The IHBC’s London Branch 2024 Day conference, on 1 October, looks at the conflicts that can arise between the conservation of the natural and of the historic environment and how these might be resolved in this year’s wide-ranging and celebrated annual Conference, at the Grade I listed Royal College of Physicians.
‘… Too often conserving the natural and historic environment are seen as competing and conflicting objectives…’
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IHBC Chair David McDonald said: ‘Too often conserving the natural and historic environment are seen as competing and conflicting objectives. At a local level that can be illustrated by the issue of bats in churches where the protection of endangered species can be at odds with protecting church interiors and congregation. In this, the sixteenth of IHBC’s London Conferences we will be examining some of these conflicts, but also looking at ways in which they may be overcome by imaginative and creative solutions.’
IHBC London Branch Chair and IHBC Trustee Sheila Stones said: ‘We are extremely pleased to have secured a wide range of excellent speakers who will be covering various issues around the theme of balancing the built and natural environments. The topics covered will range from reconciling potential conflict between grant funded rewilding, landscape recovery, woodland and wetland creation with conserving and enhancing the significance of heritage landscapes. Our speakers include representatives from key organisations in the sector including Natural England, the National Trust, and Historic England.’
IHBC London Branch writes:
This one-day conference is to be held in Sir Denys Lasdun’s Grade I listed Royal College of Physicians (1960–64); an award-winning conference venue. As usual, there will be opportunities for delegates to visit the Exhibitors’ Stands and to network in the Platt Room adjacent to the Seligman Lecture Theatre during the coffee, lunch and tea breaks, whilst enjoying the normally much admired refreshments!
The conference will be of relevance to conservation officers and other heritage professionals, town planners, urban designers, engineers, surveyors and archaeologists. It will also be of interest to those employed in nature conservation and ecology. As always, we intend the presentations to be of nationwide interest and not solely London focussed.
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