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Heritage Protection White Paper: Enhancing Historic Environment Records

Explore the new register for National Assets, the role of Statutory Historic Environment Records, and the responsibilities of local authorities and English Heritage in preserving and promoting the historic environment. Learn about the development of the Heritage Gateway portal and the benefits of unified national designations.

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Heritage Protection White Paper: Enhancing Historic Environment Records

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  1. HERITAGEGATEWAY Preview Autumn 2007 Nigel Clubb Director, NMR

  2. Heritage Protection White Paper What we have sought since Power of Place: • Better tools for the job at national and local levels • Making best practice standard practice • Mainstreaming historic environment into the heart of modern environmental management

  3. HeritageProtection White Paper • Simple, clear, accessible system • Partnership and wider engagement • Supporting enhanced local delivery

  4. Heritage Protection White PaperNew Register • All National Assets to be recorded in the new register • Electronically delivered, linked to HERs and e-planning.

  5. Heritage Protection White PaperStatutory Historic Environment Records • Central role in enabling the delivery of a new heritage protection system • Inform the management of the historic environment to support sustainable development • Within the planning system • Through other management systems, such as environmental stewardship scheme

  6. Heritage Protection White PaperHistoric Environment Records HERS are currently discretionary - maintaining or having access to a HER will become statutory. They will need to: • Be comprehensive – including the full range of local designations, contained on indexed databases, and making available associated reference collections • Include a linked GIS to help analyse and present this information alongside other environmental datasets (such as characterisation studies); and • Be managed by skilled curatorial staff able to communicate with diverse audiences • Be widely accessible via the Planning Portal and Heritage Gateway

  7. Heritage Protection White PaperEnhanced Local Delivery – Local Authorities Responsibilities- • A single gateway to new Heritage Asset Consent • To negotiate most HPAs with EH engagement as appropriate • Statutory duty to maintain or have access to a Historic Environment Record, linked to Heritage Portal to link to other databases and e-planning • LPAs to be supported by EH guidance on local historic environment services, training and capacity building, and through new national standards

  8. Heritage Protection White PaperEnhanced Local Delivery –English Heritage Responsibilities- • Publish new guidance on outcomes local authorities should be seeking for historic environment services • Roll out new training to all local authority historic environment staff and Historic Environment Champions • Support local authorities in developing and improving their HERs through new training and capacity building, and new national standards and guidance • Develop the Heritage Gateway electronic portal

  9. E-planning • Planning Portal • Definitive resources for public sector planning professional • Allows local authorities to download planning applications structured via the Portal • PARSOL • Standards, toolkits, specifications, schemes, systems and software to build online planning and regulatory systems • NaPCOL – National Planning Constraints Online.

  10. Two Tier System of Records • National • Designations • NMR information and archives Local • HERs

  11. HERs National Register NMR Archive and Inventory

  12. UK Libraries Museums ADS HERs National Register Environment NMR Archive and Inventory Planning Specialist/voluntary databased Bibliographies Property Owners Europe/International

  13. What is it? A 5-year collaborative project to build a Heritage Gateway or portal to historic environment records in England

  14. Vision • User feedback – access via a single search interface • Heritage Gateway has potential to provide access to both NMR and Local Government resources • Not a substitute for the individual underlying resources but an easy and simple way in to them that provides the end user with an holistic approach • The whole has the potential to be more than the sum of the parts

  15. National DesignationsUnifiedR H B S E • Listed Buildings • Scheduled Monuments • Historic Parks & Gardens • Battlefields • Conservation areas • World Heritage Sites • Marine historic assets

  16. Forthcoming NMR projects • Archives Online • Digitised aerial photography

  17. Benefits • Users want cross-searching national/local • Partnership - Audience development, promotion, standards • Focus minds on proper roles and responsibilities • Relatively inexpensive to join

  18. HERs on the Gateway • Essex • Cambridgeshire • Norfolk • Somerset

  19. Costs Via exeGesIS (Web link to HER’s in-house HBSMR database): • One-off ‘HBSMR Gateway’ linking cost = c.£3,500 (+£500 for images) • Annual support & maintenance cost (data only) = £750 (+£150 for images) ViaexeGesIS (Data hosting arrangement): • Start-up cost = £500 • Annual fee = £1,000 • Data upload fee = £100 per upload Via ADS (Data deposition arrangement): • Web service built for data already deposited with ADS = 1-2 days’ work @ daily rate of £325 • Data deposited with ADS and web service built = 2-3 days’ work @ daily rate of £325 Via other methods: • To be assessed on a case-by-case basis (NB All figures subject to VAT where applicable)

  20. HERITAGE GATEWAY • Need for wide engagement with the sector • EH committed to working with HERs • Days like this are the start of the process

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