{"id":9221,"date":"2014-12-27T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2014-12-19T19:22:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T19:22:05","slug":"ihbcs-guest-blog-for-htf-newsletter-on-docents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9221","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Guest Blog\u2019 for HTF Newsletter: On \u2018docents\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In the Historic Towns Forum\u2019s December <em>Newsletter<\/em> IHBC Director Sean O&#8217;Reilly outlines how the American volunteer training or \u2018docent\u2019 model might operate in UK heritage planning, outlining a scheme that has helped secure a \u00a35000 research funding allocation in Oxford University to test the concept in real planning environments<\/span>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on a presentation to an HTF Neighbourhood Planning event in Oxford, in the HTF <em>Newsletter<\/em> Sean O\u2019Reilly suggests that: \u2018A \u2018game-changer\u2019 in the planning process \u2013 particularly, but not only for heritage &#8211; would be offering wider support and public recognition for appropriately qualified, informed and skilled local volunteers working in and with the local community on planning-related matters.<\/p>\n<p>Such skilled volunteers should be trained and overseen to an extent that would ensure that they could contribute to local planning processes to a standard supported and recognised by all players in development: local interests, public regulators and private developers.\u00a0 That recognition would be underpinned by the collective understanding of their ability to represent local issues fairly, reasonably and with an informed awareness of how the planning system operates as a whole.\u2019<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more details download the Newsletter from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historictownsforum.org\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\">HTF website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8852\" target=\"_blank\">Research programme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the HTF see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historictownsforum.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.historictownsforum.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Historic Towns Forum\u2019s December Newsletter IHBC Director Sean O&#8217;Reilly outlines how the American volunteer training or \u2018docent\u2019 model might operate in UK heritage planning, outlining a scheme that has helped secure a \u00a35000 research funding allocation in Oxford &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9221\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9221","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\/9221","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=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9222,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}