Calls to rebuild historic workshop on Coalbrookdale AGA site after demolition over safety concerns
Residents are calling for a historic building on the former AGA foundry in Coalbrookdale to be rebuilt, four years after it was demolished.
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Retrospective planning permission is being sought by Shropshire Homes for the demolition of the Pattern Shop on the former Coalbrookdale Works.
Shropshire Homes purchased the vacant plot, the former home to the Coalbrookdale AGA foundry, back in 2018.
In April 2021, they applied for permission to build 101 homes on the site, a plan that looked to be going full steam ahead until the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos), a body which makes recommendations to Unesco over world heritage sites, intervened.
The chairman of the Icomos-UK World Heritage Committee warned that the development would transform the site "into a dense, high-rise housing estate" and led the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to warn that the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site could be placed at risk, and might ultimately be delisted if the proposal went ahead.
After almost three years of stagnation, Shropshire Homes asked for the scheme to be determined by a planning inspector, who ultimately dismissed the appeal - refusing planning permission for the site.
