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Derby could be next to lose its UNESCO heritage status amid plans to erect a 17-storey apartment block opposite an historic silk mill.
Culture experts at the Paris-based organisation are concerned about Derbyshire’s Derwent Valley Mills after a council approved plans for the city’s tallest building.
Just two months ago, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation stripped Liverpool of its World Heritage Site status in July for over-developing its historic Victorian docks.
Derwent Valley Mills, which stretches 15 miles along the River Derwent, won world heritage status in 2001 as it is home to the world’s first ‘modern’ factories.
Derby could be next to lose its UNESCO heritage status amid plans to erect a 17-storey apartment block opposite an historic silk mill
Pioneered by 18th century inventor Sir Richard Arkwright, the mills offer ‘fascinating insights into life at the time of the Industrial Revolution.’
UNESCO has raised concerns about two recent planning decisions made within or close to the Derwent Valley
