£7m plan may create heart of a community

Excerpt from Yorkshire Post Published on Thursday 25 August 2011 09:22, click for full story

WITH a little leap of the imagination, you can picture Arthur Scargill strutting down the corridors of Cavendish Court in Doncaster.

It was built in Georgian times as a home for the gentry, but is probably best known as the former northern base of the now defunct National Coal Board (NCB).

The NCB and union officials must have had plenty of heated discussions inside it, especially during the miners’ strike of 1984 to 1985. Now it’s the epitome of sleek tranquility.

If entrepreneur Nadeem Shah has his way, Cavendish Court, which is already home to a vast array of small businesses, will soon be surrounded by restaurants and shops. His company, asset managers Vigo Group, is about to submit a planning application for a £7m scheme which could bring 500 jobs to a site which was once, to quote Mr Shah, “a bit of a dump”.

Mr Shah’s life story is screaming out for screenplay. He is the eldest of seven children who arrived in Britain from Pakistan with their parents when he was nine.

Mr Shah’s grandfather was director-general of land records in India for the British Government. His great uncle was an adviser to King George VI. Proud of his Doncaster connections, Mr Shah remembers watching a young Kevin Keegan..........

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With flexibility said to be key to doing deals in the downturn, TLB Properties is marketing premium offices at the refurbished 8 Cavendish Court on South Parade from £30 a week.

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