We also reported that when English Heritage conducted a national survey of conservation areas, Boston Borough Council couldn't be bothered to fill it in.
Sadly it seems that nothing much has changed.
Boston has another interesting distinction to add to its quiver of blunt arrows in that not only individual buildings are listed as being at risk this year - but the entire conservation area is similarly regarded as being under threat.
It is a disgraceful state of affairs when an entire area is now under threat.
But is par for the course.
All that seems to have happened recently on the conservation front in Boston is that the borough council has managed to lose a small fortune in ratepayers’ money on 116 High Street Boston and has now handed it over to Heritage Lincolnshire who plan to “bring it back into use for the local community” - something that has not always the case with other of the group’s projects.
However, we are disappointed that once again, the BBI can talk the talk, but when it comes to walking the walk it is - as usual - found wanting.
Boston does have a lot of commendable architecture - not of the quality that many of the great and the good who compare the town with the likes of York would like us to think - and to let it decline not merely day-by-day, but as we are now seeing, year-by-year is a disgraceful piece of negligence.
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