IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Green light for residential scheme in Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage Site

Amber Valley Borough Council has agreed revised plans for a site overlooking the River Derwent and within the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage Site reports Business Link East Midlands.

image for illustration: Milford Mill Weir / Alan Murray-Rust, Wikimedia Commons

Business Link East Midlands writes:

69 new homes will now be delivered on the historic site, which is within the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage Site…..

… Wavensmere Homes has already spent over £250,000 on archaeological investigations on site throughout 2023, while amending the original planning application to enable the 4.7-acre development to be gas free and fully compliant with new building regulations…..

Dating back to 1780, Milford Mills is a former cotton mill which housed some of the world’s first mechanised industrial spinning factories…

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