p54t The Clitheroe imes Thursday, May 28lh, 2009 No. 6,408 news and views from the Centre of the Kingdom
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A STAY of execution has been secured for Clitheroe Commu- ' nity Hospital; but thd future of the historic building is by no
means guaranteed., At a meeting'of Kibble, Valley
Council’s planning committee, members voted unanimously to reject the East Lancashire Prima- ry Care Trust’s outline application for demolition of the former, work- house and erection of 52 new- • homes on the site.
. . . I • ' j ................... It.was also agreed that council
officers would work with the appli cant to see if a future scheme to redevelop the Chathum Road site cpuld incorporate all or part of the historic hospital building. Committee members rejected
the proposal because demolishing the hospital would “result in the
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loss of a building of considerable design and character”.
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' Pauline: Wood, chairman of : Clitheroe Civic Society, which has •led the campaign to preserve the building, had presented the com mittee with an alternative scheme
for the site. Not only did it retain . the former Victorian workhouse, but it alOT provided “imaginatively designed” housing, leaving the hos pital building as the “cornerstone for a residential development of real character and innovation”. Speaking on behalf of the PCT
Mr Andrew Dewhurst said a num ber of options to retain part of the. building had been considered, but the outcome had been that apart ments were not “marketable o r . viable” and would reduce the num-
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