🚨"The approved demolition of the B-listed Hillhead Baptist Church is more than the loss of a building. It is a moment that forces Glasgow to confront a challenging question: what do our cities truly value?" Important piece in The Herald www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2629...

When a church falls silent Glasgow struggles to save its historic gems

Glasgow’s decision to demolish the B-listed Hillhead Baptist Church to make way for flats becomes a test of what the city values, Professor…

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🏊‍♂️Driven by passionate local communities and visionary entrepreneurs, historic lidos across the UK are being restored into vibrant, self-sustaining pools, spas and community hubs🌊🤿 Read our deep dive into the UK's revived swimming spots➡️ bit.ly/4pYmcvc

Historic Lidos: A deep dive into the UK's restored swimming spots

SAVE talks with the communities across the UK that have brought their historic pools back into use.

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📢 Campaign Spotlight: Save Braughing Railway Bridge! 🚂 Campaigners in Hertfordshire are rallying to save the historic Braughing railway bridge from being infilled with concrete. Ensure repair options are fully explored by signing their petition 🔽 www.change.org/p/save-bridg...

✍️We've written to Housing Secretary Angela Rayner asking her to prioritise reuse over demolition to create thousands of homes and jobs. Historic England estimate 670k homes could be created by repurposing historic buildings. Let's unlock the potential of England’s housing stock

💭"Consensus is growing" SAVE director Henrietta Billings is quoted in Building News about a new cross-party House of Commons report on heritage and housing. 📝The report suggests ‘Reuse first’ should be the guiding principle when we're creating new homes. www.building.co.uk/cutting-red-...

Cutting red tape on heritage buildings could help unlock 670,000 homes, MPs tell government

Cross-party select committee calls for new heritage-to-housing scheme as current approach is branded 'deeply complacent'

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💡 Did you know? St James’s square is the former residence of three prime ministers, aristocrats and Nancy Astor, Britain's first woman MP. 🔍Explore St James's, the West End and Clubland with us on 18 July📍 Book your spot: t.co/CHEgNMzNna

🚨Leading conservation experts and MSPs sign an open letter in today's @heraldscotland. The letter organised by SAVE, urges Deputy First Minister to call in highly controversial plans for the demolition of the B-listed Hillhead Baptist Church in Glasgow. www.savebritainsheritage.org/news/nationa...

National organisations urge Scottish minister to halt demolition plans for Glaswegian church - SAVE Britain's Heritage

Leading conservation experts and MSPs have signed an open letter, published today in The Herald urging the Deputy First Minister to call in highly controversial plans for the demolition of the categor...

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🆕Breaking: SAVE welcomes a groundbreaking report published by MPs today calling on the government to adopt a clear national reuse-first policy to harness the potential of the UK’s historic buildings to meet housing targets. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

How reviving old buildings could help UK solve housing crisis

A “heritage-to-housing” scheme as well as tax incentives, could be used to help bring old buildings back into use

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💥In sad news, we've received an update that Sheringham's charming 'Streamline Moderne' bus shelter was demolished today. We understand it will be replaced with a modern equivalent. Locals ran a strong campaign to try save the much loved 1950's shelter www.edp24.co.uk/news/2627296...

It's gone! Bus shelter that prompted huge protests is demolished

Locals gathered for one final protest to save a much-loved 1950s Sheringham bus shelter as demolition work is set to begin today.

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📢Statement re. recent fire at the category B-listed French Renaissance-style former Palace Hotel at 109-111 Princes Street, Edinburgh.

🚨Sad to see yet another devastating fire rip through a Scottish listed building, the Louvre-inspired former Palace Hotel aka Debenhams. A 150-yr history and significant interiors including Gladstone Memorial Library & rare top-lit cast-iron galleried saloon. We hope more has survived than feared🤞

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The roof and top floors of the disused B-listed building have been destroyed 👉 www.heraldscotland.com/news...

📚🏛️"I could cry, it’s only bricks and mortar but it's more than that [to me]." Truly heart-warming story from Stoke. The abandoned Stoke library, which spent several years on SAVE's Buildings at Risk register, has been restored by locals. www.stokesentinel.co.uk/whats-on/lec...

IT lecturer spends £225k transforming old Stoke Library into wedding venue

Tariq Hussain’s renovation project was featured on Channel 4

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🌟King Melchior arrived early this year - a wonderful story of community spirit www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘Like a miracle’: hidden gold saves Lancashire church from closure

Anonymous gift of nine Britannia coins worth nearly £30,000 was discovered in a bag beneath the altar

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🙏to all who joined us in person and online for the launch of SAVE's 2026 Buildings at Risk list (BaR) + our volunteers. It was an inspiring night! Great to hear from Architectural Thread about the grit & creativity behind 2 of their reuse projects #Redruth & #Wellington More here: bit.ly/44ebab1

SAVE adds record number of buildings to national risk list - SAVE Britain's Heritage

More than 200 remarkable buildings added to SAVE’s Buildings at Risk register, from pubs and pits to town halls and theatres – all with potential for new life

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Thornton Manor, Merseyside, today added to the Buildings at Risk Register @savetoreuse.bsky.social. Fire in February 2022 requiring £20m restoration. Grade II* rebuilt in Jaocbean style for 1st Lord Leverhulme of Unilever from 1896. www.savebritainsheritage.org/buildings-at... thorntonmanor.co.uk

📢BREAKING: Today we've added a record number of buildings to our Buildings at Risk list. From pubs and pits to town halls and theatres – all with potential for new life♻️ Browse the collection: www.savebritainsheritage.org/buildings-at...

