This is a story that was never going to have a happy ending. Once a building is demolished, it is gone. There is nothing that can be done to bring it back. A pastiche rebuild is never enough, and nor should it be. Despite this, the Twentieth Century Society (C20) is this week being rightly celebrated. When faced with the appalling news that Connell, Ward and Lucas' fine Grade Ⅱ-listed 1937 Greenside house had been illegally demolished by its owner, C20 stepped up. Now - more than 18 months after the act of destruction took place — the society has emerged victorious from a planning battle of historic proportions.
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