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92 NINE cohesion between organisational priorities, documents relating to the historic buildings and information collected and subsequently stored. Whilst the organisations were clear about the objectives of the maintenance- almost conclusively legislative obligations or finance, the methods used to fulfil these strategies were confusing and ineffective. The organisations in themselves demonstrate best practice and innovation from their own fields of expertise, yet fail to utilise the existing systems or protocols and re-contextualise these tried and tested approaches to the historic environment. From the research, scale of the organisation is a fundamental parameter for the type of information system used- a correlation appears between the more detailed and numerous the systems become, the more difficult it is to access relevant and useful information on a day-to-day basis. Condition surveys and maintenance management plans used by the various organisations all failed to produce an integrated approach, embedding the historic assets into organisation policies. The lack of relevant, informed and achievable documentation available for non-heritage focused organisations from within the conservation profession it can be concluded is actively preventing the association between historic buildings and economic, fully- functioning and manageable heritage- further reinforcing poor, high cost- to both fabric and budget maintenance work. The seeming unimportance of cultural significance and vulnerable fabric at organisations with heritage focused documents only goes to further reinforce the notion that without initially identifying and acknowledging the significance of the historic building there is nothing to maintain. Chapter Nine - Conclusion Aimee Felton