{"id":33292,"date":"2022-05-10T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33292"},"modified":"2022-05-10T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:53:08","slug":"ihbc-heritage-from-the-doorstep-york-to-try-again-for-unesco-whs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33292","title":{"rendered":"IHBC \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: York to try again for UNESCO WHS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>York\u2019s last bid to be listed as a place of \u2018outstanding universal value to humanity\u2019 was rejected in 2011, when only its archaeological deposits were put forward, but now a more \u2018holistic\u2019 approach may succeed.<\/h3>\n
image: Harry Mitchell| (Micklegate Bar (3).JPG)Rosser1954 (York Minster and city walls, Yorkshire, England.jpg)Ksenia Bramley (York Castle (149559343).jpeg)mattbuck (York MMB 46 River Ouse.jpg)Peter Czerwinski (York Bird’s Eye View.jpg)DragonofBatley (derived collage), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n

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\u2026 achieving the status will be “difficult, though not impossible”…<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

York Mix<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

A report from York World Heritage Steering Group, approved by the City of York Council\u2019s executive on Thursday, noted that \u2013 despite their belief York has \u201ca very strong case for designation\u201d \u2013 that actually achieving the status will be \u201cdifficult, though not impossible\u201d.<\/p>\n

This is because the World Heritage list is now \u201cbiased against Western European sites\u201d, the report adds, with a number of medieval walled cathedral cities already on the list.<\/p>\n

York would have stood a better chance of success in the 1980s and early 1990s, the report adds, when \u2018inconclusive discussions\u2019 were held about the idea.<\/p>\n

Janet Hopton, a former York councillor who began looking into York\u2019s bid as Lord Mayor in 2006, told councillors: \u201cWorld Heritage status would support the council\u2019s policies and ambitions for York, in particular by raising York\u2019s international profile \u2013 by helping to protect the heritage, both important for itself, but also for York\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Encouraged to apply<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fresh bid focuses on all of York\u2019s historic centre, which includes 22 scheduled monuments, more than 2,000 listed buildings and 35 conservation areas.<\/p>\n

John Oxley, York\u2019s former city archaeologist, said: \u201cThe proposal identifies York\u2019s outstanding universal value as being the outstanding example in northwest Europe of urban development that commences in the Roman period and continues from 71 AD as a living city, down to the present day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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York\u2019s last bid to be listed as a place of \u2018outstanding universal value to humanity\u2019 was rejected in 2011, when only its archaeological deposits were put forward, but now a more \u2018holistic\u2019 approach may succeed. image: Harry Mitchell| (Micklegate Bar … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33292","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33295,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33292\/revisions\/33295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}