Chapter 5 - Appraisals and recommendations

Contents

Introduction to Chapter 5

This introduction was written for the version of chapter 5 published by RUDI .

"Headington Quarry: An Oxford Conservation Area" has been written to attract attention to the fact that, after designation as a Conservation Area, not much more has been done to advise or help local residents when they need to alter or extend their properties in this protected area. The publication isthus addressed to the inhabitants of the area to help them deal with building and environmental issues which arise from the fact of being in a Conservation Area.

The aim of the text is first to inform and attract local readers with a detailed account of the physical, historical and environmental features of their Conservation Area, and then gently to advise them in a easily understandable style on how to go about extending, altering or building new additions to their homes.

This is dealt with in Chapter 5, reproduced here, which constitutes the main core of the book. The local resident is here invited to read the text along side a number of illustrations, where clear cases are graphically made for and against the different possibilities of intervention in the local built environment, and where the local mixture of styles and building typology and materials are shown as typical of the area's tradition.

The book is available, priced £4.95, from Oxford bookshops and from the author, Olga Samuels, at 49, Bainton Road, Oxford OX2 7AG