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?

“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.”

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.