SAVE Conservation Book Fair 28 June 2012
The SAVE Book Fair provides a forum for conservation, heritage and architectural groups to sell publications, network and publicise their work. The event is free and open to the public from 12pm to 7pm.
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News story on Historic Scotland's welcome decision to refuse bonkers plan to flatten Perth City Halls for a new piazza http://t.co/dYb0ksdG - 6 days ago
New SAVE Report: 'There are Places I Remember: Pathfinder and the Destruction of Liverpool' Pre-order your copy now http://t.co/UHWBCFw5 - 7 days ago
@nicholascrane Good news on Perth City Halls. Historic Scotland hv refused permission 4 demolitn http://t.co/fCVap88Z We enjoyed yr TV piece
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New SAVE Report: Pathfinder and the Destruction of Liverpool
The £2.2bn Pathfinder programme continues to wreak havoc in northern towns and cities, long after its funding has been stopped. Focussing on Liverpool, this report documents the latest episode in a heartbreaking tale of misery, waste and destruction.
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SAVE teams up with Allies & Morrison on new Battersea Scheme
SAVE has teamed up with Allies and Morrison Architects to devise a step by step proposal to re-use and save Battersea Power Station. Unlike some recent proposals this route to development retains the whole magnificent building.
read more...SAVE Conservation Book Fair 28 June 2012
The SAVE Book Fair provides a forum for conservation, heritage and architectural groups to sell publications, network and publicise their work. The event is free and open to the public from 12pm to 7pm.
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SAVE announces appointment of new Director
Clementine Cecil has been appointed as the new Director of SAVE and its associated charities. She replaces William Palin who is set to leave at the end of May, after four years at the helm.
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SAVE Presents a New Vision for Grimsby Docks
SAVE Britain's Heritage is calling for the preservation and refurbishment of Grimsby's remarkable Grade II* listed Ice Factory as part of a new waterside quarter in the historic fish docks, and has presented a vision of the area regenerated.
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Dare to Care: SAVE's Latest 'Lonely Hearts' List of Buildings at Risk
SAVE's new Buildings at Report 'Dare to Care' shines the light on historic properties in urgent need of new owners or fresh uses, revealing an array of exciting opportunities for restorers. This is the ultimate 'lonely hearts' list for buildings at risk.
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House of Scottish Great Threatened with Demolition on 100th Anniversary of his Death
The former home of Sir William Arrol (1839-1913), one of the greatest civil engineering contractors in history and a major figure in Scottish culture, may soon face demolition, pending a decision by South Ayrshire Council this month.
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Channel 4 Exposes Britain's Empty Homes Scandal
Channel 4's new series with George Clarke,'The Great British Property Scandal' features plenty of footage of two of SAVE's major battlegrounds, the Welsh Streets of Liverpool and Saltwell in Gateshead.
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New SAVE Report: London's Churches are Fighting Back
In 1985 SAVE published the report London's Churches are Falling Down, revealing the desperate plight of some of the capital's most beautiful places of worship. A quarter of a century on, SAVE revisits the subject with London's Churches are Fighting Back.
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SAVE Blog - 21 Madryn Street: the house that refused to die
In May 2011 SAVE bought 21 Madryn Street in Liverpool in an effort to thwart council plans to flatten the house and hundreds around it. This new blog follows the story of the renovation of the property, which is a few doors down from the birthplace of Rin
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Join the campaign to save the Jewish Maternity Hospital in east London
The former Jewish Maternity Hospital in Underwood Road, Bethnal Green, one of east London's key buildings from the philanthropic era of the early 20th-century, is under immediate threat of demolition.
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SAVE Joins Chorus of Condemnation over Liverpool Demolitions
SAVE is dismayed by the developing situation in Cairns Street, Liverpool - where contractors have damaged, and are now seeking to demolish, a building earmarked for refurbishment.
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Saving Thanet: The Architecture of Kent's Forgotten Coast
The rich architectural heritage of the north eastern tip of Kent is the focus of this new SAVE report. The report takes a fresh look at the Isle of Thanet, with its towns of Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs, assessing the state of the area's historic
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The hunt is on for buildings at risk
Know of a building at risk? Please get in touch with SAVE's Buildings at Risk Officer with any suggestions. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you! Please spread the word.
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SAVE on the BBC
SAVE has enjoyed publicity on the BBC - both nationally and regionally - in response to the publication of our 22nd buildings at risk catalogue, Take a Chance on Me. The book features over 100 empty historic buildings threatened by neglect and decay.
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Newsletter - May 2011
Catch up with the latest news on SAVE campaigns, including the landmark judgment on demolition and the battle to SAVE Liverpool's Welsh Streets from the bulldozers.
