Good news for fellow coffee drinkers out there- following a decision of the Development and Control committee on Wednesday we are now due to get a coffee house/cafe in a prominent location right in the heart of Empress Ward.
One area that I have constantly been saying that we need to improve in Farnborough is the appearance of the town when people are arriving in it. One of the worst offenders in this regard is the old HSBC building on the corner of Victoria Road and Farnborough Road.
Listed by Historic Farnborough as one of the worst eyesores in the borough, this building has been standing empty for over a year and is frankly depressing. As the building was designed and built in the 1960s I can only speculate on what substances those involved may have been on at the time when they decided that people might like to live or work in this Soviet style concrete elephant of a building!
Luckily, we have now approved an application for a hotel to revamp (its a pity we couldn't demolish it and start again) and reuse the site. In addition to this they will be building a cafe in the space currently occupied by the concrete stilts that the building is on.
As this area is currently a site for antisocial behaviour and youth drinking I think this is a fantastic idea. It will also provide a much more pleasant spectacle for people driving in to Farnborough and will be great for those of us who like coffee!
We do not yet know who will occupy the cafe but we can only hope it is one of those commercial chains like Starbucks who so annoy the whinging left but who happen to serve good coffee in a nice environment.
Farnborough is taking off!
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