The Council for British Archaeology (CBA) have reiterated their objection to proposals to substantially demolish Leicester’s Corah textile factory site. They have joined Leicester Civic Trust, many heritage groups, and a groundswell of local people in asking Leicester City Council to require Corah’s regeneration to reinforce the heritage and identity of the city.

They note that ‘this complex of buildings illustrates how Leicester’s textile industry informed the city’s development from the late 18th century…..The CBA maintain that this application would cause substantial harm to a complex of non designated heritage assets (NDHAs), central to the city’s identity as a globally important textile manufacturing centre’. They conclude that the application ‘still seeks to substantially demolish the Corah Factory, retaining little more than the façade to the Old Textile Building’.

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