Build future to respect our history.Byline: Maurice Fitzmaurice HAVE you ever walked through Belfast city centre Coordinates: Belfast City Centre is the central business district of the City of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The City Centre was originally centred around the Donegall Street area. and looked above the ground floor? There's actually a few nice buildings about, if you blank out the ugly shopfronts that have been cut and pasted from the High Street text book. Even the greatest Philistines surely don't want to live in a town devoid of any period features - to use the Location, location, location Location, Location, Location is a popular Channel 4 property programme, presented by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer. The reality show follows two real estate experts as they try to find the perfect home for a different set of buyers each week. It first aired in May 2001. vernacular. For years it seems some developers have been willing to level the Victorian buildings that make up the fabric of our built history if they stand in the way of ludicrous apartments. So no surprises that some character drove his diggers Diggers, members of a small English religio-economic movement (fl. 1649–50), so called because they attempted to dig (i.e., cultivate) the wastelands. They were an offshoot of the more important group of Puritan extremists known as the Levelers. through a Newcastle terrace. He could be fined pounds 30,000 or even forced to rebuild. More likely neither will happen and buildings that can never really be replaced will continue to make way for flats you couldn't swing a cat in. But that's progress, isn't it? |
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