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By: Historic Liverpool 2010: A year in review

Historic Liverpool 2010: A year in review — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:59:12 +0000

[...] and April went by in a blur (oh yes, probably because I got married) and when things recovered the election was fast approaching. At the same time Lewis’s was heading for closure as everyone felt the pinch of [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:57:08 +0000

Hi Pete,

I’m hoping the legislation will be comprehensive enough. Although it’s one piece of legislation, the main idea with it is to bring all sites under one hierarchical system. I’m paraphrasing heavily here, I suspect, but all sites will be ‘Designated’, but under this overall category the other types of site will be separated. This allows more individual sets of regulations to operate on each type. I believe this will allow for the different conservation issues facing, say, designated historic buildings compared to designated parks and gardens.
I think the main benefits of this will be in reducing the ‘double-handling’ (as English Heritage term it) and centralise the whole system. It should make it easier for EH and conservationists to keep track of what is designated, and in what way, and also should make the process more streamlined and transparent for those who currently have to wade through scheduled monuments vs listed buildings vs etc etc in the planning process. There’s information on the EH Heritage Protection Reform website: http://tinyurl.com/38duh6b
Now, as to my QR code: I’ve put it on the About page (http://www.liverpool-landscapes.net/about/). The thing is, I haven’t quite worked out what to do with it yet! Any ideas? I was thinking of getting business cards printed just for this! What do you think?

By: pete c

pete c — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:17:27 +0000

Hello Martin, thanks for the post, but do you really think having one piece of legislation for the protection of a diverse type of in use, out of use, urban and rural sites will be comprehensive enough? Where’s your QR code?
Pete

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:31:06 +0000

That’s a very interesting blog, CO. I might have to start following it. I’m glad that there seem to be more voices on the side of reason than there are in the Trust. I know from various unrelated groups that I’m part of that zealots do nothing but provide headlines and make the rest of us dismissable.

By: Conservation Officer

Conservation Officer — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:47:11 +0000

Looks as if someone was asking the same questions as long ago as 2008
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3112355

“You have cited the ‘Liverpool Preservation Trust’, approvingly. This is an organisation that appears to be un-registered with the Charities Commission, to have no constitution, one ‘trustee’ (or ‘chairman’) and no members. I understand the sole ‘trustee’ parted ways with the Merseyside Civic Society because of his idiosyncratic views about the future of the city. The ‘trust’ is always happy to provide personal opinions; it is for others to decide how representative they are in reporting them and the credibility it imparts on the reporter in doing so.”

By: Conservation Officer

Conservation Officer — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:29:26 +0000

That’s me on the BD site, however there do seem to be one or two others around, including a blogger who’s started this

http://the-liverpool-preservation-trust.blogspot.com/

It has, I understand, annoyed Wayne somewhat as he’s currently lashing out with pointless threats of legal action against people like me who have nothing to do with it. I suppose if you make enough enemies you’ll never know which one is out to get you.

Though interestingly when I protested at his “outing” me on his blog, and his blackmailing threat to do so to my employers, on the grounds that if I post in my own time as “Conservation Officer” or “CO” about a subject my employers have nothing to do with, I must be representing their views – referring him to the Malicious Communications Act 1988, he chose to ignore it.

Pot and kettle spring to mind.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:50:04 +0000

Ahh, are you the anonymous member of the ‘development Cabal’ commenting on the Quality of Mersey article, or are there more who doubt LPT’s membership? I admire your asking about joining the LPT, as I failed to summon the courage!
I did a bit of cursory research a little while ago, and found nothing about the Trust unless it was directly related to a Colquhoun comment. I did find that to use the word ‘Trust’ requires a certain amount of legal conditions (I think relating to operating transparently, accounting etc.). I couldn’t find anything about the LPT.
For you or anyone else interested in the exchange on this topic I’ve just mentioned, it’s at http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3161475.

By: Conservation Officer

Conservation Officer — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:30:16 +0000

Just smiling at your reference to the Liverpool Preservation Trust. They (or rather, he) are having a go at me at the moment for daring to ask how to join, and speculating about whether they really exist. Do you know?

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:55:05 +0000

Hi Adrian,
Thanks for pointing that out – I thought they were going to build a second wheel, and keep them both, but never mind!
I used to be able to see the wall when Liverpool One first opened, but more recently it’s either too dark down there or there’s condensation on the glass. To be fair, the first time I went I was being shown it by one of the Liverpool Museum staff. It’s quite off to one side, I seem to remember. Still, hopefully the ‘visitor’s facility’ will let us all have a better look!

Martin

By: Adrian McEwen

Adrian McEwen — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:57:29 +0000

I still haven’t managed to make out the dock wall whenever I’ve peered down through the window in Liverpool One, but just wanted to make a minor correction – the Liverpool Wheel isn’t in Chavasse Park in Liverpool One any more, it was only there for Christmas. It’s been moved to the filled-in Kings Dock area and is next to the Echo Arena.