Following a 34% funding cut in the 2010 spending settlement, English Heritage Commissioners made the decision that the Blue Plaque Scheme was to be funded in an alternative way in the future with, as a step towards creating a new and more self-sustaining scheme, the Blue Plaques Team will be reduced to two people during 2013.
EH writes of the team:
‘They will continue to erect plaques already agreed by the independent advisory panel and work up the details of a new approach to running the scheme that will be announced in 2014. English Heritage remains committed to the Blue Plaques scheme that has done so much to inspire Londoners and visitors with the history of the capital and its inhabitants.’
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