RESEARCH STUDIES AND REPORTS

Evaluation of conservation outcomes of heritage grants projects (2007)
We undertook phase I of this Heritage Lottery Fund research on schemes funded under its Heritage Grants programme. Representing a spend of nearly £28 million, the case studies included a Turkish Bath, an Iron Age hillfort, an historic docks complex, and the environs of a major monument at the heart of a World Heritage Site.

Park Mansions at Risk in London (2004)
A study undertaken jointly for English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund into the key issues affecting the repair and re-use of nine mansions at risk in public parks in London, with a detailed analysis of four sites and strategies for developing solutions.

Streamlining listed building consent - lessons from the use of management agreements (2003)
A two-year project on the use of Management Agreements for listed buildings, commissioned by English Heritage and the Department for Communities and Local Government (then DETR). It provided the basis for developing Heritage Partnership Agreements through the Heritage Protection Review.

The Council of Europe

We are advising the Cultural Heritage and Landscape division on pilot studies for monitoring European Conventions on the conservation of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage in Europe.

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