- YORKSHIRE & HUMBERSIDE towns. Nationally over 500 listed buildings a year have been deleted from the earlier lists since 1983, compared to an average of 60 for the previous 6 years. An ongoing role for field workers? What of the experience and expertise of the field workers gained during the resurvey? Several are employed on continuing resurvey worl<, mostly outside the region, but few can even apply for jobs in the Districts they surveyed because of lack of planning experience or formal planning qualifications. As the RTPI is considering broadening its membership should there not be some scope to include them so that their skills can be used within the Districts? WEST YORKSHIRE RESURVEY REACTIONS Data on West Yorkshire has been collated with the aid of Peter Thornborrow, ex fieldworker and the West Yorkshire Archaeology Service's Historic Buildings Officer, and the district's conservation officers at their quarterly meetings. The SMR and recent RCHM surveys of rural and workers houses, mills and churches provides detailed data for comparison purposes. A number of omissions thus noted have been drawn to the attention of the DOE for spotlistihg. TABLE 2 tabulates the expected final results of the resurvey whilst FIGURE 2 gives the distribution of actual buildings across the County although areas still remain to be completed in Halifax and Pontefract. The County as a whole has the richest heritage of any metropolitan area outside London but considerable varicftion exists within the county. The higher density of listed buildings to the west is a consequence of the full flowering of the industrial revolution in the hills and valleys of the Pennines rather than pressures on fieldworkers to complete the eastern areas near the end of their contracts. Previous Resurveys Major concern over the I 970's lists is reflected in the number of spotlistings KIRK.LEES KEY 0-8 8-16 16-32 32-48 N/A 48-64 N/A 64-80 80+ FIG. 2. DENSITY OF LISTED BUILDINGS IN WEST YORKSHIRE (Buildings/Sq Mile) particularly in Sheffield, with 70 additions since 1973, and Leeds, with over 120 as well as 2 complete Victorian Arcades since 1976. Often occurring late in the development process such listings are often seen to hinder the efforts to regenerate central areas. Condition and Use The identification of major dereliction and underuse of listed buildings following the Kirklees Buildings Preservation Trust's survey of condition and use must lead other authorities to evaluate their own stock and decide priorities. It is hoped that a county wide view will guide such priorities in West Yorkshire. Ongoing analysis of the lists To date there has been little analysis of buildings by type, construction, use or age as outlined by Oliver Bott for Cheshire in Context No 16. One surpnsmg fact has emerged - the non comparability of local statistics with any other published figures for the region. DOE, HBMC and Tourist Board figures are assumed to refer to listed building 'entries' because of the difficulties of ensuring accurate counts of actual structures where postal numbering, conversions, and attached buildings and structures introduce inaccuracies. Even the tables used to illustrate this article do not agree! Do other regions and counties figures.also exhibit such discrepancies? Issues generated by the resurvey and the size and diversity of the Heritage in West Yorkshire will be debated at the ACO Conference at Hebden Bridge, Thursday 21st April 88. Derek Green, Wakefield MDC DISTRICT Listed buildingentries District totals Percent Increase Total Distribution per I II* II A B C Before/ After Total/Survey Area Buildings Sq Mile 1000 People LEEDS 34 55 1696 7 6 25 1228/ 1822 147% 294% 2940 13.5 4.1 KIRKLEES 10 55 2851 I 15 0 I 533/2932 191% 932% 4387 27.7 11.0 CALDERDALE 14 89 1925 2 1 8 650/2039 313% 507% 3655 26.0 19.0 BRADFORD 20 66 2179 0 2 l 639/2265 354% 431% 5482 39.2 11.8 WAKEFIELD 24 52 597 2 5 2 439/682 151% 208% 944 7.3 3.0 WEST YORKSHIRE 102 317 9224 12 29 36 4489/9722 216% 445% 17408 22.2 8.4 TABLE 2. THE LISTED BUILDING RESURVEY IN WEST YORKSHIRE 1988 6
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