HES – Managing Change in the Historic Environment: Windows

Managing Change is a series of non-statutory guidance notes about managing change in the historic environment. They explain how to apply Government policies.

This guidance note sets out the principles that apply to altering the windows of historic buildings. It should inform planning policies and the determination of applications relating to the historic environment.

HES – Managing Change in the Historic Environment: Windows

EuroMed 2018 Conference – Call for Papers

The 7th biannual  European-Mediterranean (EUROMED)  conference brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals, fellows and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning Cultural Heritage today. In particular, the main goal of the conference is to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies for the protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the Cultural Heritage contents. At the same time, the event is intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, owners, managers and conservators of our cultural patrimony.

Cyprus, 29 Oct – 3 Nov, 2018

Have your say on the future priorities of the Heritage Lottery Fund

How would you like us to help people across the UK explore, enjoy and protect the heritage they care about over the next five years? What should the Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) role be; how should we prioritise our funding; and to what extent can heritage help our neighbourhoods and our society?

Our online consultation about our next Strategic Funding Framework for 2019-2024 is now open, so if you think you can help us answer these questions, now is the time to speak up.

For more information on the consultation see here.

Law Commission Consultation on Reform pf Planning Law in Wales now Open

Please see this link to the Law Commission’s consultation paper on reform of planning law in Wales, which is open until 1 March 2018. I would like to draw your attention to Chapter 13 (p.273-311) in particular as this relates to works affecting listed buildings and conservation areas. The paper includes a recommendation that a unified consent regime is introduced to cover planning permission, conservation area consent and listed building consent.
Although the paper only relates to Wales, it is likely that any changes introduced will have ramifications in future for the consent regimes in other parts of the UK. It is therefore important that the views of the professional bodies and other organisations with an interest in the historic environment, irrespective of which part of the UK they operate in, are properly represented.