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91 practice methodologies across more than the participating organisations. It may be that across a larger cross section of organisations, data may compound perceptions- already evident within the case studies, of the difficulties of pleasing multiple Local Authorities, and keeping maintenance within the relative budgets. The emerging themes throughout the research seem to relate to the everyday organisational requirements of compromises and priorities including balancing statutory and legislative obligations, economics and relevance of use. This finding is related to Earls’ statement (2003:p145) that a sound conservation philosophy is not based on a set of immutable rules but on a clear understanding of what the work is setting out to achieve. Implicit within all the strategies and documents provided by the participating non-heritage focused organisations was the awareness and incorporation of organisational and legislative structures- which then generated the approach towards the historic building. At no point did the perception of worth of historic merit govern the process of continual change. This finding connected two research aims, whereby identifying that organisations do not solve problems associated with historic buildings as separate entities but produce combined strategies. This is an important finding as it helps to identify that the ‘mutations in the preoccupations of society’ (Phelps et al . 2002:p247) have not impregnated organisations and their individual response to repairing and using historic buildings. Amongst the case study organisations there was a predominant lack of NINE Chapter Nine - Conclusion Nine•Two Emerging Themes Aimee Felton