A proposal to build a new visitor and community centre in the historic village of Saltaire is facing a backlash from angry residents who claim the building would be a “permanent stain” on the Unesco world heritage site in West Yorkshire.
The £5.39m Community, Arts, Heritage and Future Technology Centre would serve as a starting point for the tens of thousands of visitors to the Victorian model village in Bradford, providing gardens, public toilets, teaching facilities and an exhibition space for the Saltaire Collection, a trove of 19th-century documents and artefacts.
