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HERITAGE

GENERAL

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  A key objective (1 of 3) of European policy is the conservation of natural resources and cultural heritage (European Spatial Development Perspective – para 18).
  
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  Protect and enhance the natural and historic environment for the benefit of our own and future generations (The Historic environment: A force for our future para 9)(PPS1 paragraph 5, 17, 27(xi)).
  
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  Natural and historic environments with national and international designations should receive the highest level of protection (PPS1 paragraph 17).
  
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  The Governments overarching aim is that the historic environment and its heritage assets should be conserved and enjoyed for the quality of life they bring to this and future generations: to achieve this the objectives for planning are:
  
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    To deliver sustainable development by ensuring that policies and decisions concerning the historic environment recognise that heritage assets are a non-renewable resource; take account of wider social, cultural, economic and environmental benefits of heritage conservation; and recognise that intelligently managed change may sometimes be necessary if heritage assets are to be maintained for the long term.
    
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    To conserve England’s heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their significance by ensuring that: decisions are based on the nature and extent and level of that significance, wherever possible, heritage assets are put to an appropriate and viable use; the positive contribution of assets to local character and sense of pace is recognised; and consideration of the historic environment is integrated into planning policies.
    
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    To contribute to our knowledge and understanding of our past by ensuring that opportunities are taken to capture evidence from the historic environment and to make this publicly available, particularly where a heritage asset is to be lost. (PPS5 para 7)
    
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  Local authorities have a pivotal role in protecting and managing the NW’s historic environment and ensuring it makes the fullest possible contribution to local quality of life (NW Best Practice Design Guide p.21)
  
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  Recognise and protect Greater Manchester’s historic environment as a feature of national and regional importance which merits special consideration in planning policy (Conservation in GM p.65)
  
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  Promote best practice with regard to development which affects the historic environment (Conservation in GM p.72).
  
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  Integrate transport, traffic management and land use planning policies to protect and enhance the historic environment (Conservation in GM p.69)
  

HERITAGE AND EVIDENCE

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  Local planning authorities should use evidence to assess the type, numbers, distribution, significance and condition of heritage assets and the contribution that they may make to their environment now and in the future. It should also be used to help predict the likelihood that currently unidentified heritage assets, particularly sites of historic and archaeological interest, will be discovered in the future (PPS5 para HE2.3)
  
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  LPAs should consider how they can best monitor the impact of their planning policies and decision on the historic environment paying particular attention to the degree to which individual or groups of heritage assets are at risk of loss or decay, how they expect this will change over time and how they propose to respond (PPS5 para HE5.1)
  

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