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Response 3617087

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3617087

Response date

9 January 2025

Request

Please would you be able to provide me with the most up to date figures on:

  1. How many Blue Plaques there are in your region in total. (If full figure is known, please provide that, if only those approved by the council are known, please specify).
    1. Who each of the Blue Plaques in the region is for and when it was installed.
  1. How many applications for blue plaques there have been in the 2024 to the council.
    1. Who they are for.
    2. How many, and which ones were approved.
  1. Please identify any other organisations in your region that approve and install Blue Plaques.

Response

Please would you be able to provide me with the most up to date figures on:

  1. How many Blue Plaques there are in your region in total. (If full figure is known, please provide that, if only those approved by the council are known, please specify).

    • Full figure is not known and we don’t maintain a list of plaques and markers – it would also depend on what the person asking the question means. The formal “blue plaque scheme” is operated by Historic England and was originally a London Only scheme, only in recent years (2023) has that official scheme been rolled out nationwide and there are none of these official national blue plaque scheme plaques in Rushcliffe.

      If they simply mean any heritage related plaque which is blue in colour and circular in shape then we do have a few – there is certainly one on 25 Main Street East Leake dedicated to John Bley who built the house (he was a London distiller and philanthropist – installed c2015), that was undertaken by East Leake Historical Society but isn’t an official ‘blue plaque’ under the national scheme, its just a plaque which is blue.

      There is at least one other on “The Barn” on Main Street in Keyworth, that one is blue but not circular and commemorates the builder George Martyn – the plaque contains basic information about the building and its listing but no information about George Martyn (Installed c 2005), it was installed by Keyworth Parish Council.

      There is one on 10 Asher Lane in Ruddington, this is circular but black and was installed by Nottingham Building Preservation Trust to commemorate their work in restoring the building (installed c2002).

      There may well be others, depending on how the person asking defines ‘blue plaque’. For example, there is a plaque in Hawkstone commemorating its designation as a conservation area, and one on the old post office in Cropwell Butler which is very old – it’s a lozenge shaped stone plaque commemorating the opening of the telegraph office in 1883, I couldn’t say who installed it or how long it has been there.

    1. Who each of the Blue Plaques in the region is for and when it was installed. As above
  1. How many applications for blue plaques there have been in the 2024 to the council. None
    1. Who they are for.
    2. How many, and which ones were approved.
  1. Please identify any other organisations in your region that approve and install Blue Plaques.

Unknown In terms of who installs them – it is not the role of the Borough Council to maintain such a list and anyone could look to install one if they wished. In terms of who approves them, if they require listed building consent, planning permission or advertisement consent then it would be RBC planning department, however signs which “inform and identify” may have deemed consent under the advertisement regulations so a factual sign within the relevant limits on size and numbers on a site which simply provides information about its history could well not require advertisement consent. As such its often the case that consent is only required where plaques are to be installed on listed buildings.

 

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