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Demolition of the former Swindon College Regent Street site from Edmund Street. |
For a world that's increasingly experienced online, with events seen through a glass-look screen, regeneration is refreshingly different.
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The Swindon College sign clings to the wall for a short time longer. |
You can produce shiny websites and exciting, eye-catching artist's impressions of grand plans, but you've still got to physically build the project.
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For those residents of Edmund Street coming back from work tonight, their view and street has quickly changed. |
Until that physical activity happens, all those expectations and plans mean little.
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Bite-sized chunks taken out of the roof, with the town hall clock tower in the background. |
The demolition of the former Swindon College began last week and the residents of Edmund Street are currently getting a grandstand view. The view of the workshop buildings will just be a memory in a few days, as they're the first structures on the site to come down with the demolition.
Our regeneration starts here, in unassuming Edmund Street.
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