A look behind the scenes of the work being carried out at Fort Gilkicker

The site is being turned into housing

Transcript

00:00if you'd like to introduce yourself please yeah so I'm Dennis Beck I'm a

00:03local architect I'm an accredited conservation architect and I'm negotiating

00:12condition discharge and necessary changes to the original very outdated

00:19planning application for the schedule monument for the new developer so what's

00:28going to be happening here what's it being transformed into so the structure is

00:33going to be converted to become a homes for communities and used to be they used

00:42to have the barracks they used to have the soldiers soldiers families children

00:48and it would be really nice to see that life and the family life come back to

00:53this place so how many homes are going to be here when it's complete so we have

00:5722 on the front casemates as a terrace house setting three but three levels and

01:06then four further at the back on the barrack building and what works been

01:11carried out already so far well a lot of the work was more like enabling work and

01:17understanding what the structure is made of and investigating how we can put things

01:23better so we set up utilize where we can put the new staircases we have access to all the

01:34levels now so it makes more use of the existing floor plan available you remove

01:40early 1900s additions where they buried the port all the way to their granite elevation and added

01:51concrete gun emplacements over the roof so we remove all those and we rebuild those arches

02:00and and when is the project due to be completed I think it will be another two year

02:21ạt the most 피-a-walking

02:25car accident

02:28and we will be able to change the new floor plan

02:31and you're able to change the new floor plan

02:32and you're able to change the new floor plan

02:34and then there is the new floor plan

02:37you need to manage the new floor plan

02:39you need to hear the new floor plan

02:43you need the new floor plan