Comments on: Taking Liberties In Norton Folgate

By: caroline terry

caroline terry — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:19:11 +0000

The destruction of London’s history is awful. I am totally against this development proposal.

By: saveHOVE

saveHOVE — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:21:43 +0000

English Heritage is a problem as it is a Statutory Consultee too often abrogating responsibility for defending heritage.

Local Authority cuts see job losses in planning & conservation depts but EH passes on the job of commenting on applications to the overworked rump still in post. They call that making a response!

For them to become heritage clearance agents in cahoots with developers is ominous.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 18:52:34 +0000

Excellent articles, brilliant campaign. Have just sent off objections. Thanks for all the hard work. Wendy

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 16:14:28 +0000

Here here, thank God for people like Alec Forshaw. We had a problem here with a local family wanting to turn their land, that they had bought over the years, on the edge of an area of outstanding natural beauty, into what amounted to a theme park. As they had also bought a former rectory my son fought to get this recognized by English Heritage as of architectural importance despite them refusing to do so when approached by our local council. The outcome was that, at the very last moment, the rectory was listed Grade II and the planning inspector and Eric Pickles refused the planning application. It can be done, and thankfully, Alec Forshaw is like my son and knows how to do it, someone should get English Heritage to have a rethink, they will do so if approached in the right way with all the facts, there is no point in making an enemy of them, you need them on your side!!

Pauline.

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 09:04:22 +0000

Excellent idea @Glenn, I’ll do that too.
Brilliant approach re Alec Forshaw, well done

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 08:59:59 +0000

I hope that the protests will be successful. Do the people at English Heritage get paid for allowing such destruction everywhere? Valerie

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 08:52:20 +0000

I suspect this is an instance of what is called “Regulatory Capture” where the poacher gets a job as a gamekeeper, but still rewards his/her friends outside.
See also Gas / Electricity / Water prices ….
Glenn is perfectly correct, but until whoever the “moles” are in “English Heritage” are uncovered, there is not a lot to be done, except one thing at a time, like this.
See also “Nooks & Corners” (of the new barbarism) in “Private Eye”

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 07:12:09 +0000

Further to my previous comment, some more useful email addresses.
Chief.Executive@english-heritage.org.uk (Simon Thurley)
london@english-heritage.org.uk

I am incensed!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 06:45:16 +0000

Perhaps ‘English Heritage’ is a misnomer. An online thesaurus lists the following synonyms for ‘heritage’…ancestry, culture, custom, legacy, right, tradition, bequest, birthright, convention, dowry,endowment, estate, fashion, inheritance, lot, patrimony, portion, share, heirship.
The antonym for ‘heritage’ is ‘whole’.
I shall fire off an email of protest to English Heritage at customers@english-heritage.org.uk

Thank God for people like Alec Forshaw.