4 C O N T E X T 1 2 0 : J U LY 2 0 1 1 ‘I’M INCREDULOUS that some people think that No ' and No , Broadgate are worth preserving in their own right.They are not wonderful, they are no longer fit for purpose and even Peter Foggo, the architect who designed them, didn’t like them.’ Ken Shuttleworth, architect of the building proposed to replace part of the Broadgate development ‘NEVER DID I hear him say that. No architect would design buildings he didn’t like and put them up. My husband definitely did not hate or dislike his own buildings. Full stop. For anyone to suggest he would want them demolished is wrong.’ Lilian Foggo, widow of the architect ‘THE CITY is – and always has been – first and foremost a place of business, and it must be allowed to adapt to meet the long-term business needs of current and potential future occupiers. Broadgate helped facilitate the growth of the Square Mile into the world’s leading financial centre and, as a result of today’s decision, I have no doubt that it will play a leading role in helping the City to retain this status for many years to come.’ Stuart Fraser, the City of London Corporation’s policy chairman, quoted in the Guardian after culture secretary Jeremy Hunt refused to accept a recommendation from English Heritage that the Broadgate development should be listed. ‘THERE HAS been some suggestion that listing stunts investment or creates “streetscape museums”.This is to entirely misinterpret the purpose and effect of listing. It would have been entirely possible to consider significant alteration to the inherently flexible Broadgate Square buildings while enabling the original scheme’s intrinsic qualities to shine as an exemplar of commercial development… Broadgate Square may not be everyone’s idea of heritage, but every decade has its architectural high points, and the !#$"s are no different.’ English Heritage’s response ‘THE ONGOING vitality of the City rests on it retaining and valuing the best buildings of all periods of its construction.This is the latest in a line of recent cases where the Twentieth Century Society believes factors other than those that should be considered in the listing process have decided the fate of an important historic building.’ JonWright of the Twentieth Century Society commenting on the Broadgate decision ‘THE BASIC problem is that the heritage protection system requires resourcing that is not actually there. The system needs expert assessment, but that requires a good deal of resourcing and government has reduced it dramatically over the past ten years and, in particular, the last six months.’ Jonathan Thompson, heritage adviser to the Country Land and Business Association, talking to Planning about the Penfold Review of non-planning consents ‘PLANNING authorities in rural areas with high demand for homes may want to consider amending their local planning policies to support the change of use of farm buildings to affordable homes where these are considered inappropriate for employment use, or take the need for affordable homes into account in assessing individual applications.’ The Government’s response to the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s report into farming in England’s upland areas ‘THIS IS madness! The world around us changes, things fall into disrepair or are no longer needed.We don’t have to preserve the past the way we used to, we have technology which can do it better. Why waste money and time? Flatten these unnecessary carbuncles and move on.’ ‘IF IT NEEDS work done to it, let the people who are interested in it pay for it. I don’t give a damn about the place so as long as I don’t have to pay towards it. I don’t care!’ Two online comments on the Scotsman’s website following the publication of an article reporting that some of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s best-known buildings were being allowed to slide into disrepair. not just the physical nature of home, but also the ideas, meanings and values which are expressed through home. The Geffrye explores the home from !,"" to the present day, with a focus on the living rooms of the urban middle classes in England, particularly London. A chronological sequence of period rooms show how homes have been used and furnished over the past '"" years, reflecting the changes in society and patterns of behaviour as well as style, fashion and taste. The museum is set in the !$th-century former almshouses of the Ironmongers’ Company in Shoreditch, east London. Wentworth Woodhouse Plans are being prepared to restore Wentworth Woodhouse, described by Marcus Binney as ‘unquestionably the finest Georgian house in England’. The Grade I listed house, near Rotherham, SouthYorkshire, is the largest private residence in Europe. It was built over a &( year period from !%&' for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham. The east front, at ,!(-foot long, twice as wide as Buckingham Palace, is the longest country house facade in Europe. The house, covering over &.( acres, is said to have +,( rooms. The owners are hoping to develop mixed business uses in the Grade I listed stable block and riding school, including an exhibition and conference venue. Their proposal for the mansion house is to create an hotel and spa with a publicly accessible museum in the central and grandest rooms. A survey has highlighted that extensive repairs are required to the fabric of all the listed properties. WentworthWoodhouse east front
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