CONSERVATION CONFERENCE DISCUSSES MARKET STREET DEVELOPMENT
Conservation conference discusses Market Street development
TWO professional institutions recently joined forces to host a conference aimed at giving a balanced approach to conservation and development.
The one day conference was organised by the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Institute of Historic building Conservation.
Councillors and professionals together with district council officers attended the conference in the Ulster History Park.
Peter Hunter and Keith Gilmour, who are involved in the redevelopment of Market Street, following the August bomb, were also present.
They were joined by Paul Drury, of the Heritage Lottery Fund Townscape Initiative, Graham King, programme Director with the City of Westminster and Michael Counter, Deputy Director of the Built Heritage of the Environment Service.
The conference heard that conservation is more than preservation, it is the management of historic, built environment to retain the ambience and character of a locality.
Malcolm Lake, Press Officer with the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (NI), said "It has been a unique opportunity, as a consequence of the terrible event of August 15th, to look at what is happening here in August.
"It has brought together professionals and interested people to hear about the Omagh experience."
TWO professional institutions recently joined forces to host a conference aimed at giving a balanced approach to conservation and development.
The one day conference was organised by the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Institute of Historic building Conservation.
Councillors and professionals together with district council officers attended the conference in the Ulster History Park.
Peter Hunter and Keith Gilmour, who are involved in the redevelopment of Market Street, following the August bomb, were also present.
They were joined by Paul Drury, of the Heritage Lottery Fund Townscape Initiative, Graham King, programme Director with the City of Westminster and Michael Counter, Deputy Director of the Built Heritage of the Environment Service.
The conference heard that conservation is more than preservation, it is the management of historic, built environment to retain the ambience and character of a locality.
Malcolm Lake, Press Officer with the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (NI), said "It has been a unique opportunity, as a consequence of the terrible event of August 15th, to look at what is happening here in August.
"It has brought together professionals and interested people to hear about the Omagh experience."
Further Information
Publisher: ULSTER HERALD
Ref: UH/1254
Published Date: 06-May-99
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