Reviving the tannery

Above: The Tannery Buildings, Canterbury (Kent Life Magazine)

One of the last undeveloped pieces of land within the city walls of Canterbury is to be re-developed by a specialist Faversham-based developer.

Colin Strickland has acquired the original Tannery Buildings at Stour Street and, although there is already consent for 46 houses and flats on the site, will reduce the numbers to concentrate on a new scheme better planned for today’s market.

The 18th-century former Connolly leather tannery also includes a row of early 19th-century houses and some Victorian cottages fronting the river.