Developers have amended submissions for the Oban House planning application.
The application (22/00166/FUL) still includes the demolition of heritage Oban House in its entirety, and there is a dramatic change to the design of the new build.
View the latest documents here or download the PDF below.
The Civic Society shall be continuing to OBJECT to the demolition and new building.
Why Do We Object?
Demolition of high quality buildings is not only bad for the environment; unsustainable, and irreversible, it does not make economical sense. Repurposed heritage buildings are valuable assets; the materials and workmanship simply do not exist in construction today.
Where the building exists within a Conservation Area (as Oban House does), it has extra value for the community because these building are either: rarer, excellent examples of their type; are recognised as contributing to the ‘sense of place’ and character an area or town, or of particular community value because of their use or inhabitants. Oban House includes all three!
To bulldoze a heritage buildings is to not only lose a piece of heritage forever, but also lose a positive part of the Conservation Area, detrimentally impacting it substantially.
Beeston has already lost much of its architectural and spacial heritage: The Maltings, the Town Hall being but two of the most recent. Therefore, it is for these reasons primarily that Beeston Civic Society so strongly objects to the demolition of Oban House.
We believe the building should, and can, be retained and extended. Manor Surgery needs new premises (and the Civic Society fully supports their endeavour) and a repurposed Oban House would provide a stunning new location in which to extend their practice.
To read more about why Oban House should be retained and sympathetically extended, see our campaign page. It includes a booklet containing lots of information about the building: who built it; who lived in it – and our objection in full.
Want to Help?
The best to way to help us SAVE OBAN HOUSE, is to comment on the Planning Application and OBJECT.
Many people, groups, and societies such as The Victorian Society have objected to the plan to flatten the building, because they recognise the value that it has for our community, and for the owners.
Need help commenting?
The best objections are your own, individual comments. If you do need help commenting on planning applications, see our guidance page here!
Don’t forget to keep a copy of what you wrote, so that you can email it to your local Councillors and even your MP, if necessary.
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