AMENDED DRAFT: Local Planning Policy 34 - Management of Heritage Places
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The Town is embarking on preparing a new Heritage Framework which includes:
1. A new Local Planning Policy (LPP) setting out how to manage heritage listed places that propose development;
2. A revised Local Heritage Survey (LHS) to replace the current Municipal Inventory; and
3. A revised heritage list.
Local Heritage Survey - (Previously Municipal Inventory- MI) identifies and records places that have a level of heritage significance. The significance of a heritage place is determined by assessing a place against various heritage values (see FAQ’s for detail). A management category of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 is assigned to a place, with category 1 being the highest level of significance. A Local Heritage survey is an ‘information only’ document and does not have any legal powers.
The Towns Revised Heritage List – The new Local Heritage Survey informs which heritage places in the Town are of the most significant by the assigned category. The Town proposes to include those places with a category 1, 2 and 3 on the Town’s Heritage List. The Town’s Heritage List is afforded legal powers under the Planning and Development Act 2005 (see FAQ’s for more detail).
Local Planning Policy 34 – Management of Heritage Places (LPP34) – The local planning policy has been developed to protect heritage places from development that have potential to impact on the values of a heritage places. Common aspects of development likely to adversely impact heritage places have been identified, with guidance and tools provided on how the Town expects you to avoid them.
The LPP also outlines the