Another Listed Building Fire

[Canary42]

Amazing how many Listed Buildings on potential Development Sites go up in flames.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-48175407

[jackthehat]

It used to be given a less than PC name...
It is quite remarkable how fire often can clear away the most stubborn of obstacles when dealing with proposed developments.

[retrocop]

Well the Brigade are confident they will be investigating Arson. Gives a clue does’nt it especially as described as a deteriorating eyesore?

[Muntin]

Applies to recycling depots and scrapyards as well. Burn for days, some of them. Fforestfach, Swansea and Ammanford come to mind.

[Buenchico]

While it was a beautiful old industrial building (just down the road from me)
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/polopoly_fs/1.4895684!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/image.jpg
nobody could ever come up with a way of restoring it which would render it useful in the future, so it seemed destined to rot away. (The outer shell was made of wood).

There have been lots of arson attacks on site's outbuildings in the past, so it seemed only a matter of time before there was one on the main building. It would seem most likely to me that the arsonists were simply local youths, as the development potential of the site is actually severely limited by the restricted access to it. (Any planning proposals which would lead to a significant increase in traffic along that narrow road would probably be quickly rejected).

All the same, I'll miss being able to admire the building from the train whenever I go into town.

[cassa333]

My local community Association has a grade 2 listed building. They are asset rich cash poor to destitute.

It wouldn’t surprise me if it suddenly went up in flames.....

[david small]

I’ve known several failed business premises have strange electrical fault fires. One chap I knew had two at different times. Personally I find that reprehensible, but, what do I know?

[goodgoalie]

The late Gavin Stamp was really good on this in the Piloti column he wrote for Private Eye, and often had stories about listed buildings 'going on fire' (as we say in Scotland), or being demolished just before they could be listed, such as the Art Deco Firestone Tyre factory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Tyre_Factory

Unfortunately, this sort of thing is still going on - plenty of material for whoever has taken over the Piloti column.