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PATRON: Her Worship the Mayor, Cllr DERBY CIVIC SOCIETY COUNCIL PATRON: Her Worship the Mayor, Cllr. Mrs. Linda Winter PRERSIDENT: Don Amott, Esq. VICE PRESIDENTS: Donald Armstrong, Maxwell Craven, Derek Limer, Robin Wood. CHAIRMAN: Cllr. Alan Grimadell [3, Netherwood Court, Allestree, Derby DE22 2NU] VICE CHAIRMAN: Ashley Waterhouse [33, Byron Street, Derby DE23 6ZY] HON SECRETARY: David Ling [67, South Avenue, Darley Abbey, Derby DE22 1FB] HON MEMBERSHIP SEC’Y: Cllr. Robin Wood [103 Whitaker Rd., Derby DE23 6AQ] HON TREASURER: Phil Lucas [26, St. Pancras Way, Little Chester, Derby DE1 3TH] HON ACTIVITIES SUB-COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: David Parry [110, Kedleston Road, Derby DE22 1FW] EDITOR & CASEWORKER: Maxwell Craven [19, Carlton Rd, Derby, DE23 6HB] REPRESENTATIVES: Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust Council of Management: Cllr. Robin Wood Conservation Area Advisory Committee: Ian Goodwin COUNCIL (in addition to those named above, who serve on the Council ex officio): Laurence Chell, Carole Craven, Richard Felix, Keith Hamilton, Roger Pegg, Emeritus Professor Jonathan Powers, John Sharpe & Thorsten Sjölin (on behalf of the Darley Abbey Society). * The opinions expressed herein are entirely those of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the Society, its council or its editor. All contributions submitted under noms-de-plume/pseudonyma must be accompanied by a bona fide name and address if such are to be accepted for publication. The Newsletter of the Derby Civic Society is normally published twice a year by the Society c /o 19, Carlton Road, Derby DE23 6HB and is printed by Glenwood Printing Ltd., of 2a Downing Road, West Meadows, Derby DE21 6HA. A limited number of back numbers of the Newsletter are available from the editor at the above address @ £2 per copy. * Cover picture: St. Mary’s Bridge, north side, photographed from the garden of the Bridge Inn, Mansfield Road, February 2016. It was designed by Thomas Harrison of Chester and built under the auspices of the Second Improvement Commission 1789-1794 (the latter date is incised on the vermiculated rustication of the SW cutwater just above water level). The balustrade was originally of cast iron from Alderwasley Ironworks, but was replaced in stone by the Council in the 1970s after a lorry had damaged it. This view will soon be lost as the Environment Agency’s un-necessary and hugely expensive ‘once in a hundred year event’ anti-flood scheme (mockingly called ‘Our City Our River’) will place a substantial wall between the pub and the river’s edge here. C O N T E N T S Editorial 1 Modernism versus Traditional 6 Chairman’s column 7 New Members 10 Clock on! 11 Derby’s Forgotten Buildings No. 37, RowditchBarracks. 12 Derby’s Listed Grade II Buildings No. 35, Wilderslow 15 Architsctural Curiosities 19 Lookalikes 21 The Field: a Note 22 Lincoln’s Waterside Shopping Centre 22 An Important Ruling: South Wingfield Manor 23 Another Important Ruling: Darley Abbey 24 Friends of Friar Gate Bridge 26 Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall 27 Lunar21 Symposium 29 A Discovery in Traffic Street 31 In Praise of the Mercury 35 Blue Plaquery 40 Pokémon Go! Comes to Derby 43 Kingsway Retail Park 45 * EDITORIAL In 2015 a first rate architect belonging to an internationally rated firm produced a report into the best way to preserve the ambience of historic towns. The architect was Spencer de Grey and the firm Lord Foster’s, although the latter’s eponymous founder is a practitioner whose work I invariably dismiss out of hand as a pretentious modernist who ought not to be let loose within 1,000 miles of the UK. That not wholly irrational prejudice, however, should not detract from the work of his noble colleague, whose report is exceedingly pertinent. The problem is that as cities and towns become increasingly in demand as places to live, the ambience which attracts people to them becomes rapidly degraded by formulaic development around the periphery (permanently devaluing the setting) and by inappropriate development in the historic heart. Furthermore, such development is also driven by the imposition on local authorities of housing quotas, which have to be met in order to ensure the payment of various subventions. The report was commissioned by the Duke of Richmond’s heir the Earl of March & Kinrara whose Goodwood estate is perilously close to Chichester, a historic town in West Sussex almost under siege from potential house-builders. The aristocratic de Grey argues that British planners need to look urgently at Continental practice as a way to resolve this conundrum. 