Pathfinder's Shameful Legacy Exposed in Devastating New SAVE Report
SAVE Britain's Heritage has published a devastating verdict on the discontinued Housing Market Renewal (HMR) Pathfinder programme. In a new report 'Housing Scandal! Pathfinder: a Post-Mortem', SAVE attacks both the legacy of the programme and the machiner
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Secretary of State Issues Notice Stalling Liverpool's Demolition Plans
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has issued Liverpool Council with an Article 25 Direction forbidding them to give consent for demolishing the Welsh Streets until he has considered a request by SAVE to require a full environmental assessment ...
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Top Structural Engineer Says Cheaper to Renovate Welsh Streets Houses
One of the UK's top conservation engineers has said the the Victorian terraced houses in the Welsh Streets area of Liverpool are easily capable of economic repair.
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Turnmills Under Threat Again
Developer Derwent Valley Property has submitted another application for the demolition of the landmark Turnmills building in Clerkenwell, London - a former stables and warehouse dating from the 1870s.
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SAVE Secures Landmark Ruling on Demolition
SAVE Britain's Heritage has secured a landmark judgment against the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which will introduce new controls over demolitions of buildings and structures under UK planning law.
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Building Preservation Trust in Dramatic Rescue of Key Endangered Site
The Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust has completed the heroic rescue of one of the most important and endangered historic sites in the South East of England.
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New SAVE E-Report - Don't let them bulldoze Barry's Brighton Hospital
Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital, an early and important work by the giant of British architecture, Sir Charles Barry, is threatened with destruction by the area's NHS Trust. SAVE Britain's Heritage has compiled this emergency report as part of ...
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SAVE Urges Pickles to 'PROD' Liverpool on Empty Homes
The Coalition's Localism agenda is facing its first legal test, as SAVE calls on Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to help residents kill off predecessor John Prescott's controversial attempt to bulldoze their Victorian homes.
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A TV company, making a new BBC Two series 'Restoration Home', is looking for owners who are about to undertake the restoration of their period home.
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Uncertain future for London's earliest surviving workhouse
Application for demolition threatens historic former workhouse in Cleveland Street.
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Fury as Minister turns down Waterloo Station for listing
Heritage Minister John Penrose has gone against English Heritage advice and decided not to list Waterloo Station.
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Buildings at risk for sale - take your pick!
SAVE has heard of many fine buildings at risk for sale recently and felt compelled to write an article rather than waiting to feature them each as a building of the month.
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SAVE in dramatic bid to list Beatles Houses
As bulldozers close in on Ringo Starr's childhood home, SAVE and the Merseyside Civic Society appeal for the immediate group listing of Beatles Houses
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Newsletter - September 2010
SAVE's 2010 Newsletter
Trust continues fight for Conan Doyle's Surrey home
The Undershaw Preservation Trust has been campaigning against plans for Conan Doyle's Surrey home. Despite the council's approval, they haven't given up.
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Application threatening historic dockyard refused at planning
An application to build three blocks of flats within a unique Georgian residential quarter in Sheerness Dockyard has been thrown out by Swale Borough Council.
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Rediscovered Utopias: Saving London's Suburbs
This new SAVE report, produced with the support of English Heritage and edited by Ann Robey and Bridget Cherry, looks at 14 of London's planned suburbs, assessing their importance and proposing ways to protect them from damaging change.
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Colchester, Back to the Future
Colchester is one of England's most overlooked historic county towns. SAVE aims to highlight the wealth of Colchester's built heritage.
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Reviving Britain's Terraces: Life after Pathfinder
SAVE's new, groundbreaking report on Labour's disastrous Housing Market Renewal (Pathfinder) Initiative looks at ways good terraced housing earmarked for demolition can be adapted and upgraded to create exemplar 'eco-communities' of the future.
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The writing's on the billboard in battle to save Georgian house in Blackburn
SAVE has joined a campaign, spearheaded by the Georgian Group, to preserve a listed 1780s house in Blackburn which stands in the way of a proposed link road.
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SAVE Hails Revised Spurs Stadium Scheme
SAVE has welcomed dramatic revisions to Tottenham Hotspur's stadium redevelopment, announced on 19 May. The revised scheme is the outcome of cooperation between the football club, SAVE, English Heritage and CABE and has resulted not only in the preservati
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Listed Brewery Safe Despite Court Ruling
SAVE fails in first attempt to secure landmark judgement on demolition but will fight on
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Destruction in Bootle
More Pathfinder madness as landmark Liverpool church is flattened.
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SAVE calls for urgent action to protect Birmingham's 'Forgotten Arcadia'
SAVE has called for immediate action to prevent further erosion of history and charcter in one of Birmingham’s most attractive Victorian suburbs.
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Dismay as Leigh School comes down
Dismay as roof is taken off Leigh School
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Bulldozers Move in on Strood's Edwardian Gem
Demolition gathers pace.
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Samara: Endangered City on the Volga
This latest report from the Moscow Architecture Preservation Society (MAPS) and SAVE Europe's Heritage outlines the threats facing the rich architecture of Samara, a great city on the Volga, where the people of Moscow were evacuated during the World War I
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Google Earth Map of Silesia
An interactive map of Silesia showing the location of buildings featured in SAVE's latest publication is now available for users of Google Earth
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Kettering gem under threat
SAVE concerned by application for demolition of fine Edwardian office building.
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New SAVE greetings cards now available
Buy our Tottenham High Street cards and Help kick Spurs' demolition plans into touch
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Appeal for help as SAVE begins its search for the 2010-11 Buildings at Risk Catalogue
We need your beady eyes and local knowledge to help discover new entries for our 2010-11 buildings at risk catalogue.
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Sheerness Dockyard put on WHF's list of Watch sites for 2010
Sheerness Dockyard, nominated by SAVE Britain's Heritage, has been included on the WMF's list of Watch sites for 2010.
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Silesia: the Land of Dying Country Houses
Now available to order
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Moscow Heritage at Crisis Point. Second Edition
Now available to order
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Trust buys Moat Brae House
Historic house under threat now faces a bright future following purchase by Trust.
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Happy Birthday All Souls!
All Souls Church, Haley Hill, Halifax, has celebrated its 150th birthday! It's future was once bleak, however a campaign spearheaded by SAVE secured this magnificent church's future.
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Gravesend Temple Escapes Bulldozers after Successful Legal Challenge
A Sikh temple and former church in Gravesend, Kent, has escaped demolition following a successful legal challenge by SAVE.
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Much-loved Edwardian drill hall faces destruction
Horncastle Town Hall, a much loved and well used community centre, is threatened by demolition for replacement with a residential development scheme.
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New congregation in bid to revive Chelsea chapel
A thriving Orthodox congregation in south London has expressed strong interest in taking over the long empty Guards Chapel at Chelsea Barracks.
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DEMOLISHED - Help SAVE the beautiful interiors of the Palace Theatre in Nelson
Negotiations between the Theatres Trust and the Council lead to temporary stay on beautiful Nelson Theatre allowing consideration of future uses.
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SAVE's New Buildings at Risk Catalogue: Sample Entries
Take a peep at some of the entries from our new buildings at risk catalogue, All We Need is Love.
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Woodstock Station Spared Demolition for the Second Time
The Former Woodstock Station, which once served Blenheim Palace, has been spared needless demolition for the second time!
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Save money when you buy our latest 2 reports
Buy our 2 latest reports for £25 plus p&p. Download the attached flyer for further details.
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Demolition approved for Clarence Street School
Bitter disappointment as Bolton Council vote for demolition of Former Clarence Street School following a hard fought battle.
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More threats to historic buildings as a result of school expansion plans
Proposed expansion of a school in Reading, and the construction of leisure facilities, seek the demolition of 2 fine Victorian villas on Bath Road, Reading.
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Shock as Manchester villa demolished
SAVE decries sudden demolition of 1850s Manchester villa.
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New Publication For Sale Now!
'TRIUMPH, DISASTER AND DECAY - The SAVE Survey of LIVERPOOL'S HERITAGE' is available for purchase now.
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Historic Welsh Pub Threatened with Demolition
Campaign growing to save historic Welsh Pub, the Vulcan Hotel, complete with its Edwardian tiled facade and further internal decorative tilework.
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Toxteth Street CPO Confirmed
SAVE has learned that the Compulsory Purchase Order for 520 houses in Toxteth Street, East Manchester, has been confirmed by the Secretary of State. The news comes as a bitter disappointment both to SAVE and residents who have been fighting demolition
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STOP PRESS! Demolition Approved for Annesley Colliery Headstocks & Bath House
Hopes have been dashed and disappointment descends as application for demolition of Annesley Colliery Headstocks and Bath House is approved after a long and hard fought battle.
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Smithfield is saved!
The Smithfield General Market Buildings have been saved! SAVE Britain's Heritage are delighted to hear that the Secretary of State has thrown out developer's plans to demolish these fine historic buildings situated within the Smithfield conservation area,
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Barford Granary, Wiltshire
Delightful granary building saved from demolition and beautifully repaired.
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Brighton Churches: The Need for Action Now
New Brighton Churches publication. Order your copy now...
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Pickles Deals Huge Blow to Welsh Streets Demolition Plans
Huge blow for council's plans to flatten historic neighbourhood as Secretary of State rules that Welsh Streets demolition should be subject to Environmental Impact Assessment
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SAVE teams up with Allies & Morrison on new Battersea Scheme
SAVE has teamed up with Allies and Morrison Architects to devise a step by step proposal to re-use and save Battersea Power Station. Unlike some recent proposals this route to development retains the whole magnificent building.
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House of Scottish Great Threatened with Demolition on 100th Anniversary of his Death
The former home of Sir William Arrol (1839-1913), one of the greatest civil engineering contractors in history and a major figure in Scottish culture, may soon face demolition, pending a decision by South Ayrshire Council this month.
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