Monthly Archives: November 2009

Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Arrangements for Handling Heritage Applications – Notification and Directions by the Secretary of State (England) Direction 2009 Extracted: ‘The new direction will extend the categories of listed building consent  applications which local planning authorities are … Continue reading →

Eddie Booth, IHBC President, has notified the IHBC National Office of the death of Gordon Michell last Tuesday.  Michell was a pioneering conservation architect and professional adviser to the Civic Trust during its most influential period.  He developed models for … Continue reading →

Controversial planning proposals that would have put thousands of heritage buildings at risk are to be rewritten John Healey, the planning minister, said he would “redraft” new rules on historic buildings following an outcry over the original version. The proposed … Continue reading →

The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has responded to the government’s consultation on changing permitted development rights. The consultation, Improving Permitted Development, aims to simplify the planning process for smaller scale applications for educational institutions, industry, offices, shops and warehousing. … Continue reading →

In July, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced an additional £7.3m investment to support a wide range of new training opportunities within the heritage sector: £2.3m was to be invested quickly with current grantees as an extension of HLF’s successful … Continue reading →

In May 2007 the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, English Heritage and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) acquired from Blom ASA the Aerofilms Collection. This is a UK-wide … Continue reading →

New guidance on how independent design panels should operate has been published by organisations involved with the built environment. The advice has been developed by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe), the Royal Institute of British Architects, … Continue reading →

Expansion of Environmental Stewardship schemes is the key to safeguarding the gains made by set-aside, said Natural England in response to the launch on 5 November of the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE). CFE – a partnership involving NFU, … Continue reading →

CASE: The Culture and Sport Evidence Programme: Second Newsletter CASE is the £1.8M, 3 year joint programme of research led by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in collaboration with the Arts Council England, English Heritage, the Museums, Libraries … Continue reading →

Recommendations to improve community cohesion, performance evaluation and the balance of development from city centre to suburban areas are just some of a raft of measures designed to improve the Government’s flagship housing market renewal scheme that have been mothballed … Continue reading →

Architecture and Design Scotland has launched its new school design web resource ‘Smarter Places’. This unique resource has been designed to deliver a simple objective; to provide everyone who wants to participate in school design with the means to explore … Continue reading →

Investment in robust spatial plans and delivery strategies, supported by effective development management, is vital to enable economic recovery and adapt to climate change says the National Planning Forum (NPF) in its Manifesto ‘Fit for Purpose Spatial Planning’ launched recently. … Continue reading →

The owner of a house in Hackney has been forced to pull down a two-storey extension that was built without planning permission, following action by Hackney Council. The unauthorised development overshadowed neighbouring homes and was not in keeping with the … Continue reading →

Heritage Link AGM and Heritage Day on 2 December at the German Gymnasium, St Pancras, London. In a pre-election year we are delighted that Ben Bradshaw, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ed Vaizey Shadow Minister for Culture … Continue reading →

Ian Dungavell has begun a new study on conservation plans, trying to capture the perspectives of those people who have commissioned them, those who write them, and those who use them either as property managers and curators or as regulators … Continue reading →

Do you have a view on how modern architecture fits into our towns and cities? Ahead of a conference looking at how we value post war architecture, Historic Scotland is looking for people to contribute their opinions and comments to … Continue reading →

Proposed heritage guidance warning The Government’s proposed new planning policy guidance on the historic environment will put the country’s heritage at risk, two professional bodies have argued. The warning has come from both the Royal Town Planning Institute and the … Continue reading →

The joint IHBC-RTPI response is probably at the more negative end of the spectrum of submissions to CLG’s Planning policy Statement (PPS) 15 on Planning and the Historic Environment, at least of those seen by the IHBC among the 300 … Continue reading →

Key users IHBC AND RTPI see mostly problems in England’s new draft policy for historic places. The IHBC has submitted a downbeat joint response with the RTPI to the Communities and Local Government (CLG) consultation document on the draft Planning … Continue reading →