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Conservation Bulletin 74 Streamlining Heritage Management Issue 74 | Summer 2015 Contents 3 Historic Environment: Context, Current Status 38 Port Sunlight, Wirral: working towards a Local Listed & Instruments Building Consent Order 3 Editorial: heritage challenges in the modern world 4 Heritage regeneration schemes: what future in an era of 40 Strategic Involvement Government cuts? 40 Protected landscapes get the VIP treatment 6 More from less in heritage management 41 Surplus public-sector land – strategic engagement with 8 Response from the Chief Executive to John Penrose MP government departments 43 Marine Planning: a strategic partnership 9 Improved Understanding of Heritage 44 Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreements: the 9 The value of precision: defining special interest university perspective in designation 45 Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome 10 Historic England’s guides to our heritage 47 New Ways of Managing Waterways Heritage 12 How the new approach to listing helps the management 49 Conservation Area Management – Local Development of modern buildings Orders used in combination with Article 4 Directions. 14 Recognising archaeological significance for planning 16 Partnership in the management of major 51 The Future infrastructure projects 51 The way forward for the independent heritage sector: the 18 Heritage and the modernisation of the railway network view from the Historic Houses Association 20 National Expertise Delivered Locally 51 Historic England: a new beginning, or same 20 The streamlined planning system English Heritage? 23 Saving the skyline – keeping Battersea’s chimneys up 52 The Heritage Lottery Fund welcomes Historic England 25 The Star Inn the City, York: developing designations 53 A new dawn for the management of England’s 26 The Green Man – a positive partnership historic environment 28 Lincoln Castle revealed 54 English Heritage, Historic England – both face challenges, 31 The ‘new’ Bristol Old Vic, Anniversary Project both have opportunities 32 ERR Act provisions to promote Bradford regeneration 55 Looking forward to change 34 Grade II listed buildings, Heritage at Risk using volunteers 55 The National Heritage Protection Plan and Heritage 2020 35 Forward planning in a hectic world – the Historic 56 Enhanced Advisory Services: responding to Environment Record audit goes online customer demand 36 New guidance on traditional windows 58 The Farrell Review and the Place Alliance Conservation Bulletin is published twice a year by Front cover Historic England and circulated free of charge to more image: than 5,000 conservation specialists, opinion-formers Former Credit and decision-makers. Its purpose is to communicate Lyonnais building, 30 new ideas and advice to everyone concerned with the Cannon Street, understanding, management and public enjoyment of London. © Historic England’s rich and diverse historic environment. England When you have finished with this copy of Conservation Bulletin, do please pass it on. And if you would like to be added to our electronic mailing list, or to change your current subscription details, just contact us on 0370 333 0607 or at [email protected] 2 | Conservation Bulletin | Issue 74: Summer 2015 Historic Environment: Context, Current Status & Instruments Editorial: heritage challenges in the modern world. that the thousands of day-to-day heritage works, John Penrose, MP on everything from repositioning historic road signs formerly Minister for to approving repairs on sash windows in a listed Tourism and Heritage private house, are done sympathetically and well. Fortunately there’s a flock of specialist heritage architects and surveyors with the qualifications, experience and love of heritage who would gladly fill the gap for you, if you’re willing to create a professional accreditation system with enough credibility and independence to be trusted by ‘Revolutionary’ isn’t a word we like very much in your own officials in Historic England and by heritage circles, unless it’s describing something local councils and owners of heritage properties. from the Civil War I suppose, but it’s the only way There’s a crying need and, if you build it, they to describe what’s happened at English Heritage. will come. And in this case the changes introduced by English Heritage’s excellent predecessor Simon Thurley, What else? Well, there’s a contradiction at the heart to split English Heritage’s hugely important of Historic England’s approach to tall buildings. properties – everything from Stonehenge and Old New building techniques and limited city-centre Sarum to Rievaulx Abbey and Tintagel Castle – space mean that enormous, skyscraping designs and its equally vital job as the country’s official are increasingly jostling for our attention next to regulator charged with protecting our wonderful smaller heritage gems. Whether it’s the Shard in listed buildings and monuments, are a thoroughly the background of all those tourist snaps of the good thing. The properties, publicly owned but Tower of London, or the planned new towers near managed by an independent