{"id":319953,"date":"2025-08-05T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319953\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:50:11","slug":"heritage-objection-to-hotel-plan-for-rotherham-foundry-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319953\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage objection to hotel plan for Rotherham foundry site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Historic England said in its objection: &#8220;The high level of harm that would result from the current proposals is not considered to be outweighed by the potential public or heritage benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said its concerns included the lack of condition surveys to prove alternative, less harmful redevelopment options were unviable, and there was a lack of evidence showing firm interest from hotel operators with demand for a new hotel not clearly established.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Historic England said despite objections, it remained supportive &#8220;in principle&#8221; of the site&#8217;s development and acknowledged the need for its regeneration and new uses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said retaining more of the original buildings would allow a clear reading of the foundry&#8217;s architectural and industrial evolution \u2013 even after the front office range was lost in a 2018 fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Public consultation on the application is ongoing, with a decision expected later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historic England said in its objection: &#8220;The high level of harm that would result from the current proposals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-319953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114976485454020128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}