Programme Welcome and Introduction – The Vision in the White Paper Breakout group discussion – Key Aspects of the White Paper Experts’ perspectives followed by questions and discussion – Lunch – Working Groups: 1. Designation: What do we protect and how? 2. Designation: How the system will work 3. Heritage Protection and Planning 4. Historic Environment services at local level Break: 15 minutes – Answering the DCMS’ specific questions – Discussion: Points emerging from the day Summary and Final Comments Close

The Vision in the White Paper  Does this add up to a sufficient and coherent vision to protect the UK’s heritage?  What will help put this vision into practice?  What will stop this vision from being put into practice?  What capacity gaps in the voluntary sector will need to be filled?

Dave Chetwyn Vice Chair The Institute of Historic Building Conservation

 The wider social, economic, environmental context  Matters for other ministries  Local designations  Resources  Skills

Matthew Slocombe Deputy Secretary Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

Implications for Casework  Single Designation System and Register A single system for national designation to replace listing, scheduling and registering.  Consents and Streamlining We will streamline regulation by merging Listed Building Consent and Scheduled Monument Consent, and by consulting on the merging of Conservation Area Consent with planning permission. We will introduce greater flexibility into the system through new statutory management agreements for historic sites. Ecclesiastical exemption will continue under the new system We will consult on the scope to reduce uncertainty and ensure early consideration of heritage issues through a greater role for pre-application discussion.  Extension of Protection We will clarify and strengthen protections for World Heritage Sites. We will provide local planning authorities with new tools to protect locally designated buildings  Inadequately covered items English Heritage will implement a new programme of training, support and capacity building for local authorities and local heritage organisations {Without] appropriate protections we will deprive ourselves and future generations of access to our heritage [The current heritage protection system is] …supported by hundreds of thousands of volunteers

Dr Mike Heyworth Director, Council for British Archaeology

The Archaeology Forum welcomes proposals to Unify the listing of buildings, scheduling of monuments, registration of parks, gardens and battlefields into a single designation regime, including World Heritage Sites Integrate Listed Building and Scheduled Monument consents into a single, streamlined heritage consent system, determined at local level Expand designation to include the sites of early human activity without structures Enhance protection of archaeological sites under cultivation Enhance local historic environment services by introducing a statutory requirement for local authorities to have access to Historic Environment Records Work towards an effective UK-wide marine heritage protection system, linked in with proposals contained within the Marine White Paper

The White Paper: Section 1 Working Groups: 1.1 Designation: What do we protect and how? 1.2 Designation: How the system will work 1.3 Heritage Protection and Planning 1.4 Historic Environment services at local level

DCMS: Question 1 Should Conservation Area Consent be removed as a specific consent and merged with planning permission? The merger would be combined with amendments to the Demolition Direction to ensure planning permission would be required for the demolition of an unlisted building in a Conservation Area and amendments to the General Permitted Development Order to reinstate levels of protection pre-Shimizu. Dave Chetwyn, Vice Chair, IHBC

DCMS: Question 1 Statutory implications Implications for practice Accessibility and understanding

DCMS: Question 2 As a means of promoting early consideration of heritage issues in large scale developments, should there be new statutory guidance promoting pre-application assessment and discussion for all major planning applications which may affect historic assets? Catherine Croft, Director, Twentieth Century Society

DCMS: Question 3 As a means of providing greater certainty to developers, should the current operation of Certificates of Immunity be expanded to enable an application to be made at any time and for a site as well as an individual building? Joseph Mirwitch, Trustee, Twentieth Century Society

DCMS: Question 3 1. The present position – Section 6 LB&CA Act Cause for concern: outcomes and C20 casework examples opaqueness – inadequate consultations - inappropriate process The flawed application of a reasonable provision? 2. The proposal (‘Reducing uncertainty’ Para. 44) ‘Entire sites’ – not specific buildings ‘At any time’ – not specific to a development proposal The implications : a problematic system expanded? 3. A way forward? Striking an appropriate balance Proper process and minimal necessary safeguards. Can the proposed expansion be compatible with the proper protection of historic assets?

Key Points What do we welcome as a sector in the White Paper? What is missing from the White Paper? What implications are there for the voluntary heritage sector, particularly in terms of capacity?