ABSTRACT
One of the recurrent themes in this book is how, in recent decades, conser-
vation became established as a rarely contested, major objective of planning
policy. In part, this is held to relate to the wide public support that exists for
conservation policies. There is certainly a massive popular interest in the
western world in more broadly defined conceptions of general and personal
heritage, as evidenced in the UK by a rash of history-related programmes on
television and the large-scale pursuit of researching family trees.
