Preservation & Restoration Campaign

We have long campaigned to promote and preserve the historic character of the area, by encouraging the owners of the many Grade II listed Georgian houses and Edwardian buildings to restore their original architectural features. We also worked in partnership with Camden Council's Conservation and Urban Design team to produce a Shop Fronts Design Manual, which helped businesses avoid making inappropriate alterations to their premises.

There have been some notable examples of historic buildings being sensitively restored, including several winners of our annual Shop Front Awards. In 2011/12 we encouraged the owners and leaseholders of ground floor 'period' premises to consider undertaking the restoration of any missing, damaged or hidden historical architectural features, if and when they carried out any decoration or improvement works.

Follow the Flickr.com link below to view our collection of photos of listed buildings and other positive contributors to our area of benefit. We have approached English Heritage about the possibility of getting further historical buildings listed, but they have told us that they are only interested in listing buildings which may be under threat. We were very pleased with the extensions to the Bloomsbury Conservation Area, which brought most of our area of benefit into the 'protected' zone. We had lobbied the Council about this for several years.

You can find detailed descriptions of all local listed buildings on Camden Council's web site (link below). Just type in your chosen street name and all listed buildings in that street will be revealed, with brief details about their origins, any special architectural features and in most cases a recent photograph to help with identification.

You can also find information about conservation and listed buildings on the English Heritage web site (link below).

Additional Info:  

http://www.flickr.com/photos/macollections/sets/72157626064920935/
http://www.camden.gov.uk/listedbuildings
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk

Created On 05 November 2010