SPAB Ireland Lecture Series 2023

Event details

14th June 2023 at 7pm

Our SPAB Ireland Lecture Series 2023 focuses on sustainability and adaptive reuse of existing vacant buildings.  This lecture will focus on Bringing Back Our Town Centres: conserving our historic buildings and streetscapes in the context of sustainability and adaptive reuse.

About the lecturer

Collette Beattie is Conservation Officer within the Community Development & Planning Services of Donegal County Council. She holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Planning, a Post- Graduate Diploma in Town and Country Planning from Queen’s University Belfast, a Post- Graduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation from Trinity College Dublin and an M.Sc. in Architectural Conservation from the University of Edinburgh. She has worked as a Planning Officer in the United Kingdom for six years in the historic built environment of Cambridge in posts with both Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridgeshire County Council. She worked in Forward Planning in Donegal County Council for ten years where her main role was managing and delivering projects such as Donegal’s first Landscape Character Assessment as well as Local Area Plans. In her role as Conservation Officer, she oversees statutory obligations in relation to architectural heritage and conservation arising from the provisions and requirements of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). This statutory work currently includes managing a large portfolio of proposed additions to the Record of Protected Structures, as well as providing advice to owners and occupiers of structures already included in the Record of Protected Structures on good conservation practice. The role also includes management of the Donegal County Council’s participation in two related Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage funding schemes, namely the Built Heritage Investment Scheme and the Historic Structures Fund. She is co-designer of the Thatch Repair Grant Scheme that won the Chambers Ireland Excellence in Local Government Award in the ‘Heritage & Built Environment’ category in 2020. She co-managed the award-winning Historic Towns Initiatives in Letterkenny in 2019, Ramelton 2020 and Ballyshannon 2021 & 2022.

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As long as there is space on the event, we usually allow you to book for both yourself and a guest. When completing the booking form, you will be asked to select the number of people and put in your own details on the first page, then to put in your second person's details on the next page. The event fee shown on each of these pages is for the individual person - you will be shown the total amount due once you get to the summary page.

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