Where can I get ahold of blueprints or find information about buildings now demolished?

OzyOly · 23 Dec 2011 at 22:12

I've just been looking at old photos of my home town (morecambe) from when I was a young child and there are fairground attractions, swimming pools and parks that I had forgotten about.

Such as this building that I have very little memory of.

A web search doesn't give me much info how the layout of these old demolished buildings but I wanted to jog my memory about what these places were like. They were demolished no more than 20 years ago.

Are blueprints/layouts/owner information registered for buildings at all? Or are they kept by the companies that build them?

It's not important I'm just interested.

Biohazard · 23 Dec 2011 at 22:12

Council planning department. That's if they keep redundant stuff.

OzyOly · 23 Dec 2011 at 22:13

Biohazard said:
Council planning department. That's if they keep redundant stuff.

That would be at a town hall then? I could enquire there. Thanks.

Biohazard · 23 Dec 2011 at 22:15

OzyOly said:
That would be at a town hall then? I could enquire there. Thanks.

Maybe but I would have thought some offices somewhere more like it depends where you are really.

Phone them, ask for planning-development.

OzyOly · 23 Dec 2011 at 22:23

So far on my trail I have found that morecambe town council doesn't exist it's now run by Lancaster City Council and they have an online search for planning permission. They have records of demolition around Bubbles Swimming pool, but not for the actual building itself...

I'll give the council a phone in the new year.

Edit - Now that you have put me on the right track I've found the company name, the last director and may have found his home address from 2007, if he's still alive it might be worth sending a letter to him.

Biohazard · 23 Dec 2011 at 22:51

Is the company still trading?

They could still have records, some house builders keep plans pretty much indefinitely/permanently.

OzyOly · 23 Dec 2011 at 22:55

Biohazard said:
Is the company still trading?

They could still have records, some house builders keep plans pretty much indefinitely/permanently.

Nah, the company is dissolved.

http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/904195897

It was along shot anyway. If I win £36m an euro millions I'm so gonna rebuild the place, even if I have to pick up Brian Bromiley from a retirement home.

233 · 23 Dec 2011 at 22:58

28 days later perhaps?

know theres a lot of places they have urbexed before demolition