IHBC past-Chair Dave Chetwyn and IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly feature perspectives in and around conservation practice and interdisciplinary placemaking in the new issue of the Urban Design Group (UDG) membership journal, as they offer IHBC takes on the institute’s joint ‘Conservation Professional Practice Principles’, a document also circulated to UDG members.
In the current issue Seán O’Reilly looks at recognised and potential commonalities in practice standards and measures across Urban Design and Conservation, as they both ‘value interdisciplinary skills in helping secure the care, management and development of places’.
Dave Chetwyn, focusses on the new joint statement ‘Conservation Professional Practice Principles’ – jointly written with the HTVF and Civic Voice – as he explains how conservation ‘is about finding practical solutions and balancing a wide range of social, economic, environmental issues within various legislative frameworks (including planning, building, highways, health and other regulatory regimes)… This needs to be done within finite capital and revenue budgets.’
For more on the UDG see udg.org.uk
For recent measures on UD local authority capacity and parallels with IHBC research in conservation services see the NewsBlogs
For the IHBC member journal Context on Conservation and Urbanism see the NewsBlogs
For more background on the circulation of the joint Practice Principles see the NewsBlogs
For the posting of the Practice Principles on our partner service and the construction sector’s knowledge base, Designing Buildings Wiki, see the NewsBlogs and DBW
For the HTVF see historictownsforum.org and for Civic Voice see civicvoice.org.uk
For background and the IHBC’s Annual School launch of the ‘Practice Principles’ see the IHBC NewsBlogs.
To see the Practice Principles follow the links to our ‘Recognised standards and guidelines’ on the IHBC’s Toolbox
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DOWNLOAD the Practice Principles
For more background see the NewsBlogs
