Healdfield Pub, Castleford

Application to knock down this pub in Castleford:

https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=map&keyVal=PRLPWHQQKL000

The Healdfield pub

A red brick pub integrated into the rows of terraces that surround. Unremarkable to a passerby, but it is always a sad loss to see an old town pub disappear, particularly in a town such as Castleford which has been turned over by the wrecking ball over the last 50 years. It is tragic to look at maps of Knottingly or Castleford from just 50 years ago, and see the proliferation of pubs, and public spaces that have been lost. This process continues…

 

 

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About Peter Robert Nixon

Of Yorkshire. Planning and Architecture professional

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