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Despite a legal victory, anti-demolition campaigners look set to be left disappointed

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In hindsight campaign group Save Britain’s Heritage’s legal victory last year is starting to look a bit like Chesney Hawkes’ pop career - one brief highlight followed by a progressive sense of disappointment.

Just nine months ago Save was full of hope after it won the right to a judicial review of the government’s decision to allocate £35.5 million to help councils hit by the closure of the housing market renewal programme. Months later it celebrated after the government accepted granting HMR transition to councils for demolitions was ‘unlawful’. Save argued the government had promised it would be spent largely on refurbishment work.

However, this week it acknowledged the victory has so far been largely symbolic after it threatened legal action as the government now says it can’t claw back the money and demolition plans are still in place.

Its legal win aside, Save appears to have given councils little to worry about so far.

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