1 He compares the centres of a number of UK towns to their continental equivalents. In the UK the number of people living in a town centre has long been in serious decline, whereas on the Continent, it is increasing. He quotes King’s Lynn a former post-war ‘overspill’ town, with a decaying town centre, currently lived in by 4,800 people. In contrast, Delft, a town of equivalent size with an equally unspoilt historic but very thriving centre, boasts over 12,000. The de Grey study demonstrates that almost all the housing proposed for various English towns and cities, currently being directed to greenfield sites, can be accommodated within the existing envelope of the settlement. This raises the population density which in turn supports shops, services and cafes whilst reducing dependency on the car, something Continental towns and cities have been doing for a long time, also using not only their brown field sites but also their sometimes rich stock of historic buildings. The piece (below) on the Lunar 21 symposium ids of relevance here. This eminently sensible approach to wholly sustainable town development is one that the present planning system is not geared up to deliver. For a start, many town centre sites are under multiple ownership. Two typical examples obtrude from Derby’s recent planning history. First, Duckworth Square, until recently multiply owned. When I was on the Board of Derby Cityscape, developing this site was considered a priority, but the five owners of various chunks of it all wanted unrealistically high prices for their portions and huge patience was needed to negotiate the sale of all the parts, only achieved five years later when the residuary post- Cityscape body, from 2010 part of the Council, managed to wrap up a deal last year. Old Blacksmith’s YardL view of the blocked access into George Yard, March 2016. [M. Craven] 2 Second, is the example of Old Blacksmith’s Yard, Sadler Gate. The reason why there is no exit from Old Blacksmith’s Yard to George Yard, which would have improved usage, is that the ten feet from one to the other fell under three ownerships, each being used against the developer David M Adams as a ransom strip. Hence a blind archway where once there should have been a gateway. The developmental carcrash that is Duckworth Square, complete with derelict brutalist hotel, as seen from Becket Well Lane, 7/12/2015. [M. Craven] Therefore this sort of problem (remarkably common) can deter developers and planners whilst picking off green field sites inevitably becomes the more easy option. With local authorities thinning out staff to save money, the time and effort are not seen as being worth the candle. Worse, our model for expansion is heavily developer-led, so picking off the easiest and cheapest options – green field sites - saves them money and keeps dividends up. The entire planning system needs radical overhaul if we are to have decent towns and cities in a generation or so. The system needs to be led by planning criteria not by developers, as on the Continent. Developers will still build, but the places where they will build will be subject to tighter control and scrutiny. As it is, we get developers, councillors, planners and non- accountable ‘fixers’ like John Forkin banging on about developments making the City ‘more vibrant’, yet firms like Clowes Investments are still allowed to sit for decades on vast segments of inner city land like the GNR station and goods yard, the land between Sadler Gate and St. James’s Street and other portions in the City centre, as land banks, occasionally getting planning consent for some grandiose scheme but never implementing them, usually for a variety of unconvincing reasons, whilst the land appreciates steadily in value on their balance sheets. 3 This is not ‘developer led’ planning but ‘developer hindered’ and strikes one as completely unacceptable and essentiually contemptuous of the community. Powers exist to force such land back into public use, but the Council, bereft of any vision or competence and frightened to commit resources which may be difficult to recover, never acts. After nearly 40 years the GNR site, despite three plans for its development, has never been touched, yet a repairs notice could have been served on the bonded warehouse 25 years ago when it was first vandalised, but nothing happened. Were one to be served now it might act as a wake-up call to the developers and remind them of their responsibilities to the community. Friar Gate Station 12/5/2011: land for hundreds of houses going to waste for 32 years. View of the westernmost platforms looking east. [M. Craven] What Derby requires to become ‘vibrant’ (if that’s what people want: ‘commercially sustainable and attractive to live in’ would be a preferable way of describing it) is to stop fantasising about grandiose projects nobody wants to promote and build houses or apartments on Duckworth Square, Friar Gate Station, in the GNR bonded warehouse, in the St. James’s area, in the St. George’s area (unless that really is going to be the Dean’s new school) and elsewhere Another way of trying to implement this sort of fundamental change lies in the notional revival of the Michael Heseltine inspired ‘Living over the shops’ (LOTS) scheme of 1986, along with legislation to enable such a scheme to actually be attractive and to work.
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