One of the bIggest problems at the moment is the paucity of Conservation Officers in LAs, fortunately for most of what I work on we go direct to EH.
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Listed building what if you bulldoze it?
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You should be allowed to trash it:
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Heritage/conservation sector is hilarious. The amount of time and effort put into preserving what a handful of people i the 18th/19th centuries decided were important is incredible. The power some heritage organisations have is staggering.
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AndyP - that's the rumour, seems to be some planning disagreements. If they leave it long enough next to the large hole it will suffer severe subsidence and either collapse or have to be dropped.
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one remaining wall of a listed building was enough for a friends dad to gain permission for his house, on the basis of previous occupancy - it was about a 20 foot pile of rubble that you could just spot the bottom half of a fireplace in, new house is entirely his design after applying to add extensions to the original footprint
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We've just completed a refurb of a Grade 1 listed building (bank) that I designed and PM'd, including re-slating the roof and replacing a large section of floor structure stripped out in the 70's, and apart from requesting a huge amount of detailed drawings (I suspect the Conservation Officer just likes to sit back on a friday afternoon reviewing my 1:2 sections through window heads and mullions....) the conservation officer (and EH) were quite pragmatic, and were even happy for a new steel / Metsec floor to go in to replace the missing one!
They also turned a blind eye to the suspended ceilings, surface mounted lighting conduit, air conditioning etc that had been installed over the years without consent.....
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