The new issue of the IHBC’s journal, Context No. 172 takes as its theme ’Regulations and Codes, looking at how they ‘have shaped and are shaping the historic environment.’
… Successful solutions are always possible, but care and commitment are needed…
The IHBC writes:
This issue of Context focuses on how regulations and codes have shaped and are shaping the historic environment. The questions are always: what is important to regulate and control? How will the process be managed? Who will be the winners and losers? It is not just a matter of balancing private and public interests. Several competing public interests often need to be resolved: between the appearance of a historic building and its energy performance, for example. Successful solutions are always possible, but care and commitment are needed if they are to be found.
The current UK government is in favour of both deregulation and regulation in the built environment. How is that possible? The answer may be that regulating through such means as design codes, pattern books and street votes will allow regulation in some local areas at the same time as allowing deregulation more generally – by relaxing local-authority-wide planning control, for example. Pilot schemes are currently testing some of these approaches, and other pilots will no doubt follow. They will probably conclude that innovative approaches to regulations and codes can work well if they are managed with the right democratic processes and the necessary skills.
See themed and special feature articles:
- ROBERT HUXFORD – A brief history of building regulations and control
- LIZ MAYLE – Patterns of influence
- ROY LEWIS – Design codes: intentions and reality
- DAVE CHETWYN – Planning reform in England
- TONY GWYNNE – New building regulations
- LOUISE PRIESTMAN – Kyiv: a tour of the city
- ANTHEA JONES – The history of a simple church
- JAGJIT SINGH – Moulds in historic buildings
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