Buxton: Resilient Cultural Heritage & the Role of the Visitor Economy

This seminar and walking tour will look at how heritage-led regeneration has delivered the newly redeveloped and restored Crescent, Natural Baths and Pump Room in Buxton.

9.45am          Welcome, Sarah Rawlinson Head of Centre for Contemporary Hospitality and Tourism, University of Derby & Louise Thomas, Director, HTVF

 
10am             Introduction to Buxton and its heritage challenges and regeneration, Richard Tuffrey, Special Advisor, Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust and formerly Conservation Officer, High Peak Borough Council

10.30am        Cultural Tourism – Buxton’s big opportunity!James Berresford, Chair, Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust and formerly Chief Executive, VisitEngland

11am             Q&A followed by tea/coffee

11:30am        The challenge and scope for Cultural Heritage-led Regeneration – Historic England’s perspective, Louise Brennan, Regional Director Midlands, Historic England

12pm            The role of Historic Buildings and the Visitor Economy – the Developer’s perspective, Trevor Osborne, Chair, The Osborne Group and Director, Buxton Crescent Hotel and Thermal Spa Company

12:30pm        Q&A followed by lunch

1:30pm          An Introduction to Buxton Crescent and Thermal Spa, Trevor Osborne & Jonathan Dawson, General Manager, Buxton Crescent and Thermal Spa

2pm              Walk around the Crescent and Thermal Spa, the Devonshire Dome, Buxton Opera House and the Pump Room

3:30pm          Close

This event is being generously sponsored by High Peak Borough Council, the University of Derby, Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust and Buxton Crescent and Thermal Spa Hotel.

 

 

This event counts as 5 hours of CPD. Join the HTVF now and save money - see http://www.htvf.org/Join/ for details. 

 

 

Forthcoming events:

York: Planning for the future with heritage in mind

Thursday 27th June 2019 (please note new date!)

Friargate Meeting House, York YO1 9RL 


 
Hear about plans for the redevelopment of York Guildhall, the Castle Gateway quarter, Hungate and other major sites in this historic city. More details coming soon...

 

Bath: Managing Contemporary and Historic Design and Development

Autumn 2019, Bath (date to be confirmed)

In association with City of Bath World Heritage Site Advisory Board and Bath Preservation Trust, we are planning our next annual seminar-walking tour to look at how modern and historic developments are designed and managed, with reference to recent developments in this iconic city.

 

Writing Supplementary Planning Documents relating to the Historic Environment

Tuesday 12th November 2019, Kellogg College, Oxford

This seminar-workshop will look at best practice examples of how to prepare policies for historic environments, with hands-on opportunities to test successful strategies.  

 

 

Coming later this year!

 Autumn 2019 - Developing the Visitor Economy: Town Trails (locations and dates to be announced)

Autumn School 2019 - Place-making vs. Movement - 2 days of seminars and hands-on workshops on how to manage traffic in a historic county town centre (details coming soon)

Winter - Supporting Historic High Streets:  The Ingredients for Success in the 21st Century - Part 4, Kellogg College, Oxford

Winter - Neighbourhood Planning Review: Design and adding details that matter, Kellogg College, Oxford - looking the increased prominence in design and design coding in neighbourhood planning

Winter/ Spring - Understanding the Regeneration Potential of our Heritage Assets, Kellogg College, Oxford - exploring what makes heritage-led regeneration schemes viable, and how to create greater financial sustainability.

Places on all of our live events can be booked via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/historic-towns-amp-villages-forum-14604939912

Spatial planning is intended to determine what and how much development should be located where; yet a key part of the UK planning system encourages land owners and developers to propose specific sites for new development. Given the pressure on local authority resources, time constraints on determining planning applications, and the need for more housing development, place-making is not always at the top of the list of factors being considered.

• The significance of smaller settlements’ historical form, function and setting
• Whether the HELAA process makes spatial or ‘place’ planning more of a challenge
• Alternative ways of planning for change that relate to a place’s identity
• The type of criteria to consider and their relevance
• A live case study to debate and test factors that matter, and
• Case studies of how plan-making and neighbourhood planning can draw upon alternative evidence to influence outcomes.

 
Managing Contemporary and Historic Design and Development - Cambridge

This event will be useful to local authority officers and councillors with planning and design portfolios, conservation officers, developers, architects, urban designers and planners in private practice, town and parish councillors, and civic society members.  The benefits of attending this seminar are:

 Optional visit en route to the station (depending on daylight):

Pin-pointing what makes one settlement different to the next is about identifying common characteristics, but also the variations between them due to topography, natural features, boundaries, links to elsewhere, materials and building types, and more. Without this detailed appreciation of context, how can we ensure that future development does not dilute local distinctiveness?   

In this seminar, we will look beyond architectural pastiche and 'stick-on' architecture features to explore what makes one place different to another.  Finding ways to capture this distinctiveness and convey it to others is the key to sustaining a sense of place.

• Why local distinctiveness matters
• How developers view local character in drawing up proposals
• What makes local distinctiveness or the features that identify local character
• How to inform plans for change and influence new proposals 
• The mechanisms to capture local character in the design and planning process.