SAVE in the news - August 2023

From M&S and demolition debates, to pubs and railway bridges, August was another busy month on the SAVE news desk.

The Secretary of State’s M&S decision on 20 July 2023 was subject to further extensive coverage following news that the retailer has applied to the High Court to challenge the Government’s decision. Articles featured in local and national papers including the Evening Standard, the Architects’ Journal, and The Architects’ Newspaper, as well as industry outlets Construction News, Retail Sector and Planning Resource.

The Guardian featured the good news that national road body National Highways has begun the removal of concrete infilling it undertook on a Victorian former railway bridge in Great Musgrave, Cumbria with planning permission (which is subsequently failed to secure retrospectively).

The plight facing historic pubs gained wide coverage this month, with a feature article in Bloomberg Magazine, and extensive coverage of the fire and demolition of a Black Country pub - The Crooked House – without planning permission.

SAVE's objection to controversial plans for the demolition of a listed building for a 19 storey tower in central Manchester were the subject of a detailed article published by the Manchester Evening News and subsequent feature column The Mancunian Way. News that the Victorian school in the Herefordshire village of Garway, which we fought to save earlier this year, is on the market for sale was featured in the Hereford Times.