{"id":2258,"date":"2011-01-11T18:38:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T18:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2011-01-11T18:51:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T18:51:49","slug":"ihbc-localism-bill-threatens-national-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"IHBC: Localism Bill threatens national heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>The new \u2018Localism Bill\u2019 could threaten England\u2019s historic places, the IHBC has highlighted, as current provisions will allow new local planning procedures to override national priorities for the country\u2019s valued places.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jo Evans, Chair of\u00a0 The Institute\u00a0of Historic Building and Conservation (IHBC), the professional body for built and historic environment conservation specialists, said:<\/p>\n

“The Bill includes precise specifications for new local management procedures to override national cultural interests supported by listing and\u00a0conservation area\u00a0designations. \u00a0The government has already agreed to protect the natural environment under its new planning framework, and it\u2019s unthinkable not to make the same commitment to our historic places;\u00a0 not least for the social, cultural and economic resources that they represent for the people living there.<\/p>\n

Only recently\u00a0VisitBritain\u00a0highlighted how important the built heritage is to our tourist industry, so the current position in the Bill could blow a huge hole in our prospects for economic recovery. We hope government accepts the importance of looking after the places that people benefit from, enjoy and value, and removes these dangerous provisions from the Bill.”<\/p>\n

Se\u00e1n O\u2019Reilly, Director of the IHBC, said:<\/p>\n

“The Bill, as currently proposed, includes a new local management tool, the Neighbourhood Development Order, that could negate Listed Building and Conservation Area procedures that help care for a substantial national resource. \u00a0This is not how we should look after our valuable and unique historic places, which are already severely threatened by the devastating reductions in local conservation officers recently documented by the sector.”<\/p>\n

The IHBC will continue to highlight the danger of maintaining these provisions, and encourages interested organisations to contact its director, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Reilly, with messages of support and proposals for partnership at\u00a0director@ihbc.org.uk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Notes
\n<\/span>Schedule 12 (paragraphs 22-24), in Volume II of the Localism Bill provide for Neighbourhood Development Orders to override historic buildings and area legislation.<\/p>\n

Monitor the progress of the Bill at: LINK<\/a><\/p>\n

See the documentation at: LINK<\/a><\/p>\n

See the initial reports on the planning framework on the IHBC\u2019s NewsBlog, and the government commitment to protect the natural environment: LINK<\/a>
\nFor the VisitBritain report see: LINK<\/a><\/p>\n

Download Vol I of the localism Bill HERE<\/a>
\nDownload Vol II of the localism Bill HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new \u2018Localism Bill\u2019 could threaten England\u2019s historic places, the IHBC has highlighted, as current provisions will allow new local planning procedures to override national priorities for the country\u2019s valued places. Jo Evans, Chair of\u00a0 The Institute\u00a0of Historic Building and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}