St Peters-Section 12 Appendices - Historic Scotland

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CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT - VOLUME 1: ST PETER’S SEMINARY FEBRUARY 2008 321 Final Issue
Avanti Architects Response/Actions
Record synopsis of Charles Cooper’s feedback in Appendix.
None further to those noted in response to other feedback.
St Peter’s Building Preservation Trust
Feedback
Warmly welcomes reports’ fi ndings and acknowledges comprehensive
nature of the work undertaken. Nothing further to add to content of the
document, but wish to clarify how we might move forward from this work.
The report’s fi ndings regarding the current proposals (Option 4 Stabilised
Structure) allow Argyll and Bute Council to negatively determine the
current planning application.
The Trust would then support implementation of Option 1 – the
Consolidated Exhibit.
This would allow structure to be used for temporary activities to raise
funding for investigating re-sue option. To facilitate this Historic Scotland
should take the seminary complex into statutory care for the medium term.
St Peters Building Preservation Trust would support Historic Scotland in
this scenario providing assistance in marketing and investigating re-use
options.
The report together with The Lighthouse Exhibition has created a defi nite
window of opportunity that must be harnessed.
A more radical option to progress regeneration would be for the St Peter’s
Building Preservation Trust to take ownership of the complex provided that
considerable funding and support were available.
Believes that marketing of the buildings should coincide with the current
window of opportunity resulting from the publication of the report and the
current GKC Exhibition, with re-use being the ultimate objective arising
from the Conservation Assessment.
Believes that current context provides unprecedented opportunity to
investigate realistic and long term future for St Peter’s, through increased
awareness of GKC’s work and funding mechanisms offered by World
Monuments Fund recognition.
Key to this will be implementation of Option 1, securing the buildings while
allowing them to be used as a viable marketing tool and mechanism to
raise funding through temporary events.
Urges all parties to keep sight of primary objective of the Conservation
Assessment, namely the conservation of the A listed structures and their
retention for the benefi t of future generations.
Urge appropriate parties to act promptly to determine the current planning