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12 ONE resources and objectives have been chosen in order to critique the relevance of accurately calculating cultural significance and the writing and maintaining of conservation plans. Whilst supporting desk based study will provide the historic and statutory context within which the initiatives operate. It should be emphasised that the scope of the primary research was not to gather extensive data on a large cross section of organisations and their procedures and attitudes towards historic maintenance management, but to carry out comparative and qualitative research using a robust sample in order to hopefully gain insight into the largest property owners within the UK. Maintenance ‘the process of preserving a condition or situation or the state of being preserved the process of keeping something in good condition’ Oxford English Dictionary Maintenance through the various international charters, conservation literature and academic analysis has fallen under many different guises with the difficulty of forming the boundaries of what constitutes as necessary but One•Three Defining Maintenance The International Contribution Chapter One - Introduction Aimee Felton