Demolition of Brunel's Totnes Engine House

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Curiouser and Curiouser

http://www.totnesonline.com/brunel/DCMS/

This link will keep you up to date with whats going on;
Documents relating to the DCMS ruling against listing the Brunel Pumping House buildings at Totnes station

DCMS ruling 22 Feb 2008

English Heritage advice

Statutory Criteria for listing

To quote

quote:"Heritage Champion, Town Councillor Pruw Boswell, was alerted late last night (13 Feb) that Brunel's Atmospheric Pumping House by the station on the old Dairy Crest site was being demolished. Contractors were seen removing the slate roof on both sides. TLC has sought to get to the bottom of this. Totnes Museum Administrator, Alan Langmaid, said that developers had to give 28 days' notice of a demolition, and that has not been done, so they are acting outside the normal procedures. When asked, the site staff said that they were 'repairing the roof' but it is common practice for developers to make holes in the roofs of buildings so that the rain gets in and the building becomes unsafe and this makes the argument to demolish much easier. There is no way they are repairing the roof, as there is no scaffolding up. Neither the Museum nor Cllr Boswell appear able to do anything to stop this scandal."

Note the ...cough.... repair work! Embarress the company... shame them... make them say that its all a misunderstanding...

and English Heritage... what are you playing at?




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