Planning for Heritage Dave Chetwyn Managing Director, Urban Vision Enterprise CIC / D 2 H Land Planning Development Chair, Board of the National Planning Forum
Introduction
Planning for Heritage Understanding Heritage Heritage Plans and Strategies Character, Design, Change Heritage Professional Practice
Understanding Heritage
National Policy
Heritage Planning Evidence Base The heritage resource Use and use trends Condition, risk and other issues Socio-economic context Property economy Viability (towns, settlements, urban, rural)
Local Economies Balanced land economy Land inflation and affordability (e.g.) London Employment and housing economy discrepancies (e.g. Cornwall) Low land value: offices and housing to cheap to be viable
Town and City Centres
RTPI England s Greatest Place (2015)
Liverpool (1980s) Debate on Managed Decline
Albert Dock - Heritage as a Catalyst
Area Regeneration Planned and Unplanned
Heritage Plans and Strategies
Swale Heritage Strategy
Professional Practice Gloucester Heritage Strategy
Lowestoft Neighbourhood Plan
Blandford Forum - Housing
Character, Design, Change
Local Distinctiveness: Building Vernacular
Polite Architecture
Local Distinctiveness: National and International Influences
Contextual Design
Local Distinctiveness: Townscape
Professional Practice Contextual Design and Change
Gloucester: New Development
Professional Practice Liverpool Waters
It cannot be, it has gone! They believe that we can do the same work in the same spirit as our forefathers whereas for good and for evil we are completely changed and we cannot do the work they did. All continuity of history means is perpetual change, and it is not hard to see that we have changed with a vengeance, and thereby established our claim to be the continuers of history.
Heritage Professional Practice
Conservation Professional Practice Principles
Scope of Professional Practice Narrow focus on significance Heritage seen in cultural terms View of conservation as a generic activity Change and development seen as a threat protectionist Focus on buildings and sites Focus on wider values of heritage utility, economic, etc. Heritage in wider social, economic and environmental context Understanding of conservation as a multi-disciplinary activity Enabling and delivering change and growth. Focus on places, including spaces, townscape, spatial quality.
Values: Utility Values Investment Values Economic Values Community Values Environmental Values Cultural Values Special Interest Owners/Occupiers: Fit for purpose Viable Comfortable Convenient Safe Accessible Sustainable Making Judgments Context: Physical Infrastructure Physical constraints Site/building conditions Context: Socio-economic Local economy (viability) Demographic Demand and need Context: Place Townscape and character Architecture and buildings Historical Resources: Budget Funding Business model Legislation: Planning - general Planning - heritage Other heritage Highways Health and safety Environmental health Building regulations Access Fire Other: Sustainable development Economic development Regeneration Community Climate change
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