The Government’s response to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Built Environment (BE), says it ‘recognises that England’s historic environment is a resource of significant cultural, social and economic value’.
The 44 page document is the response to the Select Committee report on the Built Environment published February 2016. This earlier report said that ‘England lacks a proactive, long-term national strategy for managing our historic environment, as part of planning for the future of the built environment. We believe that such a strategy, which would recognise the full value of our built heritage as a unique national and local asset, central to place-making, should be articulated for the future.’
As well as recognising England’s historic environment, the Government said it has ‘has set in place frameworks that promote its conservation and management’.
The Government also responded to a request to not move ministerial responsibility for heritage from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to the Department for Communities and Local Government. And that the ability of the National Planning Policy Framework to balance heritage protection and development policies should be maintained sustained, enhanced and delivered.
The Government’s response to the points on the historic environment can be found from paragraph 112 onwards.
View the Government response
View the House of Lords Select Committee report on the built environment
