The Society's casework in 2000: Review of selected cases

Local planning authorities in England and Wales have been obliged to consul t the Ancient Monuments Society and the other national amenity societies on all applications for listed building consent involving demolition, either total or partial, since 1972. In recent years the number of part-demolition cases has settled at about 6,000 a year and those for complete demolition to about 250-300. The exact number of listed buildings threatened by applic ation for total demolition in 1999(the last full year at the time of writin g) was 210. (A full list of these cases is obtainable from the Society's of fice.) The cases discussed here include some of the most important in the y ear and also some that are typical. In choosing cases we are necessarily li mited by the availability of good quality reproductions. The drawings have been kindly supplied by the architects of the various schemes and the names of the practices are given in the text.