ABSTRACT
The first part of this study traced the policy and legislative history of urban conservation from its early origins through to the start of the Second World War. Part 2 continues the story from the Town and Country Planning Acts of 1944 and 1947 up to European Architectural Heritage Year in 1975, after which, according to Alan Dobby writing in 1978, ‘conservation in Britain was past its peak’. In fact this proved to be a pessimistic view, as will be shown in Part 4, which carries the story forward to 1996.
