PreviewAutumn 2007

Nigel ClubbDirector, NMR

HERITAGEG A T E W A Y

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

Heritage Protection White Paper

• Simple, clear, accessible system

• Partnership and wider engagement

• Supporting enhanced local delivery

• All National Assets to be recorded in the new register

• Electronically delivered, linked to HERs and e-planning.

Heritage Protection White PaperNew Register

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

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

Heritage Protection White PaperHistoric Environment Records

• 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

Heritage Protection White PaperEnhanced Local Delivery – Local Authorities 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

Heritage Protection White PaperEnhanced Local Delivery –English Heritage Responsibilities-

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.

Two Tier System of Records

• National– Designations– NMR information and archives

Local– HERs

National RegisterHERs

NMR Archive and Inventory

National RegisterHERsNMR Archive

and Inventory

UK

Libraries Museums ADS

Environment Planning

Bibliographies Property OwnersSpecialist/voluntary

databased

Europe/International

What is it?

A 5-year collaborative project to build a Heritage Gateway or portal to historic environment records in England

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

National Designations Unified R H B S E

• Listed Buildings

• Scheduled Monuments

• Historic Parks & Gardens

• Battlefields

• Conservation areas

• World Heritage Sites

• Marine historic assets

Forthcoming NMR projects

• Archives Online

• Digitised aerial photography

Benefits

• Users want cross-searching national/local

• Partnership - Audience development, promotion, standards

• Focus minds on proper roles and responsibilities

• Relatively inexpensive to join

HERs on the Gateway

• Essex

• Cambridgeshire

• Norfolk

• Somerset

CostsVia exeGesIS (Web link to HER’s 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

@ daily rate of £325• Data deposited with ADS and web service built = 2-3 days’ work @

daily rate of £325

Via other methods:• To be assessed on a case-by-case basis

(NB All figures subject to VAT where applicable)

HERITAGE GATEWAY

• Need for wide engagement with the sector

• EH committed to working with HERs

• Days like this are the start of the process