English Heritage Season 1 Episode 2 Romancing the Stone 2009
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Chief executive Simon Thurley's programme of modernisation leads to the project of saving Sheffield's Park Hill Estate, a crumbling 1950s monolith that dominated the city's skyline. The decision to list the site proved highly unpopular with the local population and plunged English Heritage into a bitter dispute, costing the taxpayer over ~£40 million. It also brought one of the UK's major property developers to the brink of collapse after the onset of the credit crunch meant they ran out of money. Could Thurley find a way forward to restore this eyesore?
- Released: 2009-05-01
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Simon Thurley, Samuel West
- Director: Bruce Law, Kate Spankie, Patrick Forbes, Nicolas Kent, Stephanie Collins
- Source: CWR-CRB
