The search began, and very soon I noticed the lovely Albert House. A grand Victorian property. It had been converted into offices, so it was difficult to imagine it as a childrens day nursery.
However, I fell in love with it and so began the long road to gaining planning permission. It took months and months and an appeal to gain the permission to convert it. .......funnily enough we still had planning permission problems in 2012 too, resulting in its closure.
After running a very successful day nursery for 13 years, we made the decision as a family to 'call it a day' and prepare to revert the lovely property back into a family home, where we will live.
We easily gained planning permission to revert it back to residential use; as being in a conservation area the council are eager to have these properties converted back to residential use.
So began our newest and most personal property development to date:
We closed the nursery on Friday the 13th April! We especially chose the date, as a lucky omen.... no bad luck or superstitions here.
Once the children and staff had vacated the nursery, we quickly went to work.
The signs came down, the walls came down and all the wallpaper came down....along with fireplaces out and any references to the old business....all out!
We are presently gutting the place back to the bare bones in order to put our stamp on the place and bringing it back to a modern, innovative home, as it would have been to the Victorians if they were to be developing it again today.
Below is the first brick to come down; the first of many
Beautiful
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