'Blot on the landscape' can go

THOUGH there was is a campaign to save the old Trent Lane Depot building on the Trent in Nottingham and give it listed status, it has been refused.

The Depot was built as a transhipment warehouse for goods between the sea ports and Nottingham, but the ugly building has long been considered a 'blot on the landscape' by locals, Alan Tilbury reveals.

Not listed

It was historian Chris Matthews who started the campaign to save the building, but English Heritage do not believe it is historically or architecturally significant enough to be given national listed status.

The site on which Trent Lane Depot stands has already been cleared to make way for houses.

The Depot was part of Trent Basin, where boats moored to be loaded or unloaded.