{"id":2820,"date":"2011-06-11T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2011-06-11T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T09:26:07","slug":"ihbc-%e2%80%98nppf-draft-will-spread-uncertainty%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2820","title":{"rendered":"IHBC: \u2018NPPF draft will spread uncertainty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) has endorsed the widespread concerns over what is emerging as the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), a version produced by a small <\/span>government-<\/span>appointed panel representing practitioners.<\/span><\/p>\n


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The re-casting of \u2018sustainable development\u2019 as a driver of growth is causing particular concern over the uncertainty it will bring to the recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jo Evans, IHBC Chair, said: \u2018The heritage sector should take real pride in the fact that heritage has been given such a high profile in this key document, and deservedly so.\u00a0\u00a0It reflects the ever-increasing awareness that our heritage can underpin the economic recovery.\u00a0\u00a0Whether as a catalyst for the economy, as a key to our future low carbon environment, or as the most publicly accessible resource for culture and tourism, our heritage today underpins our future well-being.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2018However there\u2019s also huge concern over the re-casting of sustainable development as some sort of simple engine of growth, rather than its manager. To suggest that \u2018without growth, a sustainable future cannot be achieved\u2019 misses the point: that government is responsible for framing growth, but planning uses the principles of sustainable development to manage and promote it!.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2018Up-ending the fundamentals of sustainability like this means that government can only spread uncertainty in the planning system.\u00a0\u00a0Through making the process even more opaque, it will threaten our recovery rather than underpin it\u2019.<\/p>\n

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IHBC President Eddie Booth said: \u2018The IHBC has long said that, properly drafted and supported, the NPPF could be a short, sharp, pithy document fit for purpose in the planning system.\u00a0 Fully integrated with wider planning policy, guidance and advice, including spatial policy, there is no reason why it should not do the job the Coalition seeks.\u00a0\u00a0What we see here, however, is a kind of mosaic of occasional insight laid on the flimsiest of surfaces, that re-spinning of the sustainability agenda.\u2019<\/p>\n

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IHBC Policy Chair Mike Brown said: \u2018We agree with the wide-ranging concerns already raised over the NPPF draft. \u00a0 Its dubious revisionist approach to sustainability only serves to highlight the urgent need for formal recognition of the importance of our heritage as a resource for the future – economic and environmental as well as cultural.\u00a0\u00a0If it recognises that, the NPPF can then identify how that resource can be competently managed through consent processes that are properly resourced\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Download the IHBC\u2019s initial response, from February 2011, on the NPPF proposals:\u00a0 HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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For background and links see: LINK <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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