{"id":1371,"date":"2010-06-09T16:26:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2010-06-09T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:26:17","slug":"save-building-programmes-threaten-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"SAVE: Building programmes threaten heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Save targets BSF and Pathfinder.<\/div>\n

The government\u2019s building programme has caused the destruction of the country\u2019s heritage \u2018at an alarming rate\u2019, according to a new report. Pathfinder, Building Schools for the Future and the academies programme are singled out for blame by Save Britain\u2019s Heritage in its new Buildings at Risk register published this week.<\/p>\n

Individual gems have been lost as well as swathes of decent housing stock that could have been refurbished, the report argued. \u00a0It comes as a BSF scheme by Jestico & Whiles in Hackney led to the demolition of a 1964 educational centre while it was being considered for listing by English Heritage. Campaigners condemned the council\u2019s destruction of the building on Morning Lane which was designed by Stillman Eastwick-Field.<\/p>\n

Jon Wright from the Twentieth Century Society said the case was a \u201ctotal scandal\u201d and called for interim protection of buildings being assessed. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to work out if it\u2019s a bureaucratic disaster or something more sinister,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not illegal but it\u2019s cynical, underhand and against good governance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Palin, director of Save, said it was \u2018very odd\u2019 that the destruction should be initiated by one government agency \u2013 Partnerships for Schools \u2013 while another was considering listing it. He questioned how many similar cases go unreported. The Save report highlighted a Victorian school in another part of east London \u2013 Jamiatul Ummah in Tower Hamlets \u2013 whose demolition has been approved despite a pending listing decision. It also records the loss of the Edwardian St Aidan\u2019s County High School in Carlisle and the 18th-century Mill House in Staffordshire, both replaced by academies, and Leigh Girls\u2019 Grammar near Wigan, a victim of BSF.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year BD revealed that 70% of completed BSF schools were new builds, despite Partnerships for Schools\u2019 target of 50%. Palin said: \u2018When BSF was launched there were reassurances that it wouldn\u2019t result in mass demolition but the reality has turned out to be very different. Pathfinder is the monster. Over \u00a32 billion of government subsidy is injected into a programme which has resulted in the demolition of 15,000 terraced houses\u2026 At a time of housing shortage the government has demolished four times as many houses as they have rebuilt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government is expected to make an announcement on the future of BSF in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

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