Bolton Council has quashed planning permission to demolish a historic school building and replace it with a temporary car park after it was served with an injunction threatening judicial review by a conservation body.
The Council admitted the consent was unlawful after SAVE Britain's Heritage obtained an injunction which said the Council had failed to take into account its own development brief for the site when it granted itself permission to demolish.
SAVE said it hopes the Council will now revisit its development brief which recommended reuse for the 1890s Clarence Street School and use it to provide conservation-led regeneration.
"We now hope that Bolton Council will follow the advice of its own regeneration team and actively seek ways in which this building can be brought back into use," said SAVE secretary William Palin.
The Council said it was looking forward to discussing the building's future but regretted that talks has broken down once legal proceedings started.
