any social housing on the site it will generate funds that can be used to support social housing elsewhere in Jericho, possibly on the canalside site.

Other planning items

Jericho census profile
New community centre timeline
Another makeover for Cranham Street
For a community vision
Multicolour makeover for ‘iconic’ Grantham
Cooperative proliferation
Developing our doorstep
Welcome to Jericho
New health centre on the horizon
Here comes the crowd
JCA gets outline planning permission
Objections to Chiltern railway plans
Mount Place makeover options
Waiting for the water
The Spring Residential phase
The Bellway Homes phase
Jericho by numbers
The first community-led bids -1998-2000

Did you know?

Margaret Thatcher used to live here?

In her Oxford days, she lived at 12 Richmond Road. It is alleged she shared the house with two red-hot communists who lived on a diet of sausages. This may account for her later views on socialists and known dislike of sausages.

Who owns the houses?

In Jericho in 2011, only 21% of households were owner occupiers. Instead, many more people rented their homes: 58% from private landlords and 20% from ‘social’ landlords, mostly the City Council.