Court Jester becomes King 👑 Last year, Alan Carr voiced his support for SAVE and our mission to protect historic buildings🏰 We're eager to see how his castle restoration unfolds and are on hand for any heritage advice – let us know Alan😉 www.scotsman.com/news/alan-ca...

🍻SAVE has written to Greenwich Council to ask them to halt the total demolition of the locally-listed, 184 year-old Anglesea Arms pub. A Developer has submitted plans to build 7 flats. You can object here➡️ planning.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/online-appli...

🧵Reely good news from Derbyshire Constructed in 1803, the Grade- I listed Belper Mills stand among the world’s earliest iron-framed structures. The mill has been on our Buildings at Risk register for several years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

👣Walk past a neglected building that makes you sigh every time? Do you imagine it alive again – as housing, a performance space or maybe a hub for your community? 📢SAVE’s 2026 Buildings at Risk register is open for entries. Nominate a building here➡️ www.savebritainsheritage.org/buildings-at...

🚨Breaking news: Network Rail's plans for Liverpool St station have been approved by City of London councillors by 19 votes to 3. See our statement below.

⏳This afternoon the City of London will decide on the future of Liverpool Street station. We’ve written to all councillors involved in the decision, urging them to defer the heavy-handed plans and consider a light-touch solution instead✍ Find out more: bit.ly/4a9yGtF

For 35 years, our friends at @c20society.bsky.social and Historic England have recommended listing the buildings on six separate occasions - advice declined by successive governments. Today’s decision brings one of the UK’s longest-running architectural heritage battles to an end 👏

🚨Record response to our campaign for Liverpool Street station. 🙏Thank you to all that have objected so far. Today is the last day to have your say www.building.co.uk/news/record-...

🗞️Breaking! SAVE submits JMP alternative vision for Liverpool Street Station to the City of London. 💬SAVE's director, Henrietta Billings said: "This is a signal of our intent and our belief in this alternative vision." Find out more @news.architectsjournal.co.uk bit.ly/4byRALw

✨We've rallied more than a dozen leading figures in the arts, heritage, urbanism and sustainability for a joint letter to The Times urging the City of London to pause the planning process at Liverpool Street Station: www.savebritainsheritage.org/news/big-nam...

Another notable voice gets behind our campaign 💪 www.building.co.uk/news/former-...

✨Our Director Henrietta Billings, has written a thoughtful piece for @thegentleauthor.bsky.social on plans for Liverpool St Station, showing how we can protect the Victorian heritage alongside essential accessibility upgrades. Read here➡️https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/01/30/liverpool-st-station/

'Decade of chaos' The London Standard reports on plans for Liverpool Street station. ⚠️Platforms 1 and 2 closed for two years, or longer ⚠️Greater overcrowding for Overground passengers at rush hour ⚠️Changes to entrances and routes www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

⁉️Why indeed!? Great contribution to the debate on reuse. Britain's towns and cities are full of interesting, vacant buildings rich in history and character❤️‍🩹 Let's find new purpose for these historic spaces and breathe life back into our communities 🔁

🛍️The Grade 1 listed Wool Exchange in Bradford, yours for only half a million £££ www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2578644...

'Network Rail should pay heed to John McAslan’s light-touch Liverpool Street station redevelopment plan' - 🎯We couldn't agree more @bdonline.bsky.social www.bdonline.co.uk/opinion/netw...

The battle over ‘mad’ plans to redevelop Liverpool Street station🚂 👏Thanks @telegraph.co.uk for highlighting our meeting this week on the future of Liverpool Street Station. 📢"The City of London deserves better than this current scheme" - Griff Rhys Jones. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

🎤What can you do to stop Network Rail's plans for years of disruption at Liverpool Street Station? You can object! 👏Well said, Griff Rhys Jones! There's still time to make your voice heard ✍️ 🔎There is an alternative! Read more on our website: bit.ly/45Zb0p1 #LiverpoolStreetStation

🧐We know a thing or two about saving country houses. 📺Lovely to see one our former campaigns Petworth House featured on the show from @channel4tv.bsky.social www.channel4.com/programmes/s...

🚨BREAKING NEWS: Following public pressure, Canterbury City Council has confirmed that no further historic lampposts will be removed while options are reviewed. More here: t.co/YF2EK8UFUl

From Glasgow to Plymouth, Yorkshire to E Anglia, we've spent our 50th year travelling the country, collaborating with brilliant local groups & celebrating remarkable buildings🏛️ We've had a blast. We hope you have too. Here's to the next 50!🙂 #buildings #history #architecture #heritage #SAVEtoreuse

⚽Great save! 🌾🏡 Neglected rural buildings in Pembrokeshire, once the coach houses and stables of a grand estate, are finally getting a second life. The buildings, two of which are grade II listed, will be sensitively restored as new homes. pembrokeshire-herald.com/128423/histo...

👏SAVE welcomes listing of Glasgow's HMP Barlinnie at Category A, the highest status for Scottish listed buildings. 📋We backed local MSP Paul Sweeney's bid for the Victorian landmark, now recognised as one of the "country’s most significant structures". www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...

🚂SAVE first flagged Gosport Station as an risk in our 1979 publication 'Off the Rails'. This grade II*-listed former station was converted into housing in an award-winning scheme. ➡️Read our latest piece on what’s next for our railway heritage bit.ly/4lxYlyu

BREAKING: A fresh approach to upgrading Liverpool St Stn unveiled today. We welcome John McAslan + Partners ‘valuable contribution’ to debate on changes at UK’s busiest station. It shows how upgrades could be achieved without disruption to passengers. Learn more👉 bit.ly/4lxYlyu

⏰ Only a week to go until our 50th anniversary lecture at the V&A with Kevin McCloud. All in-person tickets are now SOLD OUT but you can still attend via live-stream online. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-sav...

GOOD NEWS // One of the most memorable & theatrical spaces on the #Tube has been saved! We’re delighted #Southwark Station has been nationally recognised with grade II listing by Historic England for its architectural & historic importance😍 👉https://bit.ly/43lrAyo #architecture #design #stations

🎟️JOIN US ONLINE! In-person tickets for Kevin’s lecture have sold out – but you can still book to watch online: https://bit.ly/483JMzN If you’re longing to come in person, just add yourself to the waiting list!

📽️Building a Movement — a new film marking 50 years of SAVE. The full film is live on our website! Heritage, campaigning & reuse shaping towns & cities 🌱🏛️🔄 👉 Watch for free: https://bit.ly/46ssJGb #heritage #historicbuildings #filmpremiere #SAVEBritainsHeritage #SAVEat50

SAVE’s new ACT NOW! Toolkit is a free step-by-step guide to help anyone campaign for threatened historic buildings — drawing on 50 years of SAVE’s experience. 💪 Practical, proven, and made for everyone who believes heritage matters. 🔗View now: https://bit.ly/3IvIjrB

Thanks very much Mathew!!

🙌 Grand Designs’ Kevin_McCloud will deliver SAVE’s 50th anniversary lecture, Reinventing Buildings: A Manifesto for the Imagination, at the V&A on 25 Nov. 🗣️ He’ll call for radical change in how we value and protect the places people love. 🎟️Book now: bit.ly/483JMzN

🗞️The proposed redevelopment of Liverpool Street station is "a huge and unnecessary waste of resources" and is "likely to be redundant on completion". Look out for SAVE and Simon Sturgis interviewed on BBC TV News this evening. Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

👏 Bravo to all the teams shortlisted for @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Retrofit & Reuse Awards inc Hugh Broughton Architects' Sheerness Dockyard Church (once a SAVE case, now workspace), Feix & Merlin's Walworth Town Hall and BDP's Egyptian Room, Oldham www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aj-retr...

We had a fantastic time (ahem) in Liverpool, exploring some of the city's best buildings & hearing about #SAVEcampaigns over the last 50yrs, from the Lyceum to Albert Dock and the Welsh Streets Thx to everyone who joined us- and 👏 to our expert guide Jonathan Brown #SAVEis50 #heritage #liverpool

What a great splash in today’s @thetimes.com by @davidbyers26.bsky.social celebrating the importance of SAVE’s work safeguarding historic buildings - from castles to cotton mills, dept stores to stations - for future generations ♻️ #SAVEcampaigns #SAVE50 #reuse 🏫 www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

‼️EVENT UPDATE: Unfortunately this event has been postponed due to the very hot weather. A new date will be announced very soon. Thank you for your understanding. SAVE & SHBT

Loved Simon Jenkins’s piece in today's #CountryLife on our 50 years! 🙌 Join us in #Liverpool to see some of the stars of the article – from the #Bealtes’ childhood streets to the #AlbertDock, and other bold SAVE campaigns. 🔗 bit.ly/43NYQin BOOK HERE 📸 Image of article in Country Life, 9 July 2025.

‼️Today is the last chance to object to plans for a 19-storey tower over Liverpool St Stn, destroying much of the buiding, casting its light-filled concourse into shadow & harming the historic streetscape. All in an area of the City designated inappropriate for towers 😕 #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

‘Buildings that are left derelict or vacant for a number of years –as Medlock Mill had been– are more vulnerable to tragic instances’ SAVE conservation ofcr Lydia Franklin talks to @itvnews.bsky.social abt urgency of bringing historic bdgs back to life Sign up for our news bulletin👉 bit.ly/4kaRFqC

🎉 SAVE is 50! We’re celebrating one of our greatest achievements — a resource that has helped rescue 100s of buildings: the Buildings at Risk register: shorturl.at/XmwOy 🚨 50 buildings added today! 🎟️ Join us tonight in London for the launch: shorturl.at/yXoD3

🗞️"It is hard to appreciate now, but SAVE’s early activities fundamentally transformed the perception of heritage, & expanded the scope of what was deemed worth keeping" 🎂SAVE's 50th celebrated in the ‪@theguardian.com‬ ‪@ollywainwright.bsky.social‬ Read the story: shorturl.at/8gnse

🎉 SAVE is 50! From fragile stately homes to vibrant public places — like Wentworth Woodhouse — SAVE has spent 50 years turning risk into opportunity. Be part of what comes next. 🔗 shorturl.at/shortener.php #SAVE50 #SupportSAVE

Join us on Wednesday 25th June for the launch of this year’s Buildings at Risk register🏚️🥳 🗣️Hear from Liz Fuller, our Buildings at Risk officer & @ArchHFund 's Matthew Mckeague 🏛️ + see our new 50th anniversary film 🎬 + drinks 🍷 🎟️Book now: www.savebritainsheritage.org/events/save-...

🤔Where are the places you feel you have 'emotional ownership'? Maybe the biggest landmark in town - or a humbler place you pass every day?🏤🏨 Thx @SiHenley & @thegentleauthor for such a stimulating @LFArchitecture convo on 'embodied memory'💡 #belonging #heritage #SAVEis50

BREAKING NEWS // Massive congratulations to our partners #NudgeCommunityBuilders in Plymouth 🤩They've won £10k Davidson Prize w their imaginative ideas for 300 affordable homes reusing empty buildings on Union Street Catch our video showcasing their awesome work next week bit.ly/45kbIhh #heritage

How do buildings shape your sense of identity? Should a community's attachment to a building be relevant to planning decisions? Join us, @thegentleauthor.bsky.social and architect Simon Henley to discuss this critical issue on June 11: shorturl.at/m60vX 👉 Join our free mailing list: bit.ly/4kaRFqC

'We'll look back to these decades of demolition & just wonder what was going through our minds'🤔 Our director Henrietta Billings interviewed by #NLA about 50yrs of SAVE's work advocating for #retrofit not #wreckingballs ♻️ nla.london/news/five-mi... #SAVEis50 #heritage #buildings #reuse #carbon

Planning to spend the #weekend browsing properties 🏠on @themodernhouse.bsky.social? 🌟Dream a little bigger!🌟 Check out #HistoricEngland guide to awesome buildings ripe for new owners & investment. From cotton mills to pumping stations, what would you pick?🏫 historicengland.org.uk/advice/plann...

👏 Thanks for the warm welcome, #Plymouth & Nudge Community Builders. What an inspiring couple of days seeing your brilliant work bringing derelict buildings back to life step by step - and sharing SAVE’s national experience. 👷 Your creativity, grit and joy are contagious! #SAVEis50 #heritage