Work is to start in the autumn on a new housing project on the site of the Marlborough’s Bridge House garage, which will give a new look to the much criticised London Road entrance to the town.
Wiltshire Council has approved a scheme to sweep away the garage and some of the dilapidated buildings adjoining it with the conversion of one listed cottage into four dwellings while another six new homes are erected where the garage stands.
“There is a substantial amount of work to be done before we even start work on site,” Alex Dean, who took over the garage with his brother Daniel in November, 2011, told Marlborough News Online.
“However, we expect this to commence in the last quarter of 2014 and we would expect the entire development to be completed within three years.”
The Dean brothers decided to close the garage after taking it over from their father, who originally bought the site from the Dick Lovett Porsche Centre in 1986 and created the petrol filling station in 1994.
They incorporated the company Bridge Fuels and at the same time founding the company Bridge Homes to pursue the eventual redevelopment of the site, which has received the backing of Marlborough Town Council.
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