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Working with Building Preservation Trusts Build Renew Restores Restore Institute of Historic Building Conservation No 114 May 2010 Working with building preservation trusts Build Renew Restores Restore From cathedrals and abbeys to small churches and chapels. From stately homes and royal palaces to small houses and cottages. For historic buildings across Britain, Linford-Bridgeman is the contractor of choice for repair, restoration and conservation. For more information about Linford-Bridgeman, find us at: www.linfordrestores.com, or call 01543 414 234 Compton Verney, Warwickshire. RIBA Award 2004. 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For more information about Linford Specialist Works, please visit www.linfordSW.com, or call us on 01543 414 234 today. ii CONTEXT 1 1 4 : MAY 2 0 1 0 Context IHBC comment on PPS5 2 New life for Portaferry Briefing 5 Nick Brown 34 Out of Context 6 Partnership at Oxford Castle Debbie Dance 37 Letters 6 The Vivat Trust’s special buildings www.ihbc.org.uk The writer’s voice 7 Laura Norris 40 Registered as a Charity Number 1061593. Remembering Joe Martin 7 Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England A new approach to involving Number 3333780. ICOMOS-CIVVIH conference, Registered Office: 3 Stafford Road, Tunbridge Wells, volunteers Liz Bates 42 Kent TN2 4QZ. Valletta 8 Lessons from Great Yarmouth Officers Periodically 9 President Eddie Booth Stephen Earl 44 email [email protected] Working with building preservation Chairman Dave Chetwyn trusts James Moir 11 Public perceptions of conservation email [email protected] areas Jenny Whetton 46 Vice Chair Sheila Stones BPTs and revolving fund activity email [email protected] Secretary Richard Morrice Andrew Beckett 13 Gardens and designed landscapes 50 email [email protected] Treasurer Michael Knights BPT activity in the East Midlands Architecturally speaking 53 email [email protected] David Trevis-Smith 17 Membership Secretary Jo Evans IHBC consultations 54 email [email protected] Building preservation trusts Education Secretary John Preston Notes from the chair 55 email [email protected] in Scotland Sarah Jenkins 20 Publicity Secretary Doug Black email [email protected] The Little Houses Improvement Director’s cut 56 Law & Practice Coordinator vacant Scheme Stephen Copp 23 email [email protected] Membership notes 57 Director Seán O’Reilly email [email protected] The best of both worlds Vox pop 58 Projects Officer Fiona Newton Marcus Patton 27 email [email protected] Book reviews 59 Consultant Consultations Coordinator James Caird Heritage assets for community use email [email protected] Products and services 61 Membership Services Officer Joanna Theobald Nick Falk 29 email [email protected] Administration Officer Lydia Porter A Scottish partnership Alan Lodge 31 Advertisers index 64 email [email protected] Committee Chairs Policy Mike Brown email [email protected] Editorial Membership & Ethics Jo Evans email [email protected] Finance & Resources Richard Morrice email [email protected] Education John Preston The preservationist instinct email [email protected] Communications & Outreach Charles Strang What is it about historic building and those for justice may inspire email [email protected] conservationists? the planner’s traditional concern for Branch Officers Something inspires us to choose supposedly rational land use. North Geoff Underwood Tel 0191 433 3435 this line of work. It is not the money. Perhaps historic building North West Kate Borland Tel 0161 2344556 Yorkshire Keith Knight Tel 01904 658482 Perhaps it is something deep in our conservation provides an outlet West Midlands Charles Shapcott Tel 0121 7044312 genes. Scientists tell us that human for people with a highly developed East Midlands Roy Lewis Tel 01636 653060 instincts relate to challenges that our instinct for habitat selection. In his South Julia Foster Tel 01296 585888 South West Ian Lund Tel 01225 477687 ancestors faced in the environments in introduction to our theme on building East Anglia Phil Godwin Tel 01263 516131 which they evolved. preservation trusts (BPTs) in this issue South East David Kincaid Tel 01227 862185 The psychologist Steven Pinker has of Context (p11), James Moir reflects London David McDonald Tel 020 8881 6724 Scotland Stuart Eydmann Tel 01506 775279 suggested that there are sets of