"Popham said it was a "no-brainer" to add the site to the list, citing its "stand-out architecture" and "importance to the local community". SAVE's Amy Popham, explains to @bbcnews.bsky.social why the National Glass Centre was added to our 2026 at risk list. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sunderland National Glass Centre added to at risk register

The demolition-threatened Sunderland site is a new addition to the SAVE Britain's Heritage list.

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✨"The register offers both hope and concern for endangered buildings. In the past, inclusion on the list has helped to prompt action: the Buttermarket in Redruth in Cornwall, formerly at risk, has been rescued by a community-led and award-winning renewal. " ♻️ observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Historic buildings in need of rescue... from way back in ...

The mounting challenges of heritage preservation are clear, as two millennium structures join the list of those in danger

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Super example of reuse♻️ A WWI first aid station, soup kitchen, a 1930s guesthouse, nurses' quarters, a dance school, accommodation for tuberculosis patients and a girls' training institute. 🏘️Then abandoned and now affordable housing! www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/cr...

Eyesore building in town centre welcomes residents for first time in 50 years

The historic building has been saved by being transformed into four modern one-bedroom flats for affordable rent

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‼️Another loss to Glasgow’s heritage The 1883 Hillhead Baptist Church is set is to be demolished. At a hearing today councillor votes were split (3 for / 3 against), but the Chair (SNP) cast their vote in favour of the developer. 📝SAVE formally objected twice to demolition.

Sad news about the iconic David Hockney who died today aged 88. Zoe Silver, co-director of Salts Mill, one of SAVE’s most significant campaigns of the 1980s, and home to the largest collection of Hockney’s work, remembered the artist as “a generous soul who loved joy.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

David Hockney: Tributes paid to a 'giant' and 'true icon' of British art

Hockney, one of the UK's most important and influential artists, has died at the age of 88.

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✨Join the conversation: 'Belonging in Built Spaces: Reimagining Buildings for Community' - curator's pick at #LFA26. We’ve brought together community organisers, architects + heritage funders to explore what belonging means 🤝🏛️ 📆17 June 📍London Tickets: bit.ly/3QycWAv

LFA|Belonging in Built Spaces: Reimagining Buildings for Community - SAVE Britain's Heritage

As part of the 2026 London Festival of Architecture theme, Belonging, SAVE Britain’s Heritage hosts a discussion with The Kings Foundation, Nudge Community Builders and Harrison Stringfellow Architect...

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Thanks to everyone who came on our 2 London Underground design tours this w/e - learning about the Piccadilly & Jubilee line stations Huge👏 to our expert guide Mike Ashworth. Is there any Q he can't answer?! Our Tube tours always sell fast. Find out first: sign up for our bulletin bit.ly/4ckOvyC

Join SAVE this Sunday 7 June for a guided tour of the Jubilee Line Extension, exploring the award-winning stations that transformed the Underground. Part of #LFA26 📍 Discover the stories, design +heritage beneath London’s streets. 🎟️ Last few tickets: www.savebritainsheritage.org/events/explo...

🆘Demolition Alert! Historic Victorian pub in Kensal Green. SAVE is urging Brent Council to halt plans to demolish the pub - beside one of London's 'Magnificent Seven cemeteries' - to build a 6-storey block. Have your say, write to Brent here: pa.brent.gov.uk/online-appli...

Since his talk at our 50th anniversary lecture, Kevin McCloud has been following up on his commitment to heritage - we're really looking forward to watching his new series: 'Listed Britain' 🇬🇧📺 Starting tonight on @channel4tv.bsky.social www.channel4.com/programmes/k...

Kevin McCloud's Listed Britain

Kevin McCloud uncovers the stories behind the buildings Britain has chosen to protect

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🚨BREAKING NEWS SAVE + Friends of Friendless Churches nominate Victorian church for the @WorldMonuments watch-list👀 Find out why👉 www.savebritainsheritage.org/news/heritag...

Heritage groups nominate monumental Victorian church for global at-risk list - SAVE Britain's Heritage

SAVE Britain’s Heritage and the Friends of Friendless Churches have jointly submitted a nomination of the derelict grade II*-listed Church of St John the Evangelist in rural Lancashire for inclusion o...

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🎡May Building of the Month: Strutt’s North Mill, Belper in Derbyshire To celebrate #NationalMillsWeekend we're spotlighting the grade I-listed North Mill, recognised as one of the world’s earliest iron-framed “fireproof” buildings 🔥 www.savebritainsheritage.org/news/buildin...

Building of the Month May 2026: Strutt's North Mill, Belper, - SAVE Britain's Heritage

Since the Strutt’s North Mill Museum closed in 2022, the grand, grade I listed mill of the same name has been left vacant and deteriorating. The building was added to SAVE’s Buildings at Risk register...

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🐎If these are the stables, how big must the house be?! SAVE visits Wentworth Woodhouse to hear about the latest plans to future-proof one of England's greatest stately homes🏛️ www.savebritainsheritage.org/news/if-thes...

If these are the stables, how big must the house be?! - SAVE Britain's Heritage

SAVE visits Wentworth Woodhouse to hear about the latest plans to future-proof one of England's greatest stately homes. SAVE was delighted to be back at Wentworth Woodhouse recently to see all the lat...

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NEWS / Barlaston Hall has new owners! Congrats to Mo & Ann Chaudry who've promised to open the grounds to the public. Previous owners include SAVE. We bought it for £1 when it was a decaying shell, sued the Coal Board over subsidence & spent the compensation on repairs🌟 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Entrepreneur buys Barlaston Hall, once part of Wedgwood estate

Mo Chaudry buys Barlaston Hall, once part of the Wedgwood pottery firm's estate.

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