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IHBC’s latest Council received impressively positive feedback, but was very busy, so this NewsBlog post spotlights a paper easily missed in this part of our exploration of conservation services – in advance of a light-touch survey – all part of our response to our Parliamentary ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation…’.
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly said: ‘At Council we had a very tight timetable. While that feature was welcomed by many, it did mean we had to move rapidly. So we’re doing a suite of NewsBlog spotlights on some key resources from the day, where we can.’
‘As you know, IHBC’s Council is a members only, live event, which helps the ‘Chatham House’-styled discussions, so we can’t make all public. But of course, where we can do that, by agreement, we will.’
For this NewsBlog we’re spotlighting the concise commentary and paper from Adam Dyer, Conservation Team Manager, London Borough of Camden, on the ‘London Councils on London Retrofit Heritage Homes Guide: ‘Green upgrades for London’s heritage homes’.
Including links to a press notice, Adam’s paper offers some personal context to a project that, as Adam writes, ‘links to the London Councils Heritage Retrofit Work [that] pulled together Sustainability, Planning and Conservation Officers along with Etude, Levitt Bernstein and Prewett Bizley.’
Adam also notes that ‘The project was not perfect, and I had bigger ambitious for it, but time and a restricted budget prevented more external engagement.’
Also in the paper, as a key output of the work, is a link to ‘How to assess retrofit measures’, described by Adam as ‘a document that went through a lot of scrutiny but has been found to be useful for Planners who are assessing applications in conservation areas where there aren’t enough Conservation Officers to provide advice to all small scale minor applications.’
See Adam Dyer’s paper on ‘London Councils on London Retrofit Heritage Homes Guide: ‘Green upgrades for London’s heritage homes’
See more on the IHBC council at: Top marks for IHBC’s latest Council as LA Conservation service talks, papers & film get 10/10 from nearly 20% of 120+ delegates, shaping the survey for our new parliamentary push
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