instincts on what motivates the people whose Wales Nathan Blanchard Tel 01492 583443 for intuitive mechanics (knowledge of extraordinary passion drives the BPT Northern Ireland Sharon Brown Tel 028 9754 3087 the motions, forces and deformations movement. Saving neglecting buildings, Republic of Ireland Cormac O’Sullivan that objects undergo); intuitive biology he suggests, may evoke childhood Tel 00353 5677 62907 (understanding how plants and animals memories; inspire thought about value Business Office work); number; mental maps for large and meaning; and, above all, satisfy our Jubilee House, High Street, Tisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6HA England territories; habitat selection; and justice sense of place. Tel 01747 873133 Fax 01747 871718 (sense of right and obligations). Our ancestors’ survival depended email [email protected] We can imagine how these instincts on understanding what sort of places helped our hunter-gatherer ancestors would be best suited to the tribe’s Institute of Historic Building Conservation No 114 May 2010 survive, and how they may inspire the survival, and how to adapt those places. Cover: A new entrance various types of built environment The knowledge was a matter of life and through the prison wall giving access to the 19th professionals of today. Those with death. Conditions have changed, but century Debtors Tower highly developed instincts for the passion for placemaking is still vital and prison D Wing, part mechanics or numbers are more likely today. Our articles in this issue point of a major project by the to become engineers; the instincts for to some very practical ways in which Oxford Preservation Trust and its partners, see p37 understanding biology find an outlet in building preservation trusts not only Working with building (Photo: Oxford Castle landscape architecture; those for mental preserve buildings but help to create preservation trusts Unlocked) maps are expressed in architecture; living places. CONTEXT 1 1 4 : MAY 2 0 1 0 1 Context IHBC comment on PPS5 Editor Rob Cowan Editorial Coordinator Fiona Newton 21 George Street, Louth, Lincolnshire LN11 9JU Tel 01507 602567 email [email protected] Fiona Newton, IHBC projects officer, and sparse. Coupled with this, the PPS writes: So there it is at last! The new introduces a raft of new language for Editorial Board Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning for us to take on board. How long will it Fiona Newton (chair) Nigel Crowe (main features) the Historic Environment (PPS5), issued in take us all to feel the same attachment Peter de Figueiredo (book reviews) March, replaced two of the oldest pieces to ‘heritage assets’ and ‘significance’ Michael Taylor (main features) of planning policy guidance – PPG15 as we do to the language passed down (1994) and PPG16 (1990). The response through circular 8/87 to PPG15? Cartoons by Rob Cowan to the document has been, in the main, The separation of policy from Context is distributed to all members of the a sense of relief, given the widespread guidance, in line with the current Institute of Historic Building Conservation. unpopularity of original draft document. approach of governments across the UK, © Institute of Historic Building Conservation Indeed full credit should be given to has made the document significantly 2010 all those involved in the redraft, as the shorter than both PPGs 15 and 16. ISSN 0958-2746 revised version marks a considerable With only 12 policy areas, the stripped- transformation from the original. down approach will take some getting Publisher Of course it has strengths and used to. The much-lamented loss Published for the Institute of Historic weaknesses, and each of us will have a of Annex C, which offered precise Building Conservation by different view on the balance of these, but technical guidance on many aspects of Cathedral Communications Limited, High Street, Tisbury, Wiltshire, it is clear that it presents a new approach, conservation practice, has been a sore England SP3 6HA which will certainly take time to get used to many. Others are more sympathetic Tel 01747 871717 to. For this reason English Heritage, to the new approach, treating cases Fax 01747 871718 through its HELM programme, has been on their individual merits. The new email [email protected] www.buildingconservation.com
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