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28 from other countries within the EU (ibid), various authors such as Earl, 1994, and Wood, 2005, proportion blame to the lack of professional accreditation and training available, due to what Dann and Cantell describe as maintenance being the ‘less attractive option’ (2007:189). The constant and strong emphasis on the importance of minimum intervention as a tool for maintenance has encouraged the practice of preventative or planned strategies, with purist conservationists maintaining the inherent value of the fabric.This suggestion comes with the overlying premise that any intervention should be carefully considered and evaluated in order to minimise the consequences to the embedded cultural significance of the historic fabric. There are conflicts between the ICOMOS (Australia. 1988) ideology of ‘as much as necessary and as little as possible’ and the need of owners to provide a building in a presentable and aesthetically pleasing unified condition. For these owners leaving elements of the historic fabric until repair becomes an absolute necessity proves a difficult concept to adhere to. Non-heritage focused organisations that have participated in somewhat limited comparative studies on maintenance management by UWE in 2003 have cited inconvenience, low productivity, difficulties in correlating information for later evaluative use and problems accurately forecasting budgets for the work necessary as reasons preventing more effective and coherent management plans (2003:p102). The study discovered the best practice non-heritage focused organisations (with regard to maintenance) were the non-commercial- (primarily universities and some local authorities), THREE Three•Two Corporate objectives towards maintenance Chapter Three - Literature Review Aimee Felton