A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THATCH AND THATCHING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

摘要

This major policy document provides a snapshot of Thatching in the UK today. This industry is essential to the heritage of the country where there are over 60,000 thatched properties maintained by fewer than 1,000 thatchers. They are employed by homeowners who want to protect a small part of Britain's cultural heritage, and many realise the dream of living in a thatched cottage somewhere in the country. The guide portrays a professional organisation striving to negotiate around an entrenched and outdated 'conservation' environment imposed upon it by often uninformed and blanket legislation over the last 40 years. Often English Heritage, Local Conservation Officers and the Planning Inspectorate are out of step with the current needs of the thatching industry and they carry no legal responsibility for the consequences of any imposed requirements regarding choice or treatment of material or style of thatching.