18 C O N T E X T 1 1 2 : N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 9 University of St Andrews with AHRC funding. It is now being managed and developed with entries to 1980 under Walker’s guidance by Historic Scotland and the listing team. This incomparable resource was the subject of an earlier article in Context 106, September 2008. See www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/ index.php. Outreach and engagement are now embodied in the listing processes and the team’s annual programmes. The production of free publications and online pdfs to support the work is a critical part of in our corporate programmes. The ‘30-year understanding’, which has remained a guiding policy for the listing of post-1945 buildings in Scotland, has of course moved on since 1990, and the range of eligible subjects grows annually. However, the public’s opinion of buildings from these decades has not moved with a similar pace. Accordingly, the listing team has recently produced a publication which seeks to encourage debate on the protection of this contentious period. Scotland: building for the future – essays on the architecture of the post-war era (2009) is being followed by a day conference in November (see www.celebratingscotlandsarchitecture.org).The team’s recent publications are freely available online at www.historic-scotland. gov.uk/historicandlistedbuildingspublications. While listing in Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom has followed broadly similar parameters and criteria, there are differences. For example, Scotland categorises the level of special interest determined, and the definitions of these classifications do not translate directly to any in our sibling nations. We continue to recognise special interest at a local level Deborah Mays is head of listing and programme manager with Historic Scotland. 7 Lutyens, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, completed in 1938 and listed in 1951. Information courtesy of Frank Kelsall, as above. at C(S). That said, we do not enjoy the benefit of local lists run by local authorities, which exist in over 40 per cent of England’s equivalent, and which satisfy community affection for subjects that do not offer the necessary special architectural or historic interest. In England, the shortest gap between a building’s completion and its listing is 13 years7, a figure which Scotland shares in its equivalent designation of James Shearer’s David Marshall Lodge (1958, listed in 1971). North of the border, the resurvey of the lists has remained predominantly the work of in-house inspectors and is still in progress; we may list the work of living architects; and, as things stand, we are not looking to a single piece of legislation as proposed by the Heritage Protection Review. Listing is a core tool in the management of the historic environment. To retain its place it must move with modern expectations to be fit for purpose, and continue to provide an informative, constructive foundation for guiding the process of change. We may continue to deliberate if polygons are more meaningful than point data. We may determine to resolve the dilemma of the definition of curtilage, or to conclude that reporting ‘interior not seen’ is no longer viable. But we must continue to be in touch with client groups, and ensure that the process is viable, effective and intelligible, and that the professional judgement at the core of the work commands the respect it earned in listing’s infancy. The current and third phase of the inspectorate’s modernisation includes, among its targeted suite of programmes, a client-centred designation project which is geared to achieving just that. Timeline for listing in Scotland Early 1980s Moratorium in the resurvey Birth of combined lists 1986 Introduction of 1 July 1948 limit to curtilage through Housing and Planning Act 1988 SDD Circular 7/1987 comes into effect, removing need to refer C(S) to Scottish ministers 1990s Gradual introduction of thematic listing 1992 General Development Procedure Order, requiring local authorities to consult with Historic Scotland on development affecting setting of a category A building, scheduling or inventory landscape 1997 Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 2002 Pilot on reinstatement of informal notification of listing 2004 Consultation pilot formally extending to owners and third parties 2004–05 Consultation on format of list descriptions 2006–07 Absorption of B for Group in C(S) 2007–08 Completion of C Review 2009 Modernisation programme: joint working agreement between local authorities and Historic Scotland on listed building consent and listing 1930 Housing (Scotland) Act 1932 Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1935 Housing (Scotland) Act 1936 A Plea for Scotland’s Architectural Heritage by John Crichton Stuart, 4th Marquis of Bute 1947 Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1948 Notes for Guidance for fieldworkers by Ian Lindsay Introduction of curtilage for ancillaries built before 1 July 1948 (when the 1947 Act bites) 1957 Listing of Scottish Churches House, Dunblane (oldest date of listing currently on list) 1966 Completion of the first survey 1969 Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act Removal of need to register listings with Sasines Transfer of formal notification to local authorities Birth of restrictions on demolition and other works to listed buildings 1971–72 Statutory issue of lists from the first survey 1974 Statutory listing of category C 1975 Birth of consolidated lists 1978 C-Review Late 1970s Start of the resurvey
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