Ross-on-Wye

On the 13^th August 2005 the station was looking rather untidy and had been empty and up for sale for quite a few months awaiting redevelopment.

The site was up for sale with planning for 16 luxury apartments.

Today the canopy over the forecourt was pulled down using the digger and a grab on the arm leaving the building mostly intact.

Today the main building was demolished and tidied leaving a relatively small pile of rubble.

Now the concrete of the forecourt has started to be pulled up to allow access to the old fuel tanks.

Now the old fuel tanks are being dug out leaving a strong smell of fuel in the area.

The tanks are taking a few days to remove.

Today a crushing device was delivered to the site and the rubble and concrete started to be crushed and dropped into one of the pits where a tank was located.

The low loader blocked Gloucester Road for a short while causing minor congestion.

Crushing and digging continues ...

Yesterday, the crushing machine broke down and one of the hydraulic motors had to be replaced which meant there was a short delay in the crushing.

By this evening, most of the site had been now been leveled off.

Nearly all of the concrete has been crushed and used as a basis for the site leaving only the heaps of top soil and the metal piping and tanks to deal with.

The site is now leveled and some of the machinery has been removed. This leaves only heaps of soil on the site.

The site has now been further leveled off and the front of the site fenced off ready for work to start. This does make taking photos rather tricky as can be seen to the right. A new rear fence has been erected.

Concrete blocks have been delivered and further digging has been continuing. Surveying and various additional marker posts have been added.

The building has now started and the foundation walls and the floor hangers have started to have been added ready for concrete to be poured into the space and then for the main walls and structure of the buildings to be added above.

Behind the pallet there is already some pre-fabricated concrete floor reinforcing in place ready for a slab floor and to the right of the shot are some stacked up bits of the reinforcing ready to be installed.

Here the foundations and floor supports can be seen and possibly the membrane to keep the damp out of the floor. On top of these walls, the concrete reinforcing is added and then concrete is poured between them to form the floor.

Here the base for the floors of two buildings can be seen with the various soil pipes and ventilation openings fitted and standing proud of the surface. The building on the left is further advanced than the one on the right.

Here the lower level of the floor can be seen. The soil pipes are at the front and back of the building.

The scaffold towers over the surroundings and possibly the top layer of the scaffold shows the approximate height of the building.

By Wednesday the lower floor had been built, and in the last few days the upper walls have been put up.

More of the roof supports are now in place.

The building structure is coming on well and it looks like the roof should soon be added. The second building has not been started yet.

The roof is now on the first building.

The scaffold for the second building shows that the next building will soon be constructed.

The roof tiles and windows are now fitted to the first building, the 2nd one is up the 2nd floor level, and the third one is about to have the floor base added.

The roof tiles are being fitted to building two (as seen to the left) and building three is now up to the first floor level.

The roof is now nearly complete on building two.

Here we see that:
Building 1
Building one seems to be pretty much externally complete except for rendering and painting.

Building 2
Building two has about half it's external brickwork in place and work continues on that. The roof is nearly complete except for some of the ridge tiles.

Building 3
Building three has shot up this week and will soon be ready to have the roof fitted.

Not a great deal has visably happened this week as the weather has been wet and unpleasant.