Technical Workshop: Planning for World Heritage Sites – dovetail or disconnect? Bath, 8th March 2017
January 23, 2017
THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS ON PLANNING, PRODUCED BY WORLD HERITAGE UK:
Tickets for this technical workshop are now available HERE
DRAFT PROGRAMME FOR 8TH MARCH 2017
Planning for World Heritage Sites – dovetail or disconnect?
MORNING SESSION – HOW DO THE UK’s PLANNING SYSTEMS WORK?
10.00 Introduction
10.15 Overview of the planning systems (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland), to include:
- planning policy and development management
- who makes decisions about what
- the underlying philosophy of the planning approach to development
10.30 Planning policy at national and local levels, to include, for each level:
- why planning policies are important for World Heritage
- where to find planning policies on World Heritage
- what policies exist already?
- can policies be totally prescriptive?
- who makes policies – the roles of civil servants/local authority officers and ministers/elected local authority members
- how to influence decision makers
11.00 Questions
11.10 Coffee
11.25 How decisions on development proposals are made, to include:
- o Who makes decisions – the roles of local authority officers and members, central government inspectors and ministers
- o How decisions are made
- o What planners need to know when making decisions
- o How to influence decision makers
- o Heritage impact Assessment
- o OUV and “significance” – lessons from the Chacewater, Cornwall appeal decision
12.10 Decisions that threaten World Heritage Status, to include:
- the role of the State Party
- which Government departments do what
- who advises the World Heritage Committee?
- the role of ICOMOS
- how is the decision for Reactive Monitoring made?
- what is the process of Reactive Monitoring?
12.40 Questions
1.00 Lunch and group photo
AFTERNOON SESSION – WORKSHOP SESSIONS TO IDENTIFY ISSUES AND IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED
The aim of the afternoon session is to identify what is going well and what needs to be improved and is everyone’s opportunity to have their say. It will be split into two parts, first looking at national issues and then local government issues, and to hear about some specific examples.
1.30 Introduction
1.40 National and international issues
Possible issues to discuss
- are the overall planning systems fit for purpose in relation to World Heritage?
- is anyone monitoring the effectiveness of the planning systems?
- are national policies sufficiently robust?
- are World Heritage Sites sufficiently valued?
- how can state reporting and the Reactive monitoring process be improved?
2.40 Local issues
Possible issues to discuss:
- is anyone monitoring the effectiveness of the planning systems?
- are local policies sufficiently robust?
- are World Heritage Sites sufficiently valued?
3.40 Summing up and closing remarks, to include:
- summary of gaps/suggestions from workshop sessions
- next steps, including production of a position paper
4.00 Close and depart