CHAMP PROGRESS REPORT HA Environment Group March 2010 Cultural Heritage Asset Management Plans HA and Service Providers Briefing CHAMP TRAINING.

CHAMP PROGRESS REPORT

HA Environment Group March 2010

Cultural Heritage Asset Management Plans

HA and Service Providers Briefing

CHAMP TRAINING

What’s happening today?CoffeeWelcome Jay Carver and Antonia GlydeContext Antonia GlydeSession 1 Background and history. David FrekeBreakSession 2 Introduction to CHAMPs. Elisa Fariselli Session 3 Preparing the Management Plan Report. Leonora O’BrienDiscussionLunchSession 4 Inventory data collection and management. Andy CoppDiscussion. Jay Carver

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Objectives for the dayBy the end of the day attendees should be able to:

• appreciate the significance of cultural heritage assets for the HA, and why we need to manage them

• whose responsibility it is to implement CHAMPs and your role

• who to go to for help

• know what a CHAMP looks like

• be able to access the cultural heritage layer in EnvIs on HAGIS

• know what level of expertise may be required to prepare a CHAMP, and what to do with it

• know what all those acronyms stand for

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Gestation of CHAMPS1999 Gleam in Antonia’s eye

2001 Draft DMRB10 CHMP Guidance

2002 A38 Pilot commissioned

2003 Delivery of A38 Pilot

2003 Dept Culture Media & Sport Protocol published

2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 agreements in principle to fund database collection

2007 CHE and IAN 100/07 published

2008 DMRB10 CHAMP Guidance published

2009-10 cultural heritage database compiled in EnvIS

2009 Area 7 Pilot commissioned

2010 Area 7 Pilot delivered

2010 Training

2010 ---- MACs/DBFO Co.s deliver CHAMPs

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Background and history of CHAMPsDavid Freke EG

1.32pm 14th Dec 2006

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EH HA Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

Points to cover

What Cultural Heritage is

Legislation and Policy Background

Impacts on HA Business

Why we need CHAMPs

Next steps

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What is “cultural heritage”? ‘…a group of resources inherited from the past

which people identify, independently of

ownership, as a reflection and expression of their constantly evolving values, beliefs, knowledge and traditions. It includes all aspects of the environment resulting from the interaction between people and places through time.’

DMRB 11 definition following the Council of Europe, Framework

Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for

Society (Faro 2005)

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Range of cultural heritage

• Archaeological Remains

• Historic Buildings

• Historic Landscape

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Policy, Legislation and Guidance

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International Conventions UNESCO Convention on the Protection of World Heritage -

World Heritage Sites, eg Stonehenge, Hadrian’s Wall, Bath,

European Cultural Convention (1954) - all types of cultural assets.

European Convention on the Protection of the

Architectural Heritage (1985) - historic buildings.

European Convention on the Protection of the

Archaeological Heritage (1992) – archaeological remains.

European Landscape Convention (2000) – historic landscapes.

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LegislationAncient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979Highways Act 1980Heritage Act 1983Planning (Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings) Act 1990Treasure Act 1996Hedgerow Regulations 1997Highways (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations

2007 Planning Act 2008Forthcoming Heritage Protection legislation and regulations

c. 2010 ….?

(Not, you immediately notice, the Town and Country Planning Acts …)

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Government Policy

PPG15 Planning and the Historic Environment (1994)

PPG16 Archaeology and Planning (1990)

The HA adheres to the guidance in these documents (so far as legislative differences allow) and relies upon them in Public Inquiries etc. and incorporates them in HA advice documents

These PPGs will require complete revision, as will the elements that rely on them in HA advice. Planning Policy Statement PPS15 (in draft) will replace both PPGs.

The HA signed a Memorandum of Understanding with English Heritage in 2006 which ratified these commitments

English Heritage published Heritage At Risk in 2008, updated each year, and it contains assets owned by the HA

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Care of Government owned cultural heritage assetsThe mandatory Protocol for the Care of the Government’s Historic Estate

(2003 DCMS) requires all govt. departments and agencies to: • nominate a conservation officer

• use consultants and contractors with appropriate expertise

• commission regular condition surveys

• develop site-specific management guidance

• implement a planned programme of repairs and maintenance

• protect buildings at risk

• safeguard historic buildings that are in course of disposal

• comply with the non-statutory notification procedures for Crown bodies

• ensure that the design quality of any new work enhances the historic environment

• prepare quadrennial conservation reports

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HA StrategyA New Deal for Transport: “better stewardship of the

nation’s cultural … heritage”

Transport 2010 The 10 Year Plan: “a transport system that makes less impact on the environment”

Aim: “To contribute to sustainable development”

Objective: “To minimise the impact of the trunk road network on both the natural ands built environment”

Cultural heritage: “To ensure trunk road projects incorporate an appropriate response to any effects on the historic environment, and respect the historic fabric of our landscape

Highways Agency’s Strategic Plan 1998:

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HA Policies and commitmentsHA Business Plan 2009-10“…. This year we will update our guidance on design solutions

for archaeology, historic landscape and built heritage [DMRB10] and complete the population of the cultural heritage database and commence the development of cultural heritage management plans across all areas”

HA Network Management Manual: Soft estate routine maintenance includes cultural heritage, with ref. to IAN 84/07 (EnvIS)

HA Routine and Winter Service Code: defect definitions include damage to the environment, and situations “liable to leave the SoS in breach of one or more of his statutory duties”. Identification and verification of defects or lack of them is a duty for the Service Provider

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HA guidance and standards documents

DMRB vol 10. Environmental Design. Section 1 and 2 will include a requirement for Environment Management Plans (March 2010).

(Archaeology Section 6 revised 2000, CHAMP Guidance added 2007)

DMRB vol 11 Environmental Assessment (Cultural Heritage section revised 2007)

Assessing the Effect of Road Schemes on Historic Landscape Character (2007)

IAN 84/07 EnvIS Guidance

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Why do we need CHAMPs?• because our roads affect cultural heritage assets

• because cultural heritage costs the HA a significant amount, and efficient management will reduce costs

HA business and cultural heritage

How do we affect cultural heritage?

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Scope of HA activities affecting cultural heritageMajor Projects

Local Network Management Schemes

Maintenance

Technical Projects

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Major ProjectsA64 Scampston, Yorks. Grade II Listed Bridge, Grade I Listed mansion, Grade II* Registered Capability Brown Park.

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Local Network Management Schemes

These smaller schemes may have significant effects on cultural heritage:

A45 Ryton Junction – major excavation at short notice, dispute with County Archaeologist, and EH intervention. Successful outcome.

A45 Ryton Junction

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Maintenance (i)Routine maintenance and management has the potential to affect cultural heritage assets, eg:

historic bridge repairs

ditch cleaning

vegetation control

A38 Milestone Cornwall

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18th century Listed Grade II building, whose dilapidated condition was brought to HA’s attention by local authority.

Maintenance (ii)

A556 Sandiways, Cheshire Gatehouse Tower

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Maintenance (iii)

A1 Water Newton. Cambridge-shire, site of 57 Roman burials found in ditch cleaning

Scheduled Monument

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What if cultural heritage issues are not effectively managed?

HA can be held to account, legally and financially, for condition of protected assets,

HA incurs unnecessary project costs and delays

HA risks unnecessary friction with stakeholders and statutory advisors

HA unable efficiently to manage its estate,

Loss of credibility

Ministerial embarrassment

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Good News

M63 Stretford. 19th century Listed Grade II dovecot dismantled and reconstructed in Walkden Gardens, Sale.

M5 Croombe Park. Siting of VMS and bund to maintain historic views.

Where we are

A completed Level 1 Inventory loaded onto HAGIS

Level 2 data collected and ready for upload to HAGIS

Guidance published in DMRB 10 and IAN 84/07

A model CHAMP prepared by Area 7

Enhanced entry to 2010 Government’s Historic Estate Unit report

Next Steps

Uploading Level 2 into HAGIS

DMRB 10 Section 1 and 2 EnvIS Guidance and Go Live

Proposed HA Heritage Report

Roll out CHAMPs by all MACs, DBFO Co.s

Final word

The HA’s roads themselves are increasingly recognised as potential historic assets, with the 1950s bridges on the M1 considered for listing, and a stretch of the first motorway near Preston being included in Lancashire County Council’s Historic Environment Record.

This will be a challenge for the future.