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The best-selling Old House Handbook has now been completely updated to reflect current best practices and the latest thinking on the techniques and materials used to care for old buildings. 

Morwenna is Head of Historic Buildings Climate Change Adaptation at Historic England and has previously worked for organisations including the National Trust and Churches Conservation Trust. 

Following legal action by the SPAB, we’re delighted to announce that the High Court has now ruled that Broxtowe Council acted unlawfully in granting listed building consent without notifying us and listed building consent has been quashed.   

This month (21-24 June), join us to repair historic mining buildings at Craig Gwadlus Country Park. / Hoffem eich gwahodd i ymuno gyda ni ar gyfer Gweithgor Sgiliau Adeiladu Treftadaeth ym Mharc Gwledig Coetir Craig Gwladus, Mehefin 21-24.  

Following a successful legal challenge by the SPAB, Broxtowe Council has agreed that listed building consent for an insensitive redevelopment scheme to Willoughby Almshouses was invalid. We now await final confirmation from the courts that this unlawful listed building consent has been withdrawn. 

First-year Interior Design students have been tasked with reimagining parts of 37 Spital Square, incorporating SPAB’s ethos and history into their designs.  

The SPAB has a vacancy for a voluntary trustee. We are keen to hear from a SPAB member or supporter who could bring fresh skills and experience to the Board. Particularly welcome would be interest from candidates at an early point in their career or who feel they can offer something different in terms of their background or experience.

Equally relevant to the vacancy could be specialist skills in fields such as marketing or fundraising, or a connection with an area where the SPAB is keen to increase its influence, beyond the South East of England. 

Broxtowe Council looks set to agree damaging plans to redevelop the Grade II* listed Willoughby Almshouses in Nottinghamshire, in a move that will see their unique character destroyed. 

We’re delighted to welcome an enthusiastic new group of conservation professionals, who will begin their training programmes in March. 

A 16th-century cottage we helped to save has won an award from the Nottinghamshire Buildings Preservation Trust.  

In 2019 we held a Working Party to carry out urgent repairs to Auld Cottage, a modest timber-framed building in Norwell, Nottinghamshire. Auld Cottage had been unoccupied since the 1960s, and locals including SPAB Scholar (1997) Jane Holt and the Norwell Parish Heritage Group were deeply concerned about its rapidly deteriorating condition.