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Heritage Law Update
This briefing note identifies the principal changes to the Heritage Protection Regime since May 2010 and lists those proposals which are intended to be implemented shortly. Readers seeking a comprehensive review of the current system are referred to the English Heritage ‘Guide to Heritage Protection in England’ which is a helpful on-line source. This note relates specifically to the situation in England.

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Heritage Law Update
This briefing note identifies the principal changes to the Heritage Protection Regime since May 2010 and lists those proposals which are intended to be implemented shortly. Readers seeking a comprehensive review of the current system are referred to the English Heritage ‘Guide to Heritage Protection in England’ which is a helpful on-line source. This note relates specifically to the situation in England.

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Community Engagement Update
Effective community and stakeholder engagement, involvement can bring real benefits in terms of promoting, managing and regenerating heritage. But specialist skills are required to do it properly. Where community engagement is undertaken without such skills, it is often tokenistic or ineffective and can have damaging consequences.

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Planning for Growth in Historic Towns and Cities - National Planning Policy Framework

Following on from the successful conference of the same name, the Historic Towns Forum and Terence O'Rourke Ltd have now released this companion publication.

This guide should be of interest and help to anyone working with the NPPF and the historic built environment. The report highlights, and proposes some solutions to, issues that arise in terms of planning and growth in historically sensitive areas.

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Planning for Growth in Historic Towns and Cities - National Planning Policy Framework

Following on from the successful conference of the same name, the Historic Towns Forum and Terence O'Rourke Ltd have now released this companion publication.

This guide should be of interest and help to anyone working with the NPPF and the historic bult environment. The report highlights, and proposes some solutions to, issues that arise in terms of planning growth in historically sensitive areas.

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This guide sets out to help historic towns and other sensitive destinations coexist with tourism, an industry with a turnover of £30 billion, contributing four per cent of the GNP and supporting close on one and a half million jobs.  The underlying theme throughout this guide is the need to reconcile these very real benefits with the impact on the environment and the host community.  The visitor has not been forgotten either: happy visitors, who take away treasured memories of a place, are a sign of a successful and well managed industry.  Without attention to the needs of hosts, visitors and the environment, tourism's continued grwoth may not be sustainable into the next century. 

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An HTF project in conjunction with The Prince’s Regeneration Trust and 4th year UWE architecture and planning student Heidi Tremlett, has produced a useful guidance leaflet to show how historic home owners can reduce CO2 emissions in their homes.

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This Report is produced at a time when there is growing interest in the need to protect the natural environment and this has been reflected in a number of new Governmental initiatives and regulations. 

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This booklet is still relevant to todays conservationists, developers and retailers concerned with maintaining quality in the town centre environment. 

Produced at a time of growing concern over the quality of the town centre environment, with increasing competition from highly accessible out-of-town shopping centres, it has become more and more important that the traditional town centre should be attractive and project an image of quality.  As town centres contain a greater variety of speciality shops as well as a good deal of architectural and historic interest, they have potentially more to offer than out of town centres.  Emphasis on good quality design, including the design of shopfronts and advertisements, will encourage investment and spending and will bring rewards which will ultimately benefit all of the traders in the centre.

Shopfronts and Advertisments in Historic Towns sets out the principles of good shopfront design.  It recognises and accepts that companies have invested a great deal to promote their own corporate images, while asking retailers to recognise that historic towns also invest a great deal in their own historic buildings and on the quality of their environment.

This document is intended to act as a forum for discussion and co-operation between local authorities and retailers, with the ultimate aim of improving the environmental quality of traditional shopping centres.

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