By: Eddie - 14th July 2005 at 15:30
A possible way to save listed buildings might be to write to and call your the council – from a quick read of the page below, it seems like this situation is specifically catered for in the law:
“Section 54 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 enables Local Planning Authorities to execute any works which appear to them to be be urgently necessary for the preservation of a listed building in their area.
If the works are not done by the owner, the Council can then arrange for the works to be done by its own contractors, and possibly seek to reclaim the cost of the work from the owner through the Courts.
Urgent works can include the following:
…
Security measures where repeated illegal intrusions are found to be causing damage to the building
…”
http://www.basingstoke.gov.uk/planning/historic/maintainrepair.htm
By: Bruce - 14th July 2005 at 15:18
The usual method for developers seems to be to buy the site – open all the doors of the listed building so the local ‘yoof’ can use them for a while, then declare them dangerous and knock them down anyway.
Hatfield is fast going this way…
Bruce
By: GASML - 14th July 2005 at 14:55
English Heritage have the national remit for scheduling and listing properties to protect them from demolition and inappropriate development. I believe that this is the case with some hangars and airfield buildings at Bicester and Duxford, and no doubt many others.
There doesn’t seem to be much on their website that’s appropriate though /www.english-heritage.org.uk
I guess the people who have renovated the art-deco terminals at Croydon, Shoreham and the Gatwick Beehive will have some knowledge. As far as restored military airfields through, the IWM at Duxford probably is a good source of expertise.
By: Phillip Rhodes - 14th July 2005 at 14:34
Philip,
when working on the Save Point Cook campaign I was put in touch by Duxford IWM staff with a David? Peter? Don? Francis who had researched/written books on RAF Airfield building heritage?? he may well know of any UK groups with hands on experience, our own National Trust here in Australia has become very active in Airfield heritage in the last 5 years but actually been registering and protecting sites such as Point Cook since @1980, but not hands on in terms of preservation/restoration and maintenance management of asbestos etc, but those issues are being assessed directly by Dept of Defence and other direct owners, and I am aware the UK Dept of Defence have listed buildings for preservation within active RAF stations so I assume the RAF/AM? must have its own internal expertise to develop conservation and management plans for those buildings.
The biggest problem appears in wooden frame structures aging or failing due to water damage/rot, or added problems of weight as asbestos cladding becomes porous and absorbs tons of water into the cladding when it rains (cause of a WW2 Hangar failure at Werribee associated with the Australian B24 project).
Obviously asbestos is a problem in its own right in terms of flaking sheets causing passer by and tenant health and safety problems and incurring very high costs to remove/replace resulting in Dept Defence attitudes of demolishing being the best way to “bury” such maintenance problems.
(I once found the UK AM list of RAF buildings to be preserved on line but I didnt save the link in favourites)
regards
Mark Pilkington
regards
Mark Pilkington
Hello Mark
The chap you mentioned is Paul Francis and the list of UK AM list of buildings to be preserved probably came from my website (www.driffieldaerodrome.co.uk).
Amasing to think that your more progressive in aerodrome preservation than we are in the UK. We normally pull everything down and name any nearby road after famous a aircraft – Spitfire Way, etc.
Phil
By: mark_pilkington - 13th July 2005 at 14:46
Philip,
when working on the Save Point Cook campaign I was put in touch by Duxford IWM staff with a David? Peter? Don? Francis who had researched/written books on RAF Airfield building heritage?? he may well know of any UK groups with hands on experience, our own National Trust here in Australia has become very active in Airfield heritage in the last 5 years but actually been registering and protecting sites such as Point Cook since @1980, but not hands on in terms of preservation/restoration and maintenance management of asbestos etc, but those issues are being assessed directly by Dept of Defence and other direct owners, and I am aware the UK Dept of Defence have listed buildings for preservation within active RAF stations so I assume the RAF/AM? must have its own internal expertise to develop conservation and management plans for those buildings.
The biggest problem appears in wooden frame structures aging or failing due to water damage/rot, or added problems of weight as asbestos cladding becomes porous and absorbs tons of water into the cladding when it rains (cause of a WW2 Hangar failure at Werribee associated with the Australian B24 project).
Obviously asbestos is a problem in its own right in terms of flaking sheets causing passer by and tenant health and safety problems and incurring very high costs to remove/replace resulting in Dept Defence attitudes of demolishing being the best way to “bury” such maintenance problems.
(I once found the UK AM list of RAF buildings to be preserved on line but I didnt save the link in favourites)
regards
Mark Pilkington
regards
Mark Pilkington
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