Conservation, to the architect and public alike, is not a fad, fetter or curse: it is a necessity which should also be seen as a stimulating challenge.

SAVE Britain's Heritage was formed in 1975 - European Architectural Heritage Year - by a group of journalists, historians, architects and planners to campaign publicly for endangered historic buildings. Through press releases, lightening leaflets, reports, books and exhibitions SAVE has championed the cause of decaying country houses, redundant churches and chapels, disused mills and warehouses, blighted streets and neighbourhoods, cottages and town halls, railway stations, hospitals, military buildings and asylums.

From the start SAVE has always placed a special emphasis on the possibilities of alternative uses for historic buildings and, in a number of cases, prepared its own schemes for the reuse of threatened properties. On repeated occasions, SAVE has been instrumental in persuading owners of empty buildings to place them on the market or repair them. SAVE is also very active on the broader issues of preservation policy such as conservation areas and listing policy. In the first SAVE report in 1975 SAVE's approach to architectural heritage was summed up as follows: The visible link to the past that old buildings give is important both as a fascinating insight into history and as an expression of the relative permanence of civilised society.

For more information please visit the SAVE Website which features up to date news on case work and reports as well as the nations first online register of buildings at risk. which features up to date news on case work and reports as well as the nations first online register of buildings at risk.

Or contact

Adam Wilkinson - Secretary

Regine Jaszinski -

Buildings at Risk Officer
70 Cowcross Street

London

EC1M 6EJ

Tel: 020 7253 3500

Fax: 020 7253 3400

Email: save@btinternet.com