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Dear
iGreens, What's
your view on the listed building procedure? It seems
to me that bodies such as English Heritage, the Victorian Society, Civic Trust
and all those other quasi-conservationist groups who profess to protect our
built environment, are achieving the exact opposite. By imposing unreasonable
demands on listed building owners (without any financial commitment themselves)
they hasten building deterioration. In my
experience, owners are often unable to afford the demands of preservation in the precious way often
prescribed, so instead they do nothing.. The
built environment, like everything else, needs to evolve to meet new
requirements. I believe any building has to "earn" its
right to remain. This may include historical reasons, and often it is cheaper to refurbish than to re-build, but the current
craze of preserving anything that is "old" is absurd. More important,
it inhibits freedom and growth. Why, after
all, list so many chapels, mills, warehouses, houses, when just a
handful would suffice to remind us of the past? If a building has a use, keep it
and use it. If it has no use, why keep it to let it go to rack and ruin?
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