Belfast, Jaffe Memorial Fountain
March 2008: The Jaffe Memorial Fountain (1877), erected to the memory of DANIEL JOSEPH JAFFE, father of Otto Jaffe, twice Lord Mayor of Belfast, has been restored and returned to its original site in Victoria Square outside the new Victoria Square Shopping Centre.

Brighton,  former Devonshire Place Synagogue
June 2007: Conversion into nine apartments by Sophie Curtis Property; the inscription on the façade has been sensitively restored and a Blue Plaque affixed to the building commemorates its architect David Mocatta.

January 2005: A scheme which would have destroyed the last remaining original features of the Grade II Listed former Regency synagogue at Devonshire Place was considerably scaled down. In July 2004, English Heritage, the local branch of the Jewish Historical Society of England, local residents and Jewish Heritage UK objected to plans to extend and convert the building into flats, involving loss of the Regency ceiling lantern, roofline and much of the external fabric. At their meeting in January 2005, Brighton & Hove City Council’s Planning Committee accepted Jewish Heritage UK’s written representation that the reinstatement of the inscription on the façade of the building: “JEWS SYNAGOGUE 5598 [= 1838]” should be made a condition of finally granting planning consent. This inscription has been painted over at some time in the past, presumably without Listed Building Consent, but is still visible on close inspection. The former Devonshire Place Synagogue, remodelled in 1836-38 by the first Anglo-Jewish architect David Mocatta (who also designed Brighton Railway Station), is included in the Brighton Jewish Heritage Trail in Jewish Heritage in England (published by English Heritage in 2006).

Manchester, Talmud Torah Jewish School
June 2005: Almost total demolition and redevelopment as warehouse and office space has been prevented thanks to the intervention of Jewish Heritage UK. The former school at No. 11 Bent Street, Cheetham, was built in 1894-95, architect William Sharp Ogden of Cheetham-based Ogden & Charlton. Plans have now been modified to ensure the retention of the original main range, including foundation stones and inscriptions, of a building of considerable local interest, and which constitutes one of the sites on the Manchester Jewish Museum’s Jewish Heritage Trail. The school gave its name to a new street: Torah Street - the only one in the country.

Manchester, South Manchester Synagogue
December 2004: South Manchester Synagogue in Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield (Joseph Sunlight 1912-13, Grade II), is of considerable interest as the first synagogue in the country built with a cantilevered gallery, i.e. without column supports beneath, made possible through advances in steel and concrete building technology. The synagogue recently faced redundancy on the removal of its congregation to Bowden in Cheshire, but has been purchased by a consortium, with the intention of turning it into a residential Jewish student centre, feasible due to its proximity to the University of Manchester campus.

Ramsgate, Sir Moses Montefiore Estate
April 2004: Proposals for redevelopment in the vicinity of the historic Montefiore Synagogue and Mausoleum may be called in for Public Enquiry. The local Montefiore Action Project (MAP), with the support of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe, have been campaigning to protect the integrity of the whole site against inappropriate redevelopment. Current proposals include a housing estate and private medical centre.

York, Clifford’s Tower
September 2003: After a lengthy Public Inquiry, a proposed £60 million development scheme, known as “Coppergate” was rejected by the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. The scheme would have involved the building of a shopping complex 25 metres from the base of Clifford’s Tower. Clifford’s Tower was the site of the massacre of York Jewry in 1190. The proposed development by Land Securities, which was nicknamed “Shoppergate”, was fiercely opposed as inappropriate by locals spearheaded by the Castle Area Campaign. Their campaign has had the support of CABE [Council for Architecture & the Built Environment], the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage in the UK & Ireland.