Campaigners fighting to save Shrewsbury’s ‘modernist icon’ Shirehall have urged the council to prevent the building from being demolished for future redevelopment.
put forward plans to move staff into across town into the Guildhall as part of a long-term ambition to vacate its current base, which it says is now too large for its needs and too expensive to run.
But while the site could now be sold to boost council coffers, campaigners from built heritage group Shrewsbury Civic Society say pulling down one the county’s most prominent modernist buildings would be an act of “short-term thinking”, and has urged the council to protect the building if the site is sold.
“It’s iconic and to me it reflects a time of change from the war generation to the ‘hippy’ generation when everything was challenged and new ideas came in; this reflects that time. However the civic society says the building has “untapped potential for future uses and adaptation” and has written to the council asking for its intentions. It also says it will write to councillors individually asking them to make their position clear on the future of the building.
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