image for illustration: Coventry swimming baths by E Gammie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic England will not stand in the way of Coventry’s Grade II listed Olympic-sized swimming pool building being demolished, reports BBC News.
BBC News writes:
Historic England… the organisation… responsible for deciding which buildings should be protected with listed status, said whatever replaced it should ‘preserve or enhance the setting of Coventry Cathedral’.
A Historic England spokesperson said: ‘Historic England is not minded to object to the demolition of the Central Baths, given its condition, the nature and cost of remedial works and the absence of viable proposals to secure its future.’
Councillor Jim O’Boyle, Labour cabinet member for regeneration at Coventry City Council, told the BBC he would be sad to see the building go, but he felt it was time with £400,000 a year being spent on mothballing and security costs for the site…’
