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Negotiating a negative past in the reuse of historic prisons
Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal,
15
(4),
394-405
(2022)
Abstract
This paper investigates the reuse of historic former prisons and the effect of their past connotations on that redevelopment and adaptation. It examines, through stakeholder interviews at two former UK prison sites, Northallerton and Oxford, how their history is incorporated into the redevelopment. It explores how the different stakeholders of each site perceived the sites and the effect these perceptions had on their redevelopment. The research explored what happens when a historic site being redeveloped is one with a negative past and how this affects its adaptation and reuse. The paper examines how the history of these two prison sites was employed, treated and dealt with by the different stakeholders working in the redevelopment and successor uses. This approach considers the role of practitioners involved in negatively perceived heritage sites and what this means for heritage redevelopment more widely.
Keywords: historic prisons; redevelopment; perceptions; negative past; heritage
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Author's Biography
Carolyn Gibbeson is a lecturer in Real Estate in the Department of the Natural and Built Environment at Sheffield Hallam University, and is Deputy Course Leader for the BSc Real Estate programme. Carolyn has previously worked as a commercial surveyor in the areas of valuation, property management and Landlord and Tenant. Carolyn has just completed her PhD entitled ‘After the Asylum: Place, value and heritage in the redevelopment of historic former asylums’ at Newcastle University.
Sarah Gill LLB MSc MRICS, is a Chartered Surveyor at HBD working in the Development Team in Leeds. She has previously worked in commercial consultancy within the valuation business line as well as Asset Management for a development company. Having previously studied Law LLB at the University of Sheffield, she went on to undertake the Real Estate MSc, and it is from her dissertation for the MSc that the data in this paper is taken.
