Heritage Now Spring 2025
In the latest issue of Heritage Now (No 11, Spring 2025), Historic Buildings and Places director Liz Power reviews the society’s centenary year. As the society has appointed Sara Robertson as its new chair, an illuminating article asks her some searching questions about her vision for the charity (and asks her about the five buildings that have played a particular part in her career so far).
As the recent £7.5 million restoration of Newhaven Fort, a scheduled ancient monument, nears completion, Neil Harrison, head of commercial development at Wave Active, which operates Newhaven Fort, and Alan Corbett, managing director of Pilbeam Construction, explain the process of conserving an under-regarded ‘hidden heritage gem’ in East Sussex. Pat Jones- Jenkins of the Grade II* listed Ruppera Castle Preservation Trust (formed in 1997) explains the trust’s work aimed at reversing the decay of the present ruins, stemming from a significant decline of the estate in the 1930s, and a tortuous planning history of failed developer conversion plans in the 1990s and 2000s.
This article originally appeared in the Institute of Historic Building Conservation’s (IHBC’s) Context 184, published in June 2025. It was written by Bob Kindred MBE.
--Institute of Historic Building Conservation
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