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last nights programme was simply not on; all those involved should be made to wear a tee-shirt....'i have set building conservation back 40 years'
WELL DONE.
WELL DONE.
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I've just mailed the S*V* office and said exactly that!
CO's throughout the land who try to get people to retain historic fabric, do like for like repairs and generally treat their buildings as they hopefully would an old master painting or a piece of Chippendale furniture must be weeping into their coffeee mugs this morning.
I wonder though - the series has highlighted the inadequacy of the current system of 'protection' of the historic environment, and the diversity of interpretation of guidance. Of course, if this work had been turned down no doubt the local authority would have lost on appeal and it would have gone ahead. I'd love to have read the justification.
Maybe some good may come in the long term? Tighter guidance, more agreement throughout the country on what is and is not accepatble?
Interesting that the two places which were given some respect in this series were the unlisted ones!
CO's throughout the land who try to get people to retain historic fabric, do like for like repairs and generally treat their buildings as they hopefully would an old master painting or a piece of Chippendale furniture must be weeping into their coffeee mugs this morning.
I wonder though - the series has highlighted the inadequacy of the current system of 'protection' of the historic environment, and the diversity of interpretation of guidance. Of course, if this work had been turned down no doubt the local authority would have lost on appeal and it would have gone ahead. I'd love to have read the justification.
Maybe some good may come in the long term? Tighter guidance, more agreement throughout the country on what is and is not accepatble?
Interesting that the two places which were given some respect in this series were the unlisted ones!
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Have you seen the book that goes with the series? It's really rather good. Charlie Luxton appears to be on the side of the angels.
Oh, it gives Lady F's real name...you just won't believe it.
Oh, it gives Lady F's real name...you just won't believe it.
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There's a freebie copy been sent to the S*Ve office I know - I'll have a gander next week!
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Evelyn - you'll then spill the beans about Lady F's real name, won't you?
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Just follow the link Biff has given to find the real name of "Doctor Demolition".
Honestly, she is to salvage what Douglas Bader was to tap-dancing...
Honestly, she is to salvage what Douglas Bader was to tap-dancing...
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I thought Biff was joking until I went into the link !
What a complacent, self-satisfied ***** she is.
What a complacent, self-satisfied ***** she is.
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The give-away was when she said something like, 'We always intended to stay within the footprint of the building.'
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I e-mailed Waverley Borough Council and got this reply; I guess his side of the story deserves an airing:
I did not see the TV programme - so don't know how balanced or dramatized it was.
However, the house in question was in a dire state of decay, after many years of neglect. When it was recently listed in September 2004. The big
central roof valley over the heart of the house had failed and caused dangerous decay in the roof structure and on both floor levels. The house
needed someone to take it on, and money was part of that equation.
We had several requests from interested prospective purchasers of the site. Most of whom wished to convert into flats and build in the grounds as "enabling development".
Perhaps the outcome is not the one that you or I would prefer in an ideal world - but without someone with cash to take the house on, I would have been worried about its survival. Previous absentee owners were difficult to track down and not within easy reach of enforcement procedure within the urgent timescale that the house offered.
It was a great pity that the building was not selected for listing along with other nearby buildings, of the same origin, in 1986. At that time the condition of the building would have been less woeful and restoration, with or without ironic quotes, less urgent and less necessary.
Russell Morris
Waverley Borough Council
I did not see the TV programme - so don't know how balanced or dramatized it was.
However, the house in question was in a dire state of decay, after many years of neglect. When it was recently listed in September 2004. The big
central roof valley over the heart of the house had failed and caused dangerous decay in the roof structure and on both floor levels. The house
needed someone to take it on, and money was part of that equation.
We had several requests from interested prospective purchasers of the site. Most of whom wished to convert into flats and build in the grounds as "enabling development".
Perhaps the outcome is not the one that you or I would prefer in an ideal world - but without someone with cash to take the house on, I would have been worried about its survival. Previous absentee owners were difficult to track down and not within easy reach of enforcement procedure within the urgent timescale that the house offered.
It was a great pity that the building was not selected for listing along with other nearby buildings, of the same origin, in 1986. At that time the condition of the building would have been less woeful and restoration, with or without ironic quotes, less urgent and less necessary.
Russell Morris
Waverley Borough Council