Warning on heritage
PA Wellington New Zealand needs strong and effective legislation to save its heritage, a visiting ■ academic has said in Wellington. A consultant in urban con-j seryation at Bath University, i England. Mr Roy Woods,] told a building conservation! symposium that legislation i was “only tickling the prob-1 lem of urban conservation.” Some of the urban areas I he had seen in New Zealand'
'were “visually and architecturally a nightmare,” Mr Woods said. He told 135. delegate to the “New lives for old build-! ings” symposium about the strong English legislation j protecting historic buildings! and gave examples of how many buildings and areas! had been saved because of: this legislation. j The symposium was or-| ganised by the Historic' Places Trust and Victoria; University of Wellington. I
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Press, 16 April 1980, Page 5
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