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AN investigation has begun after an important part of a historically significant mill site was destroyed.

NEW business units, refurbished heritage attractions and a new cultural centre are among the numerous projects in Keighley that could get a share of £25 million funding. In December 2019 it was announced that Keighley would be one of dozens of towns in the UK to benefit from the Government’s Towns Fund. The programme would help regenerate towns and areas that have experienced decline in recent decades, and many getting funding are industrial towns like Keighley. A Towns Board has been set up to come up with a list of schemes the £25m could be spent on, and in the coming days a fin...

STANDING a forlorn and roofless shell on the edge of Gresley Road is Low Mill. Apart from the war memorial, it is Keighley’s only Grade II* listed building. Throughout the country only six per cent of listed buildings are Grade II* listed and those that fall into this category do so because they are “particularly important buildings of more than special interest” and as such warrant every effort to preserve them. Much abused and neglected over the past 30 years, Low Mill was the very first cotton mill to be built in Yorkshire at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

AN application to build a steel fabricating workshop next to one of the District’s most “at risk” historic mills has been submitted to Bradford Council. Grade II listed Low Mill in Keighley was the first cotton mill in Yorkshire, but today is in a sorry state. Just last month the building was added to Save Britain’s Heritage’s “At Risk” register of historic and heritage buildings that face an uncertain future. And Historic England has listed the building’s condition as being “very bad.” Now a planning application to build on a plot of land next to the mill has be...