{"id":33436,"date":"2022-05-27T16:55:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33436"},"modified":"2022-05-27T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:55:39","slug":"ihbcs-heritage-from-the-doorstep-fifes-historic-buildings-deteriorating-due-to-climate-change-are-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33436","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Fife\u2019s historic buildings, ‘deteriorating due to climate change’, are closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A councillor has criticised the decision to close so many of Fife’s historic attractions at the same time as \u2018short-sighted\u2019, reports The Dunfermline Press.<\/em><\/h3>\n
image: for illustration purposes only – Dunfermline Palace by Chiswick Chap, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n

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\u2026 no indication when sites such as Culross Abbey, Dunfermline Palace and Aberdour Castle will re-open\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

The Dunfermline Press<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

A councillor has criticised the decision to close so many of Fife’s historic attractions at the same time as \u201cshort-sighted\u201d.<\/p>\n

And David Barratt said Historic Environment Scotland (HES) \u2013 who are carrying out \u201cessential\u201d inspections on buildings they suspect are crumbling even more due to climate change \u2013 have given no indication when sites such as Culross Abbey, Dunfermline Palace and Aberdour Castle will re-open.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThey’ve closed Inchcolm Abbey so no-one can go there and St Bridget’s Kirk in Dalgety Bay could potentially be shut for a couple of years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know if it will ever open again.<\/p>\n

\u201cAberdour Castle and Culross Abbey are closed too \u2013 a number of our really important built heritage sites in the area aren’t open to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s not clear to me why they’ve done it, it seems really short-sighted and there’s been no clear or publicly-communicated strategy about what the long-term goal is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, as the Press reported, Fife Council announced a three-year deal with Visit Scotland \u2013 they’ll pay them \u00a380,000 in the first year \u2013 aimed at enticing tourists back to the Kingdom after the pandemic.<\/p>\n

History and heritage was highlighted as one of the main themes\u2026<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for HES told the Press: \u201cSome sites in Fife are currently closed as a precaution for essential high-level masonry inspections….\u201d<\/p>\n

HES cares for 336 buildings and sites across the country and are implementing a new approach to inspections in response to the effects of climate change\u2026.<\/p>\n

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A councillor has criticised the decision to close so many of Fife’s historic attractions at the same time as \u2018short-sighted\u2019, reports The Dunfermline Press. image: for illustration purposes only – Dunfermline Palace by Chiswick Chap, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0>, via … 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-33436","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\/33436","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=33436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33438,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions\/33438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}