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Heritage Assets and Regeneration
Name Jon Ackroyd – Acting Team Leader, Design & Conservation,
Planning ServiceCity of Bradford MDC
Heritage Assets?
• The obvious built heritage:– c.5800 listed buildings– 59 conservation areas, all with character
appraisals and a programme of review
• The less obvious:- 13 registered parks and landscapes- 203 scheduled monuments- 1 registered battlefield shared with Leeds and Kirklees
What value has heritage to regeneration?
• Heritage provides sense of place
• Assets illustrate historic development of our environment, of technology and industry, and reflect how we lived and worked.
• Assets instil local identity and provide constants or landmarks in mental image of our environment.
• Any change can be controversial, potential harm or loss often results in resistance or anger.
Heritage Regeneration…
• Removes urban and visual blight.• Stimulates activity, economy and positive spiral – neighbouring
refurbishments and contemporary new build have rejuvenated this city centre conservation area fronting onto a main arterial road.
• Provides jobs and sustains craft skills – the middle 3/5 of the façade had to be taken down and rebuilt.
• Promotes sustainability by re-using building stock.
Heritage Regeneration…
• Provides new local landmarks and facilities – a new community health education centre and medical centre for a deprived city suburb.
• Restores significant listed buildings at risk.• Removes blight.• Reinforces sense of place.
Heritage Regeneration…
• Removes blight from local communities, restoring landmark buildings.
• Achieves sustainability by re-using building stock.• Contributes to need for local housing – 11 high quality
apartments created in a former Sunday School.
Heritage as the context
• Historic buildings and areas often robust enough to take good contemporary intervention.
• Proportionate intervention needed to ensure redundant buildings or deprived areas are rejuvenated.
Heritage as the catalyst
• Exemplary design and quality stimulate regeneration and reinforce local distinctiveness.
• Longevity assured through design and quality. • Feel-good factor and increased vitality stimulate
continued regeneration and investment.
Making it happen…
Making it happen…
• HLF THI funding for areas - £2 million for Keighley, £750,000 for Pontefract.
• Engaging with community, positive guidance stimulating improvement – localism in action? English Heritage Capacity Building Grant.
• Diversification – identifying new ways of achieving heritage benefits.
Making it happen…
• 2 neighbouring buildings at risk, potential resort to powers under Listed Buildings Act and Building Act.
• Receiving banks ultimately agreed to implement planning permissions to protect assets.
• Court House conversion to 14 apartments, project cost £700,000.
• York House conversion to 24 apartments, £990,000.
What Next?
• Refurbish and adapt social housing with HCA funds? Integrate new housing, promote revitalisation of the conservation area.
• How to facilitate regeneration of large obsolete heritage assets when borrowing stalled – new system of heritage loans through trusts or public/private partnerships?
• The visual and dynamic benefits are clear, we must all work to make it happen.