To mark their half-century, SAVE Britain’s Heritage have added 50 at-risk buildings to their new-look register – and opened it to everyone for the first time.
Thousands of historic buildings nationwide are standing empty and without a use.
The new entries are being launched at SAVE’s offices this evening, with a screening of SAVE’s 50th anniversary film and a talk from Matthew Mckeague, Chief Executive of the Architectural Heritage Fund. Click here to register for this free event.
The number of buildings on the register stands at over 1,400 and every year more are added, as well as recording both successes and losses. Each year increasing numbers of functional, historic buildings fall into disrepair for want of active maintenance and use. Despite growing recognition of the environmental benefits of reusing historic buildings and their potential to provide exciting spaces for new business, services and housing for their local communities, more and more are being lost. Rising and unpredictable costs, lack of funding, constrained local authority resources and a range of other policy priorities have exposed many of our historic buildings to long-term vulnerability and eventual loss.
SAVE campaigns to protect threatened historic buildings of all types and ages and these new entries to the Buildings at Risk register exemplify the rich variety and interest of the buildings that tell our story. If we lose them, we lose part of our history.
Read the full details here.
Photo credit: SAVE, The Buffet building at Dreamland, Margate, Kent