Dare to Care: Buildings at Risk 2012-13
You can now order SAVE's 2012-13 Buildings at Report 'Dare to Care'. This is the ultimate 'lonely hearts' list for buildings at risk.
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Successes and Achievements
SAVE has used the power of public opinion, through press releases and reports, and the threat of legal action to rescue a series of major buildings from demolition and decay as well to fight for numerous local landmarks.
On three separate occasions SAVE has set up charitable trusts to restore threatened buildings, see Barlaston Hall, Staffordshire, All Souls, Halifax and 6 Palace Street, Caernarfon.
Many of SAVE's campaigns have altered the way legislation now protects our built heritage.
Our attack on insensitive shop fronts contained guidelines now adopted by many local planning authorities
SAVE was the first organisation to campaign for the introduction of the Thirty Year Rule which now makes outstanding post-war buildings in England and Wales eligible for listing
SAVE has also been instrumental in changing public and professional attitudes, such as leading the way in promoting the reuse of redundant industrial buildings.
Many buildings have been saved as a direct result of featuring on the SAVE register of threatened historic buildings. This was the first register of its kind to be made available on the Internet and remains a unique source of information for people looking to repair and reuse threatened historic buildings. Visit the buildings at risk section for more information.
Edwardian former mental hospital saved from demolition
A model Edwardian hospital of 1900 designed by London architects Giles Gough and Trollope set in rolling green fields on the lower slopes of the Brecon Beacons National Park has been saved from demolition by the unanimous vote of members of the planning committee of the National Park Authority. For over ten years the handsome stone-built hospital buildings have looked increasingly doomed as they have been vandalised and left to rot.
read more...Watch SAVE Director, Clem Cecil, on BBC North West in Liverpool, talking about recent High Court ruling on transitional funds
Watch SAVE Director, Clem Cecil, on BBC North West in Liverpool on 20 September talking about the recent High Court ruling (18 September) on Pathfinder transitional funds
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TWO VICTORIES AGAINST THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE HIGH COURT FOR SAVE BRITAIN'S HERITAGE
SAVE Britain's Heritage has won two major high court rulings in their decade-long campaign to end housing destruction in the north of England, both of which will potentially save thousands of homes from the bulldozer and bring in a new era of neighbourhood refurbishment.
read more...Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
The house and its contents were handed to the National Trust Following a lightening SAVE campaign.
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The Grange, Hampshire
Thanks to the threat of legal action by SAVE this great neo-classical house has been restored from dereliction and is now accessible to the public.
read more...Peninsula Barracks, Winchester
A scheme prepared by SAVE and local architect Huw Thomas for the conversion of the redundant barracks has been successfully implemented, creating a hundred homes in the city centre.
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Barlaston Hall, Staffordshire
A Grade I Palladian villa by Sir Robert Taylor.
read more...All Souls, Halifax
A redundant church regarded by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott as his finest church.
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6 Palace Street, Caernarfon
The oldest building in the town after the castle.
read more...Unforgiveable Assault on a World Heritage Site
Goodbye to the landscape of the famous Villas of the Veneto as factory sheds march unchecked across open countryside.
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Press Release: Alternative Business Plan for Smithfield General Market Released
SAVE and Urban Space Management's viable business scheme for Smithfield General Market and our letter making an offer on the site.
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Press Release: SAVE calls on Maria Miller to list the London Fruit and Wool Exchange
MINISTER SHOULD FOLLOW LEAD OF HER PREDECESSOR IN COVENT GARDEN AND LIST THE LONDON FRUIT AND WOOL EXCHANGE
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