Slades Farm

Slades Farm is an area of Ensbury Park, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

[2] There had been some modernisation of the farm over the years - in 1945 the trustees of the Talbot estate, who owned the freehold, applied for planning permission for a 'milk cooling shed'[3] there - but by the 1960s the entire site had fallen out of use.

When Bournemouth Council eventually purchased the land, proposals were drawn up for around 400 new dwellings ranging from bedsits for the elderly to three-bedroomed houses, the nucleus of which would be the newly-cut Slade's Farm Road.

[4] An additional development around this time was Slade's Farm Secondary School, catering for children with special educational needs: this opened in September 1975.

[5] As for Slade's Farmhouse, this was given Grade II listed status when the above-mentioned developments began, but having failed to find a use for the building - and in view of its condition, after many years of non-occupation - the council applied to the Department of the Environment to have it demolished in November 1975.