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HERITAGEG A T E W A Y

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• Autumn 2007
• Nigel Clubb
• Director, NMR

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Heritage Protection White Paper

• What we have sought since Power of Place
• Better tools for the job at national and local
  levels
• Making best practice standard practice
• Mainstreaming historic environment into the heart
  of modern environmental management

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Heritage Protection White Paper

• Simple, clear, accessible system
• Partnership and wider engagement
• Supporting enhanced local delivery

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Heritage Protection White PaperNew Register

• All National Assets to be recorded in the new
  register
• Electronically delivered, linked to HERs and
  e-planning.

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Heritage Protection White PaperStatutory
Historic Environment Records

• Central role in enabling the delivery of a new
  heritage protection system
• Inform the management of the historic environment
  to support sustainable development
• Within the planning system
• Through other management systems, such as
  environmental stewardship scheme

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Heritage Protection White PaperHistoric
Environment Records

• HERS are currently discretionary - maintaining or
  having access to a HER will become statutory.
• They will need to
• Be comprehensive including the full range of
  local designations, contained on indexed
  databases, and making available associated
  reference collections
• Include a linked GIS to help analyse and present
  this information alongside other environmental
  datasets (such as characterisation studies) and
• Be managed by skilled curatorial staff able to
  communicate with diverse audiences
• Be widely accessible via the Planning Portal and
  Heritage Gateway

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Heritage Protection White PaperEnhanced Local
Delivery Local Authorities Responsibilities-

• A single gateway to new Heritage Asset Consent
• To negotiate most HPAs with EH engagement as
  appropriate
• Statutory duty to maintain or have access to a
  Historic Environment Record, linked to Heritage
  Portal to link to other databases and e-planning
• LPAs to be supported by EH guidance on local
  historic environment services, training and
  capacity building, and through new national
  standards

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Heritage Protection White PaperEnhanced Local
Delivery English Heritage Responsibilities-

• Publish new guidance on outcomes local
  authorities should be seeking for historic
  environment services
• Roll out new training to all local authority
  historic environment staff and Historic
  Environment Champions
• Support local authorities in developing and
  improving their HERs through new training and
  capacity building, and new national standards and
  guidance
• Develop the Heritage Gateway electronic portal

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E-planning

• Planning Portal
• Definitive resources for public sector planning
  professional
• Allows local authorities to download planning
  applications structured via the Portal
• PARSOL
• Standards, toolkits, specifications, schemes,
  systems and software to build online planning and
  regulatory systems
• NaPCOL
• National Planning Constraints Online.

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Two Tier System of Records

• National
• Designations
• NMR information and
• archives
• Local
• HERs

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National Register
HERs
NMR Archive and Inventory
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UK
Libraries
Museums
ADS
HERs
National Register
NMR Archive and Inventory
Environment
Planning
Specialist/voluntary databased
Bibliographies
Property Owners
Europe/International
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• What is it?
• A 5-year collaborative project to build a
  Heritage Gateway or portal to historic
  environment records in England

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• Vision
• User feedback access via a single search
  interface
• Heritage Gateway has potential to provide access
  to both NMR and Local Government resources
• Not a substitute for the individual underlying
  resources but an easy and simple way in to them
  that provides the end user with an holistic
  approach
• The whole has the potential to be more than the
  sum of the parts

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National Designations Unified R H B S E

• Listed Buildings
• Scheduled Monuments
• Historic Parks Gardens
• Battlefields
• Conservation areas
• World Heritage Sites
• Marine historic assets

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Forthcoming NMR projects

• Archives Online
• Digitised aerial photography

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Benefits

• Users want cross-searching national/local
• Partnership - Audience development, promotion,
  standards
• Focus minds on proper roles and responsibilities
• Relatively inexpensive to join

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HERs on the Gateway

• Essex
• Cambridgeshire
• Norfolk
• Somerset

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Costs

• Via exeGesIS (Web link to HERs in-house HBSMR
  database)
• One-off HBSMR Gateway linking cost c.3,500
  (500 for images)
• Annual support maintenance cost (data only)
  750 (150 for images)
• Via exeGesIS (Data hosting arrangement)
• Start-up cost 500
• Annual fee 1,000
• Data upload fee 100 per upload
• Via ADS (Data deposition arrangement)
• Web service built for data already deposited with
  ADS 1-2 days work _at_ daily rate of 325
• Data deposited with ADS and web service built
  2-3 days work _at_ daily rate of 325
• Via other methods
• To be assessed on a case-by-case basis
• (NB All figures subject to VAT where applicable)

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HERITAGE GATEWAY

• Need for wide engagement with the sector
• EH committed to working with HERs
• Days like this are the start of the process