SAVE Britain’s Heritage Visit Website  Contact Details: SAVE Britain’s Heritage, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ
Tel: 020 7253 3500
About Us:
‘The destruction of fine buildings continues despite official conservation policies of recent years …In a period of economic stringency the waste involved in town centre demolition for example, is almost criminal. Homes are lost, small businesses destroyed, areas blighted, resources squandered, and the civilising influence of the past dissipated.’ (Extract from SAVE’s Manifesto, 1975)
SAVE Britain’s Heritage has been campaigning for historic buildings since its formation, over 30 years ago, by group of architects, journalists and planners. SAVE is a strong, independent voice in conservation, free to respond rapidly to emergencies and to speak out loud for the historic environment.
SAVE issues press releases, produces of lightening reports, stages exhibitions and lobbies parliament. SAVE supports local campaign groups nationwide offering help and advice. SAVE has always sought to highlight the importance of reuse of vacant or ‘at risk’ buildings, and has promoted groundbreaking schemes for the conversion of churches, factories, mills and a range of other structures.
Since its foundation SAVE has published over 170 reports and produced more than 500 press releases. For 22 years SAVE has published an annual catalogue of Buildings at Risk in England and Wales. SAVE is a charity, relying entirely on donations. HERITAGE UNDER ASSAULT
Liskard Hall, Wallasey, Merseyside, a fine listed neo-classical house under demolition in 2008. The building was last used as an art school and had lain empty for 5 years before an arson attack reduced it to a shell.
SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGNS
SAVE’s long campaign to preserve Horace Jones’s General Market at Smithfield, London, culminated in a Public Inquiry in 2007. At the Inquiry, SAVE, together with English Heritage, fought plans by the City and its developer to replace the unlisted 1880s building with an office block. Convinced by the heritage case, the Secretary of State refused the application, and directed that the existing market buildings should be retained.
STRENGTHENING HERITAGE PROTECTION
In March 2011 SAVE secured a landmark judgment in the Court of Appeal which introduced new controls over demolition in UK law.
PATHFINDER MADNESS
SAVE has been one of the strongest critics of the previous government’s Housing Market Renewal (Pathfinder) programme. At its inception in 2003, Pathfinder made provision for the demolition of 400,000 pre-1919 terraced houses in the north of England. Although the funding for the scheme has now been withdrawn demolitions continue. In 2008 SAVE teamed up with Mark Hines Architects to produce a scheme for renovating and remodelling 500 Victorian terraced houses in east Manchester earmarked for demolition. The proposals showed how the houses could be adapted for a range of housing needs and upgraded to a high standard of energy efficiency. More recently SAVE has purchased a terraced house in an area earmarked for clearance in the ‘Welsh Streets’, Liverpool, which it is renovating.
EXHIBITIONS
SAVE’s foundation was inspired by an exhibition - the Destruction of the Country House, held at the V&A in 1974. Ever since, the photographic exhibition has continued to be an important weapon in SAVE’s armoury. SAVE’s most recent exhibition, Triumph, Disaster & Decay looked at the ongoing heritage crisis in Liverpool.
President: Marcus Binney
Secretary: William Palin
Buildings at Risk Officer: Rhiannon Tracy
Registered Charity 269129
For further information or a full publication list please contact:
SAVE Britain’s Heritage, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ
Tel: 020 7253 3500 Email: office@save.britainsheritage.org
www.savebritainsheritage.org
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