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STEPHEN BOND MA HONDART FSA MRICS GRADDIPCONSAA

Stephen Bond

Stephen Bond runs Heritage Places providing advice for the historic environment to public and private sector and institutional clients throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. Until 2008, he was a partner in chartered building surveyors, Tuffin Ferraby Taylor, leading its specialist division, TFT Cultural Heritage.

Stephen trained firstly as an archaeologist and later as a chartered building surveyor. He is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for work as a surveyor in building conservation. From 1991-98, he undertook a seven year secondment to the Board of Historic Royal Palaces, initially establishing and running its conservation and works operation as its Surveyor of the Fabric, and subsequently as Director of the Tower Environs Scheme - a major regeneration scheme focused on the urban setting of the Tower of London.

Stephen was closely involved in the establishment of the College of Estate Management’s Postgraduate Programme in Conservation of the Historic Environment at Reading University in 1990 and he continues as its external course director today. He is a member of the advisory panel to the Journal of Architectural Conservation, published by Donhead, and lectures widely on a range of topics, including on making assessments of heritage value, conservation planning, and the conduct of condition surveys of large and complex historic buildings.

He also gets involved in international World Heritage Site projects for UNESCO as a site management specialist. Recent work of this kind has included the provision of advice to national governments in Georgia, Bali and Sri Lanka, and capacity building for the Chandigarh administration in India, as part of the nomination process for the city (renowned for its modernist urban planning and architecture by Le Corbusier) as a World Heritage Site.

Stephen received the Peter Stone Award from the Association of Building Engineers in 1993 for his contribution to the building surveying profession and the RICS 'People in Conservation' award in 1999. De Montfort University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1998 in recognition of his contribution to building surveying and conservation.

He jointly authored a book on 'Managing Built Heritage' with Derek Worthing of the University of the West of England, published by Blackwells in December 2007.

Outside of Heritage Places, Stephen runs Lady Harriet's Rare Breed Pork and Eggs with his wife, Bridget, from the rural idyll of the Brendon Hills on the edge of Exmoor. Lady Harriet's comprises Oxford Sandy and Black and Berkshire pigs, and White Rock, Light Sussex, Bluebell and Wynadotte hens.