2006 Buildings at Risk list released (UK)

English Heritage has released its annual Buildings at Risk Register listing the nation’s most vulnerable Grade l and Grade ll* properties and Scheduled Ancient Monuments most urgently in need attention and renovation. The list is a working tool by which the degree of degeneration of a building can be assessed and the necessary resources required to bring it back into good repair and beneficial use, established. It also serves to prioritise action taken by English Heritage, building preservation trusts and funding bodies, to secure the future of some of the most outstanding and irreplaceable parts of the nation’s built heritage. The 2006 edition was launched at the new Habitat store on Regent Street, itself a former Building at Risk which has seen its future secured thanks to a programme of support called “Constructive Conservation” asking people to think of more imaginative ways of rescuing threatened buildings and to seek help from English Heritage as early as possible.