Other business Other topics discussed included: problems of lack of liaison between HBMCInspectors and local authority staff; a parliamentary inquiry (Joint Environment Committee) into historic building conservation, for whcih we SQould be thinking of presenting evidence; and the problem of theft of architectural features from empty listed buildings, particularly following advertisement of a listed building application. If you wish to follow up the matters briefly outlined in this report, the regional contacts will have a copy of the minutes of the meeting in full. NEWSOF MEMBERS Jenny Birkett Editor The Membership Secretary has received notification from Richard Neale (Member) that he has recently left his job as Conservation Officer with Westminster City Council and set up his own joinery company producing gazebos, conservatories and garden buildings. For those of you who maintain an index of craftsmen, the contact address is: 65 Brook St, Benson, Oxfordshire. Since the last issue of CONTEXT, the following additions have been made to the membership list; CLIVE ALEXANDER PETER BEAMISS IAN BURROW THE CIVIC TRUST KEVIN COLE RAY CONNELL CHARLESDONOVAN DEREKFISHER KATHRYNGOODWIN JIM HILL Tamworth Borough Peak Park Joint Planning Board Assoc. of County Archaeological Officers (Chairman) Norwich City Council Reavell & Cahill (architect in private practice) Leominster District West Midlands County Bradford Met. District Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food CHARLESJACKSON- Essex County County ROULSTON GEOFFREYNOBLE NORTHWESTCIVIC IAIN PATTERSON ANNROSTRON SCOTTISHOFFICE BARRYSELLERS JOHN SEWELL PAUL SKEET JULIA SMITH KEN SMITH RAYMONDSUTTON RICHARDTAYLOR Historic Buildings & Monuments Commission TRUST Bristol City Council Norwich City Council (LIBRARY) London Borough of Lewisham Peak Park Joint Planning Board Essex County Council Test Valley Borough Assoc. of County Archaeological Officers (Hon. Secretary) London Borough of Havering Peak Park Joint Planning Board GORDONMICHELLOBE Slightly belated congratulations to Gordon Michell, honorary member of ACO, on his QBE in the last Honours List. PSEUD'S CORNER (With apologies to Lord Gnome) He found out about the scholarship from former scholar Tim Buxbaum and applied because he liked the idea of travelling to repair programmes in different parts of Britain and wanted to broaden hi, knowledge. Previously more interested in neo-classical buildings, he is now starting to "get a thrill' out of mediaeval buildmgs. His prarncal experience be- (ore the scholar,hir ha, mcludc:-d helping on a mass housmg ,cheme outside Edinburgh and working for artist, poet and landscape designer Ian Hamilton Finlay. where he built a heather thatched goose hut and a ,tone grotto. Page 16
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