After the developers spending much of the spring and summer laying foundations, suddenly and rapidly new buildings are appearing on the site. There will be 69 properties in total, a mixture of terraced houses and flats, and they are already for sale. The developers website here gives a good impression of what they will look like.
Already a row of houses at the top end of the site is nearly complete, photo below.
Buildings are also appearing rapidly on the rest of the site, as the picture below shows.
In the summer we described that major strengthening work was taking place on the tall listed wall dividing the site from the A6.
By July, the girders and cladding in the picture, which now occupy most of the former pavement, were put in place and the lay-by alongside closed. Since then much of the stone wall has been repointed and two glass windows have been inserted high up. Now a very large crane has been installed at the back of the wall (see picture below) and foundations are being laid for large brick buttresses, which once built will stabilise the wall. Once complete, the girders and cladding will be removed and the lay-by and pavement reopened. This was due to be in August but has now been extended to February 2026.
Meanwhile the listed Dye House at the front of the site (attached to the wall described above) has been completely renovated and is already partly occupied as a storage warehouse for the wedding dresses of the Ivory White shop in Duffield and the Bloom Reformer Pilates studio, website here.
