DIRECTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICES, PLANNING CONSULTANCIES AND CHARTERED SURVEYORS EXPERIENCED IN HISTORIC/LISTED BUILDING WORK The Organisations below have paid to be included in the Directory. Consequen1ly,their appearance should not be taken to imply any endorsement or approval by the Association SUSSEX Douglas Briggs Partnership Old Park Farm Old Park Lane Basham West Sussex PO18 BEX Tel: 01243 576611 Fax: 01243 574816 Conservation Architects, Urban Designers and Town Planners. Specialist in handling development in environmentally sensitive areas or affecting Historic Buildings. WEST MIDLANDS Wheatley Taylor Stainburn Lines Chartered Architects Powyke House, Powick Worcester WR2 4QR Tel: 01905 830577 Fax: 01905 830965 Also at Ledbury, Herefordshire and Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire Award winning practice specialising in the restoration, repair and adaptation of Historic Buildings, Listed Buildings and Ancient Monuments. Consultants to English Heritage, The National Trust, Local Authorities and Museum Trusts. Recent projects include the lronbridge Gorge Museum, Kenilworth Castle, Eastnor Castle and Hawkestone Hall. The Practice has over 25 years experience in the specialist field of Conservation work and can offer a full professional service for all types of project. Winners of the 1993 King of Prussia Award and the 1994 John Betjeman Award.' ST Walker and Partners Architects and Consultants 68 Harborne Park Road Harborne Birmingham B17 0DH Tel: 0121-428 4282 Fax: 0121-428 3880 Consultants to the National Trust, English Heritage, and Local Authorities for the repair, consolidation, conservation and reuse of Listed Buildings and scheduled Ancient Monuments. Strategy reports prepared. Recent Commissions include Attingham Park (NT), Stokesay Castle and Clun Castle (EH), Ludlow Castle (Private), Tredegar House and Park, Gwent (Newport Borough Council). WILTSHIRE Geoffrey Butcher, F.C.1.0.B.Eng,TEC. Building Consultant 39 George Street Warminster Wiltshire BA12 BPU Tel: 01985 213125 Fax: 01985 213125 Skilled in bringing listed buildings back into their full use, using traditional materials correctly. Experience in the scheduling of structural surveys and the economic reuse of existing buildings. A wide knowledge of the supervision of all trades. This Directory provides a service for Conservation Officers with Local Authorities, and others, when they are looking for specialist professional help with their conservation and repair of historic/listed buildings. A standard Entry (Six line information panel plus address details) in four consecutiveissues of "Context"at £30.00 per issue costs a total of £120.00plus VAT.Additionallines maybe purchasedat £1.75 per line plus VATper issuei.e.£7.00plus VATforfourconsecutiveissues.Tobe included in the next editionof this Directoryor for furtherinformation pleasewriteor telephone: Context PublishingDepartment,Hall-McCartneyLtd., HeritageHouse,PO Box21, Baldock, HertfordshireSG7 SSH Tel: 01462 896688 Fax: 01462 896677 JOHN BYSOUTH Stone Consultant An independent source of advice to architects, surveyors, engineers and property owners based on 40 years experience in the natural stone industry. 36 years working on many of our finest buildings with the family business J Bysouth Ltd and now as a stone consultant. 90 Selborne Road, Southgate, London N14 7DG Tel/Fax: 0181 882 1554 44 BOOKS will turn repeatedly (and where very specific information is often sought) is a well organised and thorough index. The Mynors is much improved from the earlier edition and is now outstandingly useful in this respect. There is a twentyseven page main index which then refers to numbered paragraphs within the text. Tables listing Legal Cases, Statutes and Measures, Statutory Instruments and Government Policy Guidelines (a further 30 pages) assist further. Cross-referencing both within these indexes and within the text is made very simple. The Cambridgeshire Guide by contrast has a short index of seven pages, much of which is devoted to listing the whereabouts of numbered paragraphs within the 1990 Planning and Listed Building Acts. Although there is a very comprehensive subdivision of the structure of the Contents pages, the reader has greater difficulty quickly locating information by subject. It is irritating that the contents page gives paragraph numbers but the index gives only page numbers: also several index subjects have incorrect page numbers which can be annoying when information is sought quickly. The Mynors method is more consistent and more accurate. Neither book is suited to consumption at one sitting, but the Mynors has a lucid prose style where references to specific legal clauses do not disrupt the overall flow or cogency of the arguments. The Walker volume, by contrast has more of a feel of notes a user might make by highlighting specific passages or writing aides memoir while reading the Acts or the associated guidance in order to improve the sense of the originals or to clarify the legalese but it is certainly none the worse for that. The distinctive approach of each author to the subject provides two volumes which should really be used together. If there is a problem with the Cambridgeshire Guide it is that what it gains, by presenting the law as a sequence of comprehensive summaries, it loses by the constraints of a format which seems to preclude the presentation of an overview. The consistent thread which often emerges from the steady evolution and refinement of the legislation is lost. What is particularly useful, however, is the many, sometimes lengthy footnotes after each chapter, often comprising summaries of Appeal decisions which illustrate points in the main text. Although mostly from Cambridgeshire sources, other significant cases are also included. When the law makers are dormant, advances are made through the Courts and the Planning Inspectorate. A disadvantage of both books is not being able to define the effectiveness of many parts of the codes otherwise so comprehensively described. For example, local authorities may well encouraged by the Government to initiate exemplary prosecutions of criminal acts, but without anyone knowing the frequency or effectiveness of the action taken. Each book will be an invaluable and indispensaible sources of advice and interpretation to which the reader can return and be assured of its authority, and practitioners should try to find room for both on their shelves. If a choice has to be made, the decision may rest on which best meets the reader's day-to- day needs (and to some extent the price). Mynors gives an excellent structured overview and it is easy to find information quickly. One feels the Walker could almost be bound in with the legislation as an essential summary and commentary together with many valuable insights within the footnotes (and the additional material on archaeology). Bob Kindred GRAND FINALE Listed buildings. Roger W. Suddards and June H. Hargreaves. Sweet & Maxwell. 1996. 502 pp. Hardback. ISBN 0 451 43260 8. £60.00 Most people will be familiar with the second edition of this book, this third (post 1990 Act) edition comprehensively updates and expands this seminal work on the legislation relating to conservation. There are new sections on Planning Policy Guidance CONTEXT 52 ., I
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