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24 and longevity of our mutual cultural heritage but also maintenance offers economic sustainability, through smaller scale works causing less disruption but fundamentally planned cyclical works continuing to provide skilled and regular work for those within the sector. Sustainable development is now a cornerstone of all construction industries yet there seems little to encourage proactive approaches towards the management and maintenance of historic buildings, in order to utilise the existing embodied energy to allow the historic environment to contribute towards the carbon agenda. These are all fundamental ideologies to the sustainability crusade and yet are not well supported by the legislative framework for the historic environment (Dann,N andCantell,T.2007,as cited in Forsyth,M.2007:p186). PPS1 attempts to reinforce the principles of collaboration between the historic environment and new construction development, highlighting the already existing resource that is ripe for reuse in order to integrate sustainability at the heart of regeneration and development (DETR. 2005) but failing to draw attention to the highest consumption areas of construction, primarily sourcing and obtaining new materials, intensive manufacturing processes and transport costs. TWO Chapter Two - Context Aimee Felton