Urban waste

Following my report of the rather luxurious shed housing the cafeteria at Sainbury's at reference 1, I now report on another shed, until recently the home of Dagenham Motors in East Street. The place from which, as it happens, we bought our current car. Shed illustrated left.

The Epsom Ford operation, at least the sales part if not the maintenance part, has now moved to a fine new building on the Longmead Industrial estate. not very far at all from the horse noticed at reference 2. Maybe Ford will take an interest in the maintenance of standards in their new area generally. The other good news is that the fine new building has been built on the steel frame of an old building, so ecological to that extent. There is also some kind of green membrane underneath the brick paving to the outside areas, with the chaps laying the bricks thinking that the membrane was something to do with weeds. Gmaps 51.340494, -0.265546 reveals the mark 1 building, next to Screwfix.

The bad news is that we now have a not very old shed, with spacious office accommodation above, surplus to requirements, at least surplus to Ford requirements. I suppose it would be possible to convert the building into residential use - the fate of other previously commercial premises nearby - but it might actually be cheaper to knock the present building down and start again, wasteful though that seems.

Watch this space.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/no-score.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/lies.html.