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What options are there for protecting buildings from demolition?
There are a lot of nice big old houses around us, on the ridge of the Wirral overlooking the port of Liverpool, later Victorian and Edwardian mainly.
Some like ours are small enough to be split into two semis, some larger ones contain multiple apartments/dwellings which fetch strong money, but also some are quite run down and or old peoples homes of which several have closed.
There are number that are grade ii listed, but obviously plenty are not. We appear to be going through a push to redevelop sites into new homes.
Daniel
There are a lot of nice big old houses around us, on the ridge of the Wirral overlooking the port of Liverpool, later Victorian and Edwardian mainly.
Some like ours are small enough to be split into two semis, some larger ones contain multiple apartments/dwellings which fetch strong money, but also some are quite run down and or old peoples homes of which several have closed.
There are number that are grade ii listed, but obviously plenty are not. We appear to be going through a push to redevelop sites into new homes.
Daniel
dhutch said:
What options are there for protecting buildings from demolition?
There are a lot of nice big old houses around us, on the ridge of the Wirral overlooking the port of Liverpool, later Victorian and Edwardian mainly.
Some like ours are small enough to be split into two semis, some larger ones contain multiple apartments/dwellings which fetch strong money, but also some are quite run down and or old peoples homes of which several have closed.
There are number that are grade ii listed, but obviously plenty are not. We appear to be going through a push to redevelop sites into new homes.
Daniel
If they are not listed, it's very difficult to protect these buildings from demolition given the pressure to build more houses. Sometimes they can be sensitively adapted and divided into smaller units. But the way the VAT regime is structured tends to favour new build rather than renovation/restoration of existing buildings.There are a lot of nice big old houses around us, on the ridge of the Wirral overlooking the port of Liverpool, later Victorian and Edwardian mainly.
Some like ours are small enough to be split into two semis, some larger ones contain multiple apartments/dwellings which fetch strong money, but also some are quite run down and or old peoples homes of which several have closed.
There are number that are grade ii listed, but obviously plenty are not. We appear to be going through a push to redevelop sites into new homes.
Daniel
Even when they are listed, they can still be lost if the owners claim they are beyond repair for example (it's also not unheard of for some of these buildings to suddenly go up in flames).
By way of example here's a rather interesting detached house built in the 1930s I think. In south-west London. Architect-designed, decent sized plot, original windows etc. By no means beyond repair.
Now a pile of rubble, to be replaced by a couple of identikit modern properties.
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