{"id":28266,"date":"2020-11-13T17:49:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T17:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28266"},"modified":"2020-11-13T17:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T17:49:21","slug":"ihbcs-out-of-context-cpd-boost-from-enfield-via-ireland-participation-heritage-and-a-local-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28266","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Out of Context\u2019 CPD boost from Enfield, via Ireland: Participation, heritage and a local plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The IHBC\u2019s member journal Context<\/a>, takes Ireland as its theme for Issue 163<\/a>, but such themed issues also\u00a0 carry more general CPD, and this issue also has Harriet Bell remind us of the origins and importance of public participation in heritage matters, with a case study of the London Borough of Enfield\u2019s new heritage strategy that can offer lessons to any practitioner, not least from Sherry Arnstein!<\/h3>\n

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\u2026 Arnstein published her seminal \u2018Ladder of Citizen Participation\u2019 (1969)\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

\u2026 consultation was already more than Arnstein\u2019s definition\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Harriet Bell writes:<\/p>\n

Just over 50 years ago Sherry Arnstein published her seminal \u2018Ladder of Citizen Participation\u2019 (1969), critiquing planning practice regarding community participation and challenging the profession to do better.\u00a0 Some thousands of academic citations later, her critique of participatory practice and the challenge to improve decision making still resonate. Heritage planning has often tended to be inherently non-participatory, rooted in statutory requirements and using consultation exercises or specialist advisory groups…<\/p>\n

.., In June 2019 Enfield adopted a new Heritage Strategy, Making Places: Enfield Heritage Strategy 2019\u201324 SPD<\/em>.\u00a0 It is the council\u2019s second heritage strategy, but it is its first as a supplementary planning document (SPD).\u00a0 Enfield\u2019s first Heritage Strategy: A Living Landscape (2008) identified key projects and highlighted the importance of both tangible and intangible heritage in the borough. This cross-council document included specific proposals for the museum and local studies library and archives services. The new strategy developed from this, identifying not only how heritage would be managed and resources prioritised, but also how the strategy would inform the coming transformational growth that Enfield anticipates through its new local plan.<\/p>\n

Feedback from the intensive engagement through workshops, focus groups and the council\u2019s place and design quality review panel led to reframing heritage as a key part of good growth and successful place-making, and its associated importance for place attachment and creating a sense of place\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u2026 For this project, however, early participation in the development of the heritage strategy meant that consultation was already more than Arnstein\u2019s definition, allowing consultation to extend beyond existing \u2018stakeholder\u2019 groups… Without the early work to ensure participation, the views of several communities would have been missed.<\/p>\n

Read the full article<\/a> and find out more<\/p>\n

See IHBC NewsBlogs<\/a> on conservation participation<\/p>\n

Download the heritage strategy<\/a><\/p>\n

Reading Context<\/em><\/a> helps IHBC members develop their skills across all of the IHBC\u2019s Areas of Competence, and so is a critical baseline in addressing priorities in Continuing Professional Development<\/a> (CPD)<\/p>\n

To access Context<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n