Launched in May, the National Heritage Protection Plan (NHPP) is the national framework bringing together work by English Heritage (EH) and other partners within the sector on historic environment protection and, to kick-start two-way dialogue with the sector, English Heritage will be piloting use of the Communities of Practice website – a UK resource for those involved in local delivery – to host online discussions and share ideas.
Heritage Alliance reports:
The NHPP is overseen by an Advisory Board comprising representatives from across the heritage sector, for which The Heritage Alliance is the secretariat. The independent Advisory Board (which next meets on 17 October) works to ensure two-way communication with the sector about the NHPP to ensure stakeholder contribution to future versions of the Plan.
Registration on Communities of Practice is free-of-charge, and once registered you can search for ‘Historic Environment’ to find the NHPP community. Chair of the NHPP Advisory Board, Dr Mike Heyworth, said: ‘The NHPP Advisory Board is keen to encourage anyone with an interest in heritage protection to help with the development of English Heritage’s NHPP, and also to consider how others can contribute to a wider sector-plan to improve protection in the future. The Board will monitor the online discussions with interest as one mechanism to allow everyone to get involved.’
Live online discussions are scheduled for 27 September (2pm – 5pm, a discussion to inform the ‘Unknown Marine Assets and Landscapes’ activity that will discover, record, and identify important sites in the marine historic environment), 18 October (discussion of a research framework for the Mesolithic period) and 8 November (discussion of places of worship). English Heritage will post details of timings of the discussions and future topics on the Communities of Practice pages.
For the NHPP see: LINK
For the NHPP Advisory Board see: LINK
For Communities of Practice see: LINK
