Author(s)

Everard, A.J. and Pickard, R.D.

Abstract

In Europe and the USA there is a growing awareness of the wider benefits of supporting the built heritage directly through the public purse. This paper concentrates on an aspect of research conducted in recent years in the United Kingdom regarding the dynamic benefits of conservation. In the findings of the joint study of the Department of National Heritage, English Heritage and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ( The Value of Conservation: 1996) the absence of case studies to provide evidence of the benefits of' pump-priming' historic areas was recognised and the need to identify the benefits of such action was highlighted. This has further

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