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16/05/08 English Heritage fails to support listing of internationally celebrated Estate
   
22/04/08 Dreamland Railway back on track
   
08/04/08 Margate's list Scenic Railway drestroyed by fire
   
12/02/08

Exemplary Inter-War Synagogue in Liverpool gets listing upgrade

   
26/11/07 Unlawful demolisher of Goldfinger schools gets fined
   
19/10/07 Certificate of Immunity Granted for Milton Court
   
17/07/07 Society challenges backlash over Plymouth Civic Centre listing
   
07/06/07 Scotland’s best post war building now on the World Monuments Fund watch list for most endangered buildings worldwide
   
11/05/07 Elisabeth Frink's Desert Quartet listed at Grade II*
   
11/03/07 60’s icon faces extinction
Rare K8 telephone boxes put forward for protection by
The Twentieth Century Society
   
20/02/07 Keep Public Sculpture Public - Elisabeth Frink's Desert Quartet threatened
   
15/02/07

Peter Pan Village Under Threat!

   
29/09/06 Milton Court Can be Saved
   
29/06/06 Richmond's Twentieth Century Buildings Get Recognition
   
29/06/06 Press digest on the de-listing proposal for the Commonwealth Institute
   
25/05/06 C20 Society appalled at government betrayal of post war architectural masterpiece
   
12/04/06 Scheme to save Crystal Palace
   
11/04/06 Diageo are demolishing Guinness brewery
   
20/02/06 London Skyline to be shorn
   
18/01/06 Unique Bathing Chalets must be saved
   
05/12/05 Scotland's best post war building desecrated - altar at Gillespie Kidd and Coia priest college vandalised
   
05/12/05 Church of England to demolish Peckham landmark
   
05/12/05 Lord Stratford lobbies for National Sports Centre
   
06/10/05 C20th Century Society confirmed as a statutory consultee
   
20/09/05 Battersea's famous Chimneys threatened
   
15/07/05 Result of Greenside planning inquiry - owner refused both listing building consent to demolish and planning permission for new house
   
31/05/05 C20 Society barred from Scott masterpiece: Guinness brewery under threat
   
24/05/05 Gone to the dogs: Catford’s Tote Building destroyed by night-time fire
   
24/05/05 Seminal early Ted Cullinan House threatened with demolition
   
24/05/05 Snookered? Five post war buildings submitted for listing: Four theatres, a civic centre and one department store to be considered by English Heritage
   
20/05/05 Cold War crisis in Cambridge. Public Inquiry into future of “Secret” building demanded by C20 Society
   
05/05 Bright young ideas for Risky Buildings : Workshop at Nottingham Trent University
   
25/04/05 Court passes sentence in 'Greenside' case
   
09/02/05 1930s Hampstead gem threatened
   
09/02/05 Huddersfield’s Grand Co-op desperate for protection and a new use
   
02/02/05 Cadbury-Brown school should be listed
   
28/01/05 Bid to save Catford sporting history - from the Twentieth Century Society and the British Greyhound Racing Board
   
26/11/04

Commonwealth Institute threatened by de-listing

   
26/11/04 Aldgate East Station to be spoilt: Once more London Underground threatens its own heritage
   
23/11/04 The Greenside Case : Vital issues at stake for the protection of listed buildings
   
22/11/04 Robert Harvey’s masterpiece about to be ruined
   
21/10/04 Experimental Islington School earmarked for demolition
   
12/10/04 Scottish post-war gem threatened by commercial scheme: Another Gillespie Kidd and Coia on the verge of destruction
   
09/09/04 Huddersfield ’s Queensgate Market proposed for listing
   
25/08/04 ‘Should Grotesque Buildings be Demolished?’: A reply to George Ferguson and the BBC
   
19/08/04 Mature work by Coventry’s best post-war architect saved: Robert Harvey’s 114 Kenilworth Road on the way to Grade II listing
   
19/08/04 Setting of Arts and Crafts masterpiece threatened: Baillie Scott house in Cambridge to be dwarfed
   
12/08/04 Letter: Alan Powers counters Richard Morrison's Royal Festival Hall comments
   
01/07/04 North London landmark spoiled by Camden council: The Chalcots Estate up for bastardising renovation
   
07/06/04 Embassy Court saved from ruin: Today works start at the modernist icon
   
26/05/04 Best Loved Element of Royal Festival Hall to be Destroyed: Canopy Will be Ripped Out for Uncertain Sound Improvement
   
28/04/04 1930s colossus comes back to life : Refurbishment scheme for Wallis House on Great West Road supported by C20 Society
   
28/04/04 Modernist seaside gem to be dwarfed - The De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill is threatened by adjacent development.
   
08/04/04 'Get Carter Car Park' Threatened – Another Owen Luder Building on the Brink of Demolition
   
30/03/04 Crown Estate to demolish Regent's Palace Hotel
Historic People's Palace faces the chop while Government dithers
   
24/03/04 Hounslow Council give go ahead to removal of much loved landmark: The ‘Lucozade Sign' to be taken down
   
22/03/04 Knap Lido to be demolished – Wales loses its best modern building
   
18/03/04 Crystal Palace, Britain 's first sports centre to be demolished: South London's best public building is threatened
   
17/03/04 Government announces Public Inquiry into demolition of C20th house
   
26/11/03 Greenside owner flouts consent processes and demolishes his home - entire listed building consent system now at risk
   
30/09/03 Greenside Update
   
23/06/03 Letter to the Times re. the South Bank
   
18/06/03 Greenside Update
   
27/02/03 Twentieth Century Society stands alone in fight to save Royal College of Art
   
27/02/03 One step closer in fight to save Birmingham Central Library?
   
31/01/03 The strangest conversion yet? Can a rare and forgotten 1930s water softening plant make an amazing new home?
   
31/01/03 The Midland Hotel - A happy end to a sorry tale
   
31/01/03 Greenside Saved - Courts To Quash Demolition Order
   
18/11/02 Current outline application proposes to demolish key buildings at University of Wolverhampton’s Walsall campus, says Twentieth Century Society
 
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