IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Designing Buildings – the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki platform – headlining the ‘amenity’ Context on ‘The Hydro Electric Station on the River Dee’ from HESPR member Donald Insall Associates (DIA).
… Donald Insall Associates wants to give something back in the places where we work…
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Tony Barton of DIA writes for Context, via Designing Buildings:
… A project to bring new life to the former Hydro Electric Station on the River Dee in Chester shows how building conservationists can work with the voluntary sector.
Donald Insall Associates wants to give something back in the places where we work, including through a range of support for the amazing people who voluntarily care for, fight for and proactively seek improvements for our built heritage….
The Hydro Electric Station on the River Dee, a Grade II listed building, was commissioned in 1913 to provide electricity for Chester, which it did for about 40 years, before being converted into a water pumping utility which ceased operation only in the last couple of years….
Although the Hydro is not Chester’s most attractive listed building, it is probably its most protected. In addition to being listed and in a conservation area, it sits on the weir, so works require scheduled monument consent and must satisfy a plethora of habitat and environmental criteria, being in a special area of conservation and a site of special scientific interest.
We were in the right place at the right time when a group of scientists, academics and environmentalists started to look again at the building and arranged rare access….
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