Heritage Assets

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Heritage Assets Low Carbon Renovation
Experiences from a joint project of Kirklees
Council Leeds City Council

• RTPI Conference Emerging contexts for Heritage
  and Conservation 2011.

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Matt Bentley Senior Conservation Officer
Sustainable Development Unit Leeds City
Council.Joanne Needham Conservation
Design Officer Investment Regeneration Service
Kirklees Council.
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Brief Introduction to our project

• Regional project lead by Leeds City Council and
  Kirklees Council
• Part of a wider project on up-skilling local
  governments in climate change
• Specifically leading on the role Heritage Assets
  can play in the battle against climate change

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Overview of project origins

• What is RIEP?
• Where is the funding from?
• What RIEP streams were identified for up-skilling
  professionals?
• Why was heritage identified as a key theme?

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National policy
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Key objectives

• Behaviours performance
• Behaviour and performance of historic buildings
• Behaviour of users
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• Historic environment
• Designated assets (Significance)
• Undesignated assets (Local distinctiveness
  sense of place)
• Promote advocate
• A holistic approach (Understanding the behaviour
  and performance of the building and its users
  should inform any upgrading/improvements NOT a
  piecemeal approach)

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Target audience

• Building owners users
• Politicians
• Built environment professionals (Planners,
  Architects, Surveyors, Engineers etc)
• Building industry
• Suppliers of suitable products and services (both
  heritage and green)
• Educational institutions (academic vocational)
• Students
• Amenity and civic societies and other interested
  groups/bodies

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Project outputs

• Guidance training module (web-based resource)
  to be delivered via RIEP
• Good practice case studies (designated assets)
• Preparation of brief for exemplar building case
  studies (behavioural performance monitoring
  before and after works)
• Toolkit
• Guidance of ways to improve typical undesignated
  assets
• Professional educational event via HELM (June
  2011)
• Public awareness event (June 2011)

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Progress to date

• Best practice? - struggling with case studies
• June events - coming together, working with HELM,
  lots of interest
• Exemplar work - due to go out to tender for
  exemplar working on 'toolkit'
• Guidance and training questionnaire released,
  but responses limited
• Building up a good network of contacts and
  interest of various groups and individuals

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Our experience

• The project has, and continues to, receive a lot
  of interest by all those contacted thus far by
  ourselves and others are also registering their
  interest who have heard about the project through
  other channels
• Caution - many projects that have been
  self-promoted as exemplars in terms of building
  conservation have been harmful/damaging
• There is a need for a more co-ordinated approach
  regionally and nationally
• Lots of work being undertaken, but not much of it
  known about outside of specialist circles

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Our experience

• There are only 8 months from November 2010
  June 2011!

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Desired results

• Hope to help to raise awareness of the subject
  and continue the dialogue with the interested
  parties
• Hope to create new links between interested
  parties and strengthen existing links and
  relationships
• Hope to see a reduction in our carbon footprint
  by providing useful outcomes that will assist
  people in making informed decisions
• Hope that this project will just be the beginning
  and lead to further work and projects

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Get involved

• We welcome your comments both positive and
  negative
• We welcome ideas and offers of involvement
• Can you suggest any good practice case studies?
• What are your thoughts on the planned toolkit
  designed to assist owners and agents?
• Who what would you like to see at the education
  day (HELM)?
• What would you want to see in the training module
  (RIEP)?

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Events

• Education day June, details to be announced.
• Public awareness event June, details to be
  announced.

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Thank you

• Contact details
• Matt Bentley
• matthew.bentley_at_leeds.gov.uk
• 0113 2478145
• Joanne Needham
• joanne.needham_at_kirklees.gov.uk
• 01484 225800