A frame of a cruck house before demolition
Green Councillor Douglas Johnson has lodged a planning objection to save a part of Sheffield’s heritage.
The comments are about a property developer’s plans to demolish Bennet Cottage, a medieval house in the beautiful Mayfield valley.
Douglas Johnson commented, “this house is based on a historic ‘cruck’ frame design, the traditional construction of mediaeval timber houses. It appears the developer has deliberately destroyed part of the heritage to avoid it becoming a listed building.”
“It is important for planners to stand up against developers who destroy our cultural heritage for their own profit, as happened in Bristol recently when developers destroyed an ornate Jacobean house the day before it was due to be listed, in order to build student flats.”
could the Greens also please object in writing to Sheffield Council’s dreadful plans to lease our wonderful art deco central library to a developer to turn it into a hotel a destructive plan which would provide no guaranteed financial benefit to the council (a new library being very expensive), and would destroy the ornate interior of this fine building.