If it was up to you, how would the building be used?
Grade II* listing gives a building legal protection from demolition and alterations which could destroy its"historic fabric" or affect its character and appearance.
Little Cassiobury Community Interest Company , formerly Friends of Little Cassiobury, was looking to restore the site for community use and had claimed in December that Hertfordshire County Council hadThe group described the building as “very significant not only locally but nationally” and accused the county council of taking it “from a community matter to just a commercial matter”.
The county council allegedly claimed it would be a detriment to the public purse to transfer an asset worth well into six figures, adding it also needed to consider “Watford’s urgent and growing housing requirement”.Referring to the CIC’s claims, a spokesperson for Hertfordshire County Council said: “We have discussed the possibility of the Friends of Little Cassiobury taking on the property and in 2013 provided a letter of possible intentions for them to seek funding to take on the property.
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