TV pioneer's home to be demolished

EFFORTS to retain a piece of the town's history faded in the light of English Heritage's decision not to give listed status to the last home of television inventor John Logie Baird.

Now Rother planners have given the go-ahead for Baird Court to come down and be replaced by affordable housing.

A decision on the fate of the building had been delayed to enable those people who had raised specific concerns over the development to respond after English Heritage declined to give the building listed protection.