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Transhipment Warehouse 
Consultation event
Burleigh Pottery 
Emergency works, Hopwood Lane 
Emergency works, Causey Hall 
Cake cutting to celebrate start of emergency works, Causey Hall |
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ProjectsBuildings at Risk StudyWith funding from English Heritage, Heritage Works has just begun
the first phase of a project exploring options for buildings at
risk in Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside. Over the
next 6 months, we will be reviewing the 78 buildings listed on
English Heritage's Buildings at Risk Register in this area. Heritage
Works will contact conservation officers, planners and regeneration
officers in each of these local authority areas, to ascertain
the status of buildings at risk in their area and their strategies
for tackling them. This research will then be used to identify
up to five buildings which will be suitable for a detailed options
appraisal study. Whaley Bridge Transhipment WarehouseHeritage Works has been commissioned by British Waterways to undertake a feasibility study for the vacant Transhipment Warehouse and associated land at Whaley Bridge Canal Basin. On 23 April, Heritage Works hosted a consultation open day for those interested in the future of the Transhipment Warehouse. Throughout the afternoon and evening there was a steady stream of visitors to the vacant Market Street shop, ranging from councillors to canal enthusiasts to passers-by. More information Burleigh Pottery, Stoke-on-TrentHeritage Works is currently undertaking an options appraisal study of this last Victorian pottery still operating in the area. The studywill suggest ways in which the current business can use the buildings more efficiently, possibly alongside new uses. More information. Hopwood Lane Gateway, HalifaxHaving secured SRB funding and matching funds from Yorkshire Forward / Calderdale Council and Halifax Townscape Heritage Initiative, the Trust is now undertaking a £500,000 emergency works contract, which is planned for completion by mid June 2008. This is the start of a much larger regeneration project at the Hopwood Lane Gateway site, locally identified as a city 'grot spot'.
In conjunction with Calderdale College, Heritage Works has organised site visits for students studying for the ICA in Brickwork. This will give the students the opportunity to see a restoration project in progress.
Causey Hall, HalifaxThe emergency works on the Hall have now been completed. Heritage Works will now seek to identify potential tenants for a refurbished Hall, and explore the viability of a complete redevelopment of the building in the long-term.
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On 1st November 2007, Heritage Works, together with BDP, won the
award for best Restoration of a Georgian Building in an Urban Setting
in The
Georgian Group 2007 Architectural Awards. The judges commented: "The conservation strategy was exemplary: a light touch; retention of the maximum amount of original fabric and fittings; use of traditional materials and techniques. The depth of analysis and attention to detail are admirable: nail marks, for example, were meticulously analysed to inform the building of a new Welsh slate roof. Reference to early pictures allowed the fenestration to be replicated – only two original windows in the entire complex remained. Two missing storeys were reinstated using handmade bricks and twentieth century excrescences that obscured the original elevations were removed. Most remarkably, given the tightness of the site and the economic pressures, a large canal basin that had been filled in and used as a car park was excavated and refilled with water. All this happened in a relatively deprived part of Manchester. It could easily have been done badly, cheaply or not at all. The sheer scale and ambition of the work make it truly impressive." |
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