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Dale Farm travellers apply for English Heritage protection status... for scaffolding

28.09.11
Residents of the UK's largest illegal travellers' site have applied to English Heritage to gain official protection status for the scaffolding gateway at the entrance to the site... more

Post's passport to protection

08.07.11
A lamp post that appeared in the 1949 Ealing comedy A Passport to Pimlico has been listed by English Heritage... more

English Heritage blocks plans of UBS to develop Broadgate HQ

03.06.11
English Heritage dealt a blow to plans for investment bank UBS' new £340 million headquarters at Broadgate today after recommending the listing of the two buildings on the site.... more

England's heritage open to the masses in new online database

23.05.11
Details of England's entire national heritage - from protected shipwrecks to listed lamp-posts will be made easily available to the public for the first time with a new online database ... more

Storm over 'hideous' Cutty Sark tower

21.04.11
Plans to build a 32-foot glass and steel tower beside the historic Cutty Sark have been branded 'hideous' and 'visually intrusive'... more

UBS Broadgate hopes under threat from English Heritage

08.04.11
A cloud no bigger than a man's hand hangs over Broadgate, casting a shadow on plans drawn up by British Land to build a £750 million HQ for UBS on the 16-block office complex adjacent Liverpool Street Station... more

Archway Bridge net to halt suicides

03.12.10
Campaigners demand that Archway Bridge be fitted with a safety net to prevent suicides... more

London’s historic buildings face new threat from spending cuts

30.09.10
Up to 2,000 of London’s historic buildings have been saved from destruction since 1991 — but the recession threatens to create a surge of new properties at risk... more

Kensington Palace ‘garden shed’ rejected

13.07.10
Plans for a new visitors’ entrance to Kensington Palace are rejected by councillors... more

Council in threat to buy London blaze building

15.04.10
The owners of an 18th century house wrecked by fire are threatened with a compulsory purchase order unless they repair it... more

Timely Rolls of honour

26.03.10
Motoring pioneer Charles Rolls, known as the Lewis Hamilton of his time, was this week remembered with a Blue Plaque. David Williams finds what earned him the tribute... more

Nine schools listed in salute to pioneers of state education

25.01.10
Victorian drive to bring education to the masses is remembered today as nine of the capital’s historic schools become listed buildings... more

Stanley Holloway gets blue plaque

06.10.09
My Fair Lady star Stanley Holloway has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in Manor Park... more

43-storey tower will rise on the South Bank

17.09.09
43-storey tower proposed for the South Bank that was condemned as 'an act of architectural vandalism' has been approved by a High Court judge... more

Kensington makeover falls foul of heritage police

24.07.09
Radical proposals to revamp the former Commonwealth Institute building off Kensington High Street are set to be vetoed by English Heritage... more

Saudi royals win approval for £50m ‘super-home’ in Belgravia

01.06.09
Saudi royals are planning a hi-tech "super-home" worth up to £50million by knocking together three houses in Belgravia... more

£1m to repair seven historic churches and synagogues

13.05.09
Seven places of worship in London have been given grants totalling just over £1 million for restoration work... more

Sister act may be dull but it doesn't half matter to P&O

24.04.09
Planning inquiries are not for those with a low boredom threshold. That was evident from the sparse attendance at a hearing at the Oasis community learning centre in Lambeth to hear evidence for and against the building of three rather tall towers adjacent to Waterloo station... more

Towers 'will harm Big Ben heritage'

16.04.09
The government's conservation watchdog has launched a public attack on a proposed scheme for Waterloo station known as the "Three Ugly Sisters"... more

Lack of eastern promise at Dockmaster's House

18.02.09
Event organisers might be interested to know that private dining rooms and bars occupy parts of the three floors of Dockmaster's House.... more

Commonwealth Institute plan hits snag over offices

16.01.09
A plan to rescue the former Commonwealth Institute building has been thrown into confusion after English Heritage called for the entire site to be preserved... more

Westminster takes dim view of tower across river

30.09.08
A legal challenge has been launched against a planned tower which objectors claim would ruin historic views from St James's Park... more

Doon Street tower gets the go-ahead

20.08.08
The Government has rejected the advice of its planning inspector and heritage experts to give the go-ahead to a 43-storey residential tower on the South Bank next to Waterloo bridge... more

Blears puts Smithfield development in limbo

07.08.08
The future of Smithfield Market was back in limbo after a scheme for its redevelopment was thrown out... more

A shameful waste of assets

08.07.08
These days most people feel guilty if they throw away a beer bottle rather than recycle it. So it seems odd that, for many, the sight of an old building being crunched up for landfill does not elicit the slightest twinge... more

Holland Park school design 'is like a slab block'

23.06.08
Plans to build Britain's most expensive state school in one of the country's wealthiest residential areas were blasted by English Heritage... more

£1m in grants to restore city's historic churches

07.03.08
Almost £1 million has been given to London's historic churches this year to fund urgent repair work... more

New 'quiet stage' set to revive Kenwood concerts

06.08.07
Open-air concerts at Kenwood House, cancelled this year after complaints over noise, could return.... more

A Knight to remember

02.04.07
Set in the idyllic grounds of three of England's top stately homes, this year's English Heritage Picnic Concerts concerts feature a stellar line-up.... more


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