7th February 2012, 04:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 7th February 2012, 07:41 PM by kevin wooldridge.)
Wax Wrote:Ahh but what are the "statutory" obligations? A planning policy statement is stronger than planning policy guidance but are either of them "statutory"? The legislation applies to scheduled monuments and listed buildings not the more general "heritage assets".
HE2.1 Regional and local planning authorities should ensure that they have evidence
about the historic environment and heritage assets in their area and that this is
publicly documented. The level of detail of the evidence should be proportionate
and sufficient to inform adequately the plan-making process.
HE2.2 Local planning authorities should either maintain or have access to a historic
environment record.6
HE2.3 Local planning authorities should use the 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.
In that's it as good as we are ever going to get (and on the understanding that NPPF will enshrine PPS5) I am guessing that using the word should in all the examples quoted is as close to statutory as makes no difference....
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