{"id":34366,"date":"2022-09-21T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34366"},"modified":"2022-09-20T17:38:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T16:38:54","slug":"more-department-stores-in-england-may-be-given-protected-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34366","title":{"rendered":"More department stores in England may be given protected status"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34367\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/John-_Lewis_Sheffield_Steve_F_Commons_Wikimedia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a>Historic England announces review of landmark buildings amid closures as campaigners call for \u2018creative reinvention\u2019, reports <em>The Guardian.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration only &#8211; Steve F, CC BY-SA 2.0 &lt;https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 we don\u2019t yet know if it will lead to any proposals to list further examples\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Brutalist department stores may soon be granted protected status as the public body that looks after England\u2019s historic environment reviews the buildings seen by many as icons of the high street.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement from Historic England comes amid widespread closures, compounded by the pandemic, economic turmoil and the rise of online shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Many former stores are left vacant, at risk of demolition and facing calls for revamps in line with climate targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are researching the history of department stores to provide a national overview of the key architectural and historic phases of their development,\u201d a Historic England spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is in response to the changes in retailing which have seen stores close and an increase in requests for them to be considered for listing. The work is at an early stage so we don\u2019t yet know if it will lead to any proposals to list further examples.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Organisations such as Twentieth Century Society (C20) and SAVE Britain\u2019s Heritage have campaigned to save buildings that have dominated the urban environment for decades, calling for the spaces to be creatively reinvented\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/aug\/23\/department-stores-in-england-may-be-given-protected-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic England announces review of landmark buildings amid closures as campaigners call for \u2018creative reinvention\u2019, reports The Guardian. image: for illustration only &#8211; Steve F, CC BY-SA 2.0 &lt;https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34368,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34366\/revisions\/34368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}