The House No More
Alas, the demolition brigade is now setting about the razing of Hall Green’s historic Highfield House. We hope that Stone Developments are satisfied with themselves and their work on this ‘position potential product’ as they describe it in their atrocious sales-speak. This destruction is legitimised vandalism and it remains a total disgrace.
Those members of the Planning Committee that voted for the demolition and those officers that recommended it should be ashamed of themselves. A building that was of historic importance to the area has been sacrificed on the altar of profit motivated mediocrity to be replaced by another intensive development including yet more flats.
As if there weren’t enough in the area as it is, with many remaining unsold. Perhaps that will prove to be a sting in the tail. The sad scene at the corner of Highfield Road and Robin Hood Lane underlines the necessity of preserving all that we have got left.