charity, have attracted Liverpool’s World Heritage dock-front, the shock of most attention because they’re going to become tall, bold, modern buildings imposing themselves on nothing less than a second National Trust, so Kate smaller, nearby old ones is only going to increase. Mavor will have her hands full as she starts the job of managing them. But Historic England has It isn’t only a British problem, of course. It’s cropping got some pretty big challenges on its plate too, so up right across Europe in historic city centres, and in I thought it might appreciate a couple of possible fast-growing Asian countries where ancient civilisations solutions to a few of the problems in its in-tray. and fast economic growth co-exist. And, so far, the international heritage response has been a bit of a mess. Firstly, you’ve got a big problem with falling numbers Some people simply oppose anything which might and – with honourable exceptions – eroding quality of change a historic skyline at all; others try to create little conservation officers in local councils from Cornwall islands of modernity by concentrating tall buildings in to Cumbria. Expecting the political tooth-fairy to wave high-rise clusters (that was the answer last time Historic a magic wand and reverse this trend is, I’m afraid, England and CABE looked at it here, incidentally); and wishful thinking no matter who wins the election on others just let everything happen cheek-by-jowl in May 7th. So you need to find alternative sources of the modern equivalent of a higgledy-piggledy organic high-quality local heritage expertise to make sure medieval street plan. Issue 74: Summer 2015 | Conservation Bulletin | 3 Historic Environment: Context, Current Status & Instruments This won’t do. We could be allowing irreparable damage you need the equivalent for the groups of structures that to international heritage jewels or, alternatively, letting make up our cityscapes and urban views as well. cultural timidity stunt wonderful new buildings which will reshape our cityscapes and form the backbone of So that’s two problems – one big, the other even bigger tomorrow’s grade-1 listed structures. It’s a problem that’s – plus their potential solutions, for your intray. There crying out for some strong, thoughtful, leadership from are lots more too, I’m sure, so here’s a comforting internationally respected experts: just the sort of people thought as you grapple with them: the level of support you employ in Historic England, in fact. So I’d suggest for our heritage, whether it’s from neighbours in local you get your best people cracking, alongside other communities or through national and international international experts from UNESCO and elsewhere, politics, has probably never been stronger. Whether it’s on trying to figure out precisely what makes an urban driven by an appreciation of what heritage can do for cityscape or view worth preserving, and what doesn’t. business sectors like tourism, or simply by a desire to Things like when and how new buildings can form a understand and preserve a local community’s historical backdrop to frame an old one, and when they obstruct roots through the clues embedded in the stones and or overpower it; what makes a skyline genuinely unique timbers of its oldest buildings, you have a deep well of rather than just comfortingly familiar; or how to work with goodwill to draw on. Congratulations on landing one of local topography to accentuate the parts of a view that the best, but most difficult, jobs in heritage and good matter, and hide the bits that don’t. It won’t be easy, of luck as you go forward. ■ course, but you’ve already done it for individual buildings; Historic England has long published the ‘Principles of This article was written and submitted before the Selection’ which you use to decide which individual election and the appointment of John Penrose as structures are important enough to deserve Listing. Now Minister for Constitutional Reform. Heritage regeneration schemes: what future in an era of Government cuts? jobs are created, new businesses are born and that Rachel Campbell spending in the wider area increases. And at a human Policy Officer, level, sensitive reuse or adaptation increases feelings of British Property Federation community involvement and enriches an area’s image and reputation. A perfect example can be found in St Peter’s Square in [email protected] central Manchester’s conservation area, where a new office and retail building has been sensitively integrated with the extensive refurbishment of the Grade II* listed While historic buildings can teach us much about Manchester Central Library, not to mention the nearby our country’s rich and complex past, breathing Grade I listed Town Hall. Developers Argent and their new life into the historic built environment allows partners worked closely with the local authority and heritage assets to make a meaningful cultural and Historic England to ensure that the new One St Peter’s economic contribution in the present day and long Square building captured the essence of this grand civic into the future.
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