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Winter-Newsletter-2016.Pdf DERTBY CIVIC SOCIETY COUNCIL PATRON: His Worship the Mayor of Derby, Cllr. Paul Pegg PRESIDENT: Don Amott, Esq., VICE-PRESIDENTS: Donald Armstrong, Maxwell Craven, Derek Limer, Robin Wood. CHAIRMAN: 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: Robin Wood [103, Whitaker road, 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] HON. EDITOR & CASEWORKER: Maxwell Craven [19, Carlton Road, Derby, DE23 6HB] REPRESENTATIVES: Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust Council of Management (and currently Chairman), 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, Ian Goodwin, Richard Felix, Keith Hamilton, Derek Limer, Roger Pegg, Professor Jonathan Powers & John Sharpe. * 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 must be accompanied by a bona fide name and address if such are to be considered 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. It is printed by Glenwood Printing Ltd., of 2a, Downing Rd, West Meadows, Derby DE21 6HA. A limited number of back numbers of the Newsletter are available from the Editor at the address above at a cost of £2 per copy. * Cover Picture: Uplift your lights: Derby Cathedral, view from the West door towards the chancel, through the Bakewell screen to the baldacchino and retro-choir following the re-decoration of the interior. CONTENTS Editorial 2 New Members 7 Chairman’s Colloquy 8 The Sevenoaks Judgement 9 Some Biblical Advice 10 Correspondence 10 Possibilities 11 Blue Plaquery 12 Derby Listed Buildings Demolished Since 1972 15 Derby Arena Ten Pieces Concert 17 Obituary: Ben Lewers 18 A Couple of Memories of Ben 19 Death of the (Derby) Ram 21 Twenty Years in Twelve Places 22 Reviews 150 Years in Darley Abbey 23 A History of Derby School Cadet Corps 24 John Whitehurst 25 A New Church Secondary School for Derby 27 Derby’s Forgotten Buildings 36: Former County Council Offices 28 North Avenue Darley Abbey 31 West Mill Darley Abbey 32 Re-branding your Newsletter 34 Derby’s Grade II Listed Buildings 34: The Greyhound, Friar Gate 34 A Biographical Dictionary of Derbyshire Architects Pt. II: E – G 39 Das Flussleuchtenhaus 47 Forthcoming Events 48 * 1 FROM BENEATH THE GREEN EYE SHADE DURACELL: IT JUST KEEPS ON GOING! In August proposals for a titanic and apparently exceedingly ugly block of students' residences to be built on the site of the now deceased Duracell 2 building between Agard St and Friar Gate were published, swiftly followed by a full planning application. At the time it struck me as extraordinary how a small North London development company (Jensco) with little identifiable track record of major developments in provincial cities can come in and try and make a quick buck out of a site in one of the East Midland's premier conservation areas. The original Duracell 1 & 2 were approved by the Council's planning committee in the teeth of objections from national amenity society consultees, and English Heritage (now Historic England). All urged the Council to turn it down flat on the grounds that it would seriously affect the setting of a very fine conservation area and badly affect the setting of a grade one listed building in the shape of Pickford's House. The expected occupier was Rolls-Royce, which firm, like the university, invariably gets favoured treatment: hence the sweeping aside of all the objections, not to mention the legal implications. I say legal implications, for the consents allowed in 2010 and in November were almost certainly in breach of the law. This is in the light of two recent legal judgements (over a windfarm at Lyveden New Bild in Northamptonshire and another over housing in the Penshurst Place and village conservation area), where local authorities blithely granted consent for development which would have adversely affected the settings of a grade 1 listed building in once case and a conservation area in the other. The decisions were declared in clear breach of section 66 (1) of the 1990 Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation 2 Areas) Act and were set aside. We can thus now say that the approval granted to Duracell 1 and the latest one next to it were also in clear breach of that section of the Act. The then developer, Lowbridge, even managed to give the impression their development would include a renovation and re-use of Friar Gate Bridge, although not all of us were fooled by that. That application, and the one turned down in autumn 2014, merely claimed that they would enable access to the bridge via steps in return for recouping their substantial losses on Duracell 1 by applying for an even bigger and uglier Duracell 2, rightly rejected. Then we had this consent, allowed on 26th November, which was indeed bigger and uglier. Any development on this site must take its cue from the incomparably elegant Georgian Street, not from Duracell 1, and should be of a scale, materials and proportion that would enable it to convincingly enhance the Conservation Area. One suspects that, realizing the futility of building more office accommodation here, these nice chaps from North London reckoned the largest and cheapest thing they could build would be student flats. Duracell 1 & 2A seen from the Brook looking towards Friar Gate, from the perspective view submitted with the application. Note that, for the purposes of the view, Sir Peter Hilton House (a five storey students’ residence) has been deemed no longer to exist! Then on 2nd December we heard of another application from an outfit called Trent Pad to build an even uglier block of student flats on the site actually next door to Grade I listed Pickford’s House. I refer readers to the photograph in last issue showing Duracell 1 looming over the Georgian garden at Pickford’s. This and the building allowed in November would block all light out from the south, and would very drastically affect the setting of the Listed Grade I building, not to mention the plethora of other listed buildings clustered here. 3 The thought arises that, with hundreds of student flats being erected on Cathedral Road, and three blocks of them built 15 years ago in and around Ashbourne Road, exactly how many more student flats can be filled? My daughter, currently a University student, prefers to rent a suburban bungalow with five friends for the same sort of per head tariff and would hate to be poked into a box-like room in a soul-less block, so reminiscent of the warped social theories of that old Anarcho-syndicalist, Le Corbusier. And if students will not have them, they will become social housing, so people would have to live in them, like it or not. However, Professor Plowden of the University assures me that there is still a considerable need for student accommodation, and I suspect he envisages adding to the profusion of them that Michael Hall oversaw when he was the University’s housing tsar. Not only that, but the pace at which the applications are coming in suggests that the University is in a hurry and that this has caused a feeding frenzy amongst developers. What we may be in for is a sort of university accommodation quarter stretching from Duracell 2 to Nuns’ Street. If you want to build a block of apartments that is not Classical revival but looks really good, how about these on Burleigh Road, Ascot? Our chairman and I have resolved to open a conversation with the university to ensure that if such a vision is in the frame that it proceeds in such a way that enhances this fairly fragile area with so much rich history. After all, it would ill behove the University, as a centre for culture, learning and the arts to be seen as destroying the abundant heritage of the town in which flourishes. There is probably not a lot of profit for a developer in erecting student residences, but that should be no excuse, especially as there have been other developments in other towns where really good buildings – and better still adaptations of existing buildings – have emerged from a similar process. Adaptation is the secret. The University demolished Longdon’s Mill in Agard Street to build Sir Peter Hilton House, a structure on the same epic scale, when for the same money the 1804 mill complex (which was not in particularly poor condition) could have been adapted. Thomas Fish of Nottingham had just this idea a year or two later when they proposed to adapt part of Bridgett’s steam silk mill on Bridge Street for the same purpose. 4 Tax office Glasses factory LGII* LGI Pickford’s House Trent Pad application Duracell 2A/Jensco (November 26th Approval) Duracell 1 as built LGII* Map of the S. end of the Friar Gate Conservation Area showing the vulnerable sites and the developments, built, approved and proposed. Shaded buildings are listed, those above grade II are marked. But Fish overlooked one thing: the importance of the building itself – the first steam driven silk mill, probably in England, given an enhanced re-listing by English Heritage thanks to the 5 meticulous research of our member Peter Billson and the Industrial Section of the Archaeological Society.
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