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conservationworks: probono
 
Many Buildings at Risk projects fail from a lack of qualified advice at key points in the project lifecycle. conservationworks:probono seeks to address this by allocating 5% of our consultants' annual hours to providing expertise free of charge to impoverished Buildings at Risk projects.
 

To qualify, buildings must be on at least one Local Authority, English Heritage, SPAB, SAVE Britain's Heritage Building at Risk register. In the first instance, an email or letter of recommendation from your local Conservation Officer or recognised amenity society (Victorian Society, Georgian Group, SPAB, Ancient Monuments Society) should be sent to us, with the name and contact details of the project leader.

 
Listing Applications and Demolition Recording
 We will also consider supporting other kinds of historic buildings work, such as providing support to local amenity societies making an application to English Heritage to list worthy buildings in their areas, or the recording of historic buildings (usually unlisted) before demolition.
There is a formal provision for the recording of listed buildings before demolition in any case. We would be pleased to take on such cases on a commercial basis. (see Consulting).
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Buildings requiring a new use
Buildings become redundant for all sorts of reasons, from changes in farming methods as in the farm building shown above, to sociological changes such as the reduction in church-going which have seen so many chapels and other places of worship become empty. Boarded up and abandoned sites become magnets for anti-social behaviour and can have a damaging effect on the local area. Coming up with practical and workable long-term sustainable solutions for these buildings to give them a proper future takes time and imagination. It also takes money. We can help with identifying suitable new uses, negotiating with the local authority, devising schemes of alteration or conversion, identifying sympathetic new owners, and advise on sources of funding.

 
Buildings requiring repair
Buildings which have fallen out of use because of a need for substantial sums of money or because the skills or materials needed for conservation-standard repair are rare can prove to be intractable problems. We can work with you to identify suitable craftsmen and assist with applications for full, part or match-funding from statutory and charitable bodies for rehabilitation costs.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Small Print:
 

ProBono Scheme

Memorandum

Purpose:

The ConservationWorks:ProBono scheme is a free of charge service intended to support, stimulate and encourage early-stage Buildings at Risk projects and related initiatives being undertaken by charitable organisations, building preservation trusts, community groups and amenity societies (usually themselves having charitable status).

 

Non-contractual relationship:

No relationship between ConservationWorks and any other party under the ProBono scheme may be regarded as contractual. Our time and knowledge is given freely and we apply our expertise just as diligently and completely to any ProBono work as to our professional engagements. ConservationWorks shall decide the limits of its time and other resources deployed to support discrete stages of projects and will communicate clearly with the other party/ies when these have been or are about to be reached.

 

Warranty/ies:

Since we do not charge for the work undertaken under the ProBono scheme, no warranties are offered or should be expected relating to the work and we do not accept any legal responsibility or liability for consequential or other loss suffered as a result of the use or abuse of any data contained in any ProBono submission or relating to any omission or accidental misdirection contained in any data supplied by the company. ProBono works are not covered by any Professional Indemnity cover carried by the Company.

 

Planning Applications:

If submission of any ConservationWorks:ProBono document is contemplated in support of any informal pre-apps discussions or formal application for planning or listed buildings consent, specific permission must be requested in advance and will not be unreasonably withheld. Submission of any data without our express permission in advance will result in an immediate request for withdrawal of the work and may consequently delay the planning process.

 

Copyright and Intellectual property:

Copyright: all images, text, drawings, sketches and/or other supporting documents and intellectual property have been created by, and remain the property of, ConservationWorks UK Ltd at all times up to the limit of copyright law and must be returned within 48 hours on request. No copy or copies in whole or part in any form may be retained if such request is made.  

 

Use of data- non-commercial:

Any images supplied may be used for any non-commercial purpose, including - if required- as evidence in planning enforcement proceedings undertaken by any amenity society and/or local authority but if such purpose is contemplated, notification to us and an acknowledgement of ConservationWorks copyright is required. Should certified copies of any image be required, the legal costs of such certification shall be met by the party contemplating or defending the action.

 

Publicity and commercial use:

Any publication of any part of the work whether text or images, requires consent from a director of ConservationWorks in advance and depending on the circumstances, a fee may be payable. In some cases, consent may also be required by the building owner and it is the project leader's responsibility to apply for such consent which should be in writing.

 

Credits:

Publication of any ConservationWorks image/s shall be credited appropriately as:

© ConservationWorks UK Ltd 2009.