Banner Homes demolishes an old chicken farm in Brooks Green, West Sussex to replace the unsightly sheds with five luxury homes. January 2012 to October 2012. View the updated video at kinsbrook.co.uk
Thany you @newhomeshist - the show home opened on 2nd and 3rd March, but we should be build complete on all five homes by summer. Already, the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive!
The vans and cabover trucks gave it away for me. That and all the brick. Houses in the US are made of wood, and construction workers drive pickup trucks.
Glad you like them; we are very proud of them so far. You'll be pleased to hear the Woodland Way brochure has just gone to the printers! You seem to be a big fan of Banner - do you own a Banner home?
Has anyone any idea as to what the roofing material is on these old chicken sheds ?. It used to be quite common to roof chicken sheds with asbestos corrugated sheets, as it had certain heat retaining proprieties. The roofing material looks like asbestos sheets. If it is the case that the roofing is asbestos , then to dismantle such material in this manner , contaminating the entire site and surrounding areas is beyond belief and criminal. Can someone please enlighten . .
mulders drift it's more than likely cement fibre asbestos sheeting has about 0.008% asbestos inside it (I've stripped many of the sheets off) breaking them won't release the fibres inside but if you take a grinder or something to make it a fine powder then you will be releasing the asbestos Into the atmosphere, if they are asbestos then technically they shouldn't be breaking them up but depending on age they usually crumble up anyways. Hope this helps
mulders drift it looks like corrugated asbestos/concrete mix. It was a commonly used material on industrial roofs and garages. There is usually strict controls on demolishing and disposing the sheets.
Its all a bit 20th century - same old same old. When in Australia I noticed their new houses are much more family oriented homes - shared spaces - this is just recycling the ideas from the post war housing boom.
WOW!!!! You took an UGLY site and ripped away the unsightly buildings, replacing them with 5 beautiful multimillion pound pastoral luxury mansions each over 5,200 sq ft that respect the Sussex countryside. Good for you. I have the colour brochure on this site now, as well as some other flagship priced high-end trophy Banner developments like Regency Gate, Montagu Gate, Egerton Park, Hill View Road, Bournewood Grove, The Spinney, and White Friars. Can't wait for brochures for Woodland Way!
