{"id":43165,"date":"2025-06-10T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43165"},"modified":"2025-06-08T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T16:55:30","slug":"hes-consultation-on-scotlands-protected-historic-places-a-long-term-strategy-for-heritage-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43165","title":{"rendered":"HES consultation on \u2018Scotland&#8217;s protected historic places\u2026 a long-term strategy for heritage designation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot\/++preview++\/heritage\/designations-strategy\/supporting_documents\/Designations%20strategy%20consultation%20paper.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">strategy consultation paper<\/a> and is looking for your views on our strategy for how they identify and legally protect Scotland&#8217;s most important historic sites and places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HES writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heritage designation is the system we use to provide legal recognition and protection for historic sites across Scotland. More than 55,000 sites are currently protected in this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strategy sets out a long-term approach to delivering national-level heritage designations. We set out our vision for designations in 2035, our mission, and priorities for the three-year period 2025-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why your views matter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We want to hear what you think about the proposed content of the strategy and the priorities we have identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will consider all the responses we receive and will use these to inform the final strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How to provide your views<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can provide feedback by completing the <strong>online survey<\/strong> linked below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot\/heritage\/designations-strategy\/consultation\/\">Online Survey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot\/++preview++\/heritage\/designations-strategy\/supporting_documents\/Designations%20strategy%20consultation%20paper.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">strategy consultation paper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot\/heritage\/designations-strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has issued a strategy consultation paper and is looking for your views on our strategy for how they identify and legally protect Scotland&#8217;s most important historic sites and places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,17,18,30,23,9,29,31,16,83,22],"class_list":["post-43165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-building","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-government","tag-heritage","tag-nature","tag-planning","tag-scotland","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43165","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=43165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43166,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43165\/revisions\/43166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}