Background

Easy Access to Historic Landscapes and Buildings

Thursday 8 July 2021, 9:00am

  This is an online event

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About


Online Workshop

This fully facilitated online workshop will allow you to improve your understanding of the statutory background to accessibility within the historic environment and give you an opportunity to explore best practice when managing historic places for greater access. The session will be run virtually in partnership with the Centre for Accessible Environments.

Who should attend? Online Workshop

This course is aimed at public sector heritage and non-heritage professionals with an interest in conservation, heritage and landscapes. HELM training is designed to meet the needs of Local Authority Planning Officers and other heritage service professionals working in the public sector.

If you would like to find out more about whether this course is suitable for you, please e-mail: helmbookings@HistoricEngland.org.uk.

Why should you join this course?

Delivered by specialists from the Centre for Accessible Environments(CAE), you will receive guidance on the statutory background to accessibility; will be given the opportunity to explore key principles of accessibility such as access audits, conservation assessments and access plans; and you will also have an opportunity to conduct an access assessment on a historic building or landscape.

Outcomes

At the end of this course you will:

  • be aware of the Historic England guidance on Easy Access to Historic Landscapes and Easy Access to Historic Buildings
  • understand the statutory background to accessibility and the historic environment
  • understand how to approach and develop access audits and plans
  • apply best practice in terms of adaptation to buildings and landscapes improving mobility and wheelchair access and sensory access
  • apply best practice in providing virtual access to heritage assets
  • make informed decisions about balancing access, conservation and economic pressures

Agenda


  • 25/05/2021

    09:00 - 16:00

    Programme for the day

    10.00- Introduction by Historic England

    10.10- Why access matters (the benefits, Historic England Policies, Statutory frameworks)

    10.50: Planning better access: What is reasonable? Developing an Access Strategy

    11.25- Break

    11.40- Overcoming barriers

    12.00- Tricky issues – group exercise

    12.45- Lunch

    13.30- Access audit- group exercise

    14.30- Feedback from audit and group discussion

    15.15- Break

    15.30- Case studies – examples of good practice

    16.15- Final Q&A

    16.30- Close

    Please note this programme may be subject to change.


Speakers


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Ann Sawyer, B. Arch, Dip. Arch

Centre for Accessible Environments


Ann Sawyer is an architect and access consultant and has been involved in inclusive design for over 20 years. She has worked on a wide variety of projects and has extensive experience covering design, audit and management of accessible built environments, strategic access planning and project brief preparation, and training in access, inclusive design and disability issues. She has worked with CAE on major new development projects including the North West Cambridge development for the University of Cambridge and a wide variety of historic buildings including current work on the Palace of Westminster and the Old Admiralty Building.

Ann is an experienced trainer, having taught on the MSc in Inclusive Environments at the University of Reading, the post-graduate course in Access Auditing at the University of Portsmouth and now regularly delivers CAE’s access auditing courses. Ann is the author of Historic England’s guidance publication Easy Access to Historic Buildings (2014) and The Access Manual (3rd ed. 2014).

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Teresa Rumble, BA (Hons), MA, NRAC Auditor

Centre for Accessible Environments


Teresa has a BA in 3-Dimensional Design and a City and Guilds qualification in Garden Design. She joined CAE in 2016 from the National Register of Access Consultants and has extensive experience of access assessments, design appraisals and access audits of both heritage and modern buildings, as well as external greenspace.

Teresa’s career background includes 14 years of temporary exhibition and permanent gallery design work at the British Museum in London, and she has applied this to the creation of inclusive visitor experiences, most recently for the Revealing the Charterhouse museum and the National Gallery in London and at RHS Gardens - Wisley. Teresa is also a Civic Trust Awards Inclusive Design Assessor.

Registration Options


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Historic England Training
helmbookings@historicengland.org.uk