A move to make former Hull trawler office a listed building has failed, as a bid to secure listed building status for a long-standing eyesore property in Hull has been rejected, reports the Hull Daily Mail.
… empty for more than 40 years…
…application….for statutory listing has been rejected…
Hull Daily Mail writes:
A bid to secure listed building status for a long-standing eyesore property in Hull has been rejected. The derelict former Lord Line trawler office on St. Andrew’s Dock has been empty for more than 40 years.
Two recent applications by current owners Manor Mill Resorts Ltd. to demolish the building and construct apartments on the site have been refused by city councillors amid concerns over the scheme’s proposed design and access….
Now it has emerged that a fresh application by Hull City Council to consider the Lord Line for statutory listing has been rejected by Historic England.
Securing listed status would have provided greater protection for the building under planning law.
A report for next week’s council planning committee says: “After carefully considering the contents of the council’s application, it was judged not to provide any substantial new evidence that was not considered during the previous assessments to list in 2014 and 2003.
“Consequently, the previous decisions by the Secretary of State not to add the building to the list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest stands.”
Applications for listing can be submitted without any involvement of a building’s owners.
The only currently listed buildings on the former fish dock is the adjacent Grade II listed hydraulic tower and pump house.
They date back to when the dock first opened in 1883 and were designed to provide power to operate the lock gates.
The Lord Line building was constructed in 1949 and opened in the following year.
All three buildings are derelict and have been extensively vandalised in recent years.
Their dangerous condition prompted Hull West and Hessle MP Emma Hardy to call for changes in legislation two years ago…’
