A change in short-term Government priorities has
meant that the Heritage Protection Bill, over which so
many bodies, including the Civic Trust, had
worked hard over the past ten years, was dropped from
the Queen's speech, to cross-party disappointment. The
Bill was intended to consolidate and rationalise the
disparate heritage legislation of the last century.
Among those provisions requiring the legislation
were:
- statutory requirement for local authorities
to hold Historic Environment Records, under
one single schedule;
- interim legal protection for buildings being
considered for Listing;
- better protection of archaeological sites which
cannot be scheduled;
- the merging of Conservation Area Consent with
planning Permission;
- Heritage Partnership Agreements to remove the
need for multiple consents for complex sites
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