A historic Chesterfield building is being knocked down – creating ‘disappointment’ over proposals to use the site as a temporary car park.
The former courthouse complex on Brimington Road, near the train station, is being demolished – with an application submitted to create a temporary car park on the site.
This move was labelled as ‘disappointing’ by the Chesterfield and District Civic Society – who said they were not consulted over the proposal to knock down the historic building.
The Civic Society is currently reviewing its existing list of at risk properties, and Howard Borrell said: “I think it’s fair to say that this building would have been added.” Photo: Brian Eyre
Reporting on the then new building project’s initiation, in its edition of January 18 1913, the Derbyshire Times lamented that due to its situation the building would ‘not do full justice to the designers’. In May the following year, it was described it as ‘plain and substantial’. Photo: Brian Eyre