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 Building on… ‘the creative reuse of ordinary buildings… revolutionising regeneration’.
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Ben Flatman writes in Building:
… For much of the past century, developers and architects told communities up and down the country that if they wanted to reinvigorate their towns and boost growth, the first thing they needed to do was knock down the old streets and buildings and replace them with new ones…..
….Historic town centres, with their flexible fine grain of smaller, adaptable buildings, were gutted. Much-loved buildings were razed to the ground, independent retailers replaced by chains, and the distinctiveness and local pride that made places special were lost…
… a positive story around the power of local engagement, the value of reusing existing buildings, and the need for local authorities and developers to start seeing our built environment from new perspectives. In particular, there was a focus on celebrating ordinary buildings that many developers, councils and consultants often regard as too challenging to reuse….
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