AN historic building in the centre of a York village is set to be demolished after council planners raised no objections to a proposal.
City of York Council development managers responded to a prior notification for demolition application submitted by Churchill Living Limited to knock down a two-storey nineteenth century former “cottage/barn” in The Village, Wigginton, and a smaller single storey building on the same site.
A case officer report said the building is neither formally listed, nor within a conservation area and “as such, there is no statutory protection for the building.”
The report said “the site would be graded and landscaped” and “would be seeded and any areas left open to the boundary would be enclosed with timber-boarded fencing.”
A petition against the planned demolition raised more than 450 signatories date (March 24) and York Civic Trust said in response to a previously refused demolition submission for “inadequate method of site restoration” that “the application has not recognised the historic barn on the site as a non-designated heritage asset.”
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