{"id":3673,"date":"2012-02-03T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T15:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2012-02-03T15:53:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T15:53:23","slug":"peers-urge-protection-of-cultural-interests-through-nppf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=3673","title":{"rendered":"Peers urge protection of \u2018cultural interests\u2019 through NPPF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heritage Alliance has provided an update on discussions in the House of Lords around the NPPF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heritage Alliance writes: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a lively exchange in the Lords on Monday (23 January), Peers urged the Government to show its commitment to culture through the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Last year the Government decided \u2018to include cultural development under the general heading of leisure and community facilities\u2019 and as such protection of cultural interests is not specifically mentioned in the NPPF. This is an issue which the Alliance and Alliance members have been working hard to address.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Baroness McIntosh (Lab) recommended \u2018the language of the national planning policy framework might be strengthened to give a little more than just a nod in the direction of cultural institutions\u2019 and Lord Davies (Lab) concurred that with the Cultural Olympiad round the corner the Government should be \u2018more positive about this aspect with regard to planning\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viscount Clancarty (Crossbench) highlighted the Communities and Local Government Select Committee&#8217;s recommendation that the NPPF should adopt a more inclusive definition of sustainable development, \u2018particularly considering that culture has previously been defined in planning policy as one of the four main components of sustainable growth, alongside economics, social inclusion and environment\u2019. Lord Brooke (Con) reminded the CLG Minister Baroness Hanham (Con) that she had \u2018rejected certain amendments to the Localism Bill which included culture and heritage in this context\u2019 and\u00a0asked if she had \u2018an inkling that this subject may be returned to quite frequently in the future\u2019 \u2013 an inkling the Minister affirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Baroness Hanham told the House \u2018there are questions about the interpretation of sustainable development, and that issue is being looked at with regard to the result of the consultation that has just taken place.\u2019 She confirmed the Government aimed to publish the final NPPF by the end of March, if not earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/lords\/?id=2012-01-23a.799.6&amp;s=heritage#g802.1\" target=\"_blank\">LINK <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Alliance has provided an update on discussions in the House of Lords around the NPPF. &nbsp; Heritage Alliance writes: In a lively exchange in the Lords on Monday (23 January), Peers urged the Government to show its commitment to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=3673\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3673","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\/3673","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=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}