Nottingham’s Castle Meadow office buildings, which were occupied by around 2,000 HM Revenue & Customs workers until 2021, have been Grade II-listed by the Department of Culture Media and Sport, reports Nottinghamshire Live.
image for illustration: Castle Meadow Business Park by Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
…the series of 1990s buildings….some of the youngest listed buildings in the UK…
Nottinghamshire Live writes:
Nottingham’s former HMRC offices have been awarded with a special status as plans to turn it into a new University of Nottingham campus progress. The Castle Meadow office buildings, which were occupied by around 2,000 HM Revenue & Customs workers until 2021, have been Grade II-listed by the Department of Culture Media and Sport, affording them protected status due to their “special architectural or historic interest”.
This has made the series of 1990s buildings, which were purchased by the University of Nottingham in 2021 and are currently being made into a new city campus, some of the youngest listed buildings in the UK. The university explained it had been working with heritage bodies and the complex’s architect since buying the site, and that the listing would not affect its plans.
A University of Nottingham spokesperson said: “The University has been working with English Heritage and the original architect Michael Hopkins & Partners since the purchase of the site with the knowledge that the buildings may become listed in due course…”
The campus was created after HMRC, known as Inland Revenue at the time, announced in 1989 that it would relocate almost 2,000 roles from London to Nottingham…
This led to an unusual open architectural competition being launched in 1992, with the architects Michael Hopkins & Partners emerging as winners and building the complex in 1993-94…
