1. Community Charters and Cultural Heritage
Neighbourhood Plans
Community Charters and Cultural Heritage
Mothiur Rahman

2. What is “cultural heritage”?
The Falkirk Inquiry
Community Values-based planning
Neighbourhood Plans?

3. Creating a Community Charter:
What values, beliefs and aspirations do we share?
What do I enjoy about living here and why?
What are the local places in the landscape that are important to me and why?
When I was considering buying a house here, what did I picture?
How would we like our children to enjoy this place in 20 years’ time?
CBM production here in Falkirk is a concern for me because....'

4. “Our children and that which promotes their wholesome development”
What are our Community’s Assets?
What do we collectively value and need to protect?
“Our children and that which promotes their wholesome development”

5. What are our Community’s Assets?
What do we collectively value and need to protect?
“Our homes as our sanctuary”
“The diversity and stability of our local Ecosystem”

6. Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society
resources inherited from the past a reflection and expression of … constantly evolving values, beliefs, knowledge and traditions all aspects of the environment resulting from the interaction between people and places

7. Is this a “Material Consideration”?
The Development Plan
Environmental Impact Assessment Directive
Draft EIA Directive
Zanoni Amendments
Recital 11: cultural heritage
Recital 12(d): Member States to give guidance

8. Falkirk - Adversarial www.faug.org.uk
Our Cultural Heritage is being harmed ?

9. Common Cause (www.valuesandframes.org)
Community Charters
Consumers v Citizens
Common Cause (
"We are all shaped by our culture.  Culture is a key influence in shaping our view of the world and our sense of responsibilities within it […]”

10. Neighbourhood Plans Building “Evidence Base”
National Planning Policy Framework
Charter as part of “Vision and Aims”?
Sustainability Appraisal – how do the proposals affect our “Cultural Heritage”?

11. Promoting “cultural heritage”
The Falkirk Inquiry
Locally-led “values-based planning”
Neighbourhood Plans?

12. Thank you! Mothiur Rahman