City Hall in London, the brutalist Derby Assembly Rooms and Swindon s Oasis Leisure Centre are among the UK s top 10 buildings under threat according to architectural campaigning charity Twentieth Century Society.
Other buildings at risk include the Bull Yard shopping precinct in Birmingham, the listed Halls of Residence at the University of Hull and the Cressingham Gardens housing estate in London.
Above: the Derby Assembly Rooms features in the Top 10 Buildings at Risk List. Top image: Foster + Partners City Hall is also on the list
The list, which is released every two years aims to illuminate how numerous buildings of various architectural styles are currently under threat in the UK.
London mayoral election: Green candidate Sian Berry unveils vision for ‘repair centres’ on every high street to cut waste Sophia Sleigh
The Green mayoral candidate today unveiled her vision for the capital which includes “repair centres” on every high street to help cut landfill waste.
Sian Berry is launching her manifesto this morning at Cressingham Gardens, in Lambeth, a council estate at threat of demolition that her party wants to protect.
Among her pledges, the Green Party co-leader wants to publish a waste reduction strategy that would boost the reuse and repair of goods.
It includes a new fund that would help councils and local enterprises turn empty shops and buildings into “repair centres” on every high street where they could upcycle everything from furniture and electricals to clothes.
Lambeth Council has loaned a further £5.5 million to its wholly-owned house building company, added to £5 million loaned last year. It comes as a progress report on Homes for Lambeth’s business plan for 2020-23, approved by cabinet on March 15, stated a lack of resident support was a “likely” risk to its regeneration programme. The council’s controversial programme, run by HfL, is focused on six estates, including Westbury, Knights Walk, South Lambeth, Central Hill, Cressingham Gardens, and Fenwick. The loaned money is expected to be paid back out of “project surpluses”, profit made from the new homes. But the Green opposition, who are against the demolition of the estates, have warned it is a risky strategy and HfL could end up like Croydon’s failing housing company Brick by Brick.
An extra £1.5 million is set to be added to the council tax support scheme for 2022/23, which is expected to reduce bills for 7,000 eligible households “with most of those seeing their bill reduced to nil”. At the council meeting the leader of the opposition, Green Cllr Jonathan Bartley, reiterated his concerns that the added support would not come into effect until 2022/23 and that the council plans to raise funds through enforcement. Cllr Andy Wilson, cabinet member for finance and performance, previously said there is a precedent for having to go through a long consultation before the extra support is introduced. But he said between now and the outcome of the consultation the council is putting forward funding to “essentially create the same amount of relief for residents as they would receive under the new council tax support scheme”.