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The Victorian Society urges Preston Council not to let flats plan for former Park Hotel extension ruin historic views
28/06/2023
The Victorian Society has objected to plans to extend the elegant former Park Hotel in Preston with a huge L-shaped, wrap around, extension which is 4-5 stories higher than the original building. The hotel site needs sensitive development as it is highly visible from the railway and surrounding listed parks and conservation areas. There is a precedent for further building on the site of the demolished neighbouring 60s tower block, but the current plans will harm the historic building and the surrounding area.
Griff Rhys Jones launches 2023 Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
20/06/2023
The Top Ten Endangered Victorian and Edwardian Buildings list 2023 has beeen revealed by the Victorian Society's President. The full list is here.
Griff Rhys Jones and heritage campaigners to ask Michael Gove to decide Liverpool Street Station’s future
19/06/2023
The campaign to Save Liverpool Street Station (LISSCA) will ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, to ‘call in’ plans to partially demolish Liverpool Street Station and build a tower over the grade II* former great eastern hotel and make the decision himself. The Society urges the public to sign the petition asking Sellar and Network Rail to abandon the plans. If you want to support our work fighting for heritage click here to join.
Life-saving landmark Somerset tower in Rockwell Green features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
18/06/2023
Rockwell Green Water Tower in Somerset is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. The Victorian Tower now requires a new owner - it would make a unique residential conversion. The Society urges the present owner to sell so the Tower can be sensitively re-used.
The Coach and Horses historic hotel in Wallsend, Sting’s home town, features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2023
18/06/2023
The Coach and Horses Hotel in Wallsend is on the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. The Grade II listed former hotel is for sale has been empty for years and needs rapid investment.
The Constitutional Club one of Lincoln’s finest Victorian buildings features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
18/06/2023
Lincoln’s former Constitutional Club is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023. The Grade II listed 1895 building is empty and for sale.
Blackborough House mansion that became a hostel for the homeless on Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023
18/06/2023
Blackborough House in Kentisbeare in Devon is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. The house is one of Devon's finest architectural gems set in the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Soldier's Point in Anglesey features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
18/06/2023
Soldier’s Point House in Holyhead is on the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. The Grade II listed house needs urgent works and a long term plan if it is to survive.
North West’s only historic Turkish baths features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
18/06/2023
Carlisle’s Grade II listed Edwardian Turkish Baths in Cumbria is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. It needs local ownership and support to bring it back into community use for another century
Liverpool Street Station on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
18/06/2023
Liverpool Street Station and the former Great Eastern Hotel are on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023.
Two Norwich engineering marvels that saved lives feature on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
18/06/2023
Trowse Sewage Pumping Stations in Bracondale in Norfolk is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. The pair of rare Grade II listed Victorian sewage pumping stations from 1869 and 1909, designed by Alfred Morant, need significant investment to restore and reuse them if they are to survive.
Former Office for the Board of Guardians of Walsall Poor Law Union features in Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
18/06/2023
The former Office for the Board of Guardians of Walsall Poor Law Union is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023. The building is now in urgent need of investment and restoration to survive.
St Andrew's Church in Temple Grafton trying to raise £250,000 features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
18/06/2023
St Andrew’s Church in Temple Grafton in Warwickshire is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023. The Grade II listed 1875 church needs expensive emergency work if it is to survive.
LISSCA sends letter to the Editor of The Times
10/05/2023
Victorian Society and LISSCA campaign President Griff Rhys Jones wrote a letter to the editor of The Times for publication on the newspaper's letter page. It appeared in print on 9th May 2023. Griff's letter was supported by 34 signatories from architecture, academia, heritage, culture, the arts and planning.
Victorian Society's amendments removing permitted development rights for demolition debated in the House of Lords
28/04/2023
Baroness Andrews, Lord Carrington of Fulham and Lord Shipley championed our amendments to the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill which would remove Permitted Development Rights for demolition. The amendments, detailed below, do not go to a vote at committee stage. We intend to bring the issue back at report stage following the Society’s useful meeting with the Heritage Minister, Lord Parkinson to discuss the issues.
Book tickets for our AGM weekend and discover Bath's Victorian heritage this October
27/04/2023
This October (6th to 8th) join us in Bath for our AGM weekend and the opportunity to discover the city's Victorian heritage.
10 difficult questions to ask about the Liverpool Street Station demolition plans!
19/04/2023
These questions on plans to partially demolish Liverpool Street Station and cantilever a tower over the grade II* hotel need answering.
The Victorian Society encourages people to object to insensitive 10 storey tower at Gloucester's historic docks
29/03/2023
The Victorian Society has objected to plans to redevelop the Grade II listed former Downings Malthouse. The plans would heavily alter what survives of the listed buildings, with new residential development behind the retained facades, including a 10 storey tower. This would harm Gloucester’s historic docks, the wider city scape and set a worrying new precedent for allowing inappropriately tall buildings in the Cathedral city.
City of London’s protection of heritage and the environment questioned as tower overshadowing Leadenhall Market approved
15/03/2023
The Victorian Society objected to plans for a 32-storey tower in Leadenhall Market Conservation Area which will loom over one of the city’s architectural jewels - the 1881 Grade II* listed Leadenhall Market.
Rent office space at our Grade II listed headquarters in Chiswick, London
14/03/2023
Do you know a charity or small business that could rent an office space at our Grade II listed headquarters at 1 Priory Gardens, Chiswick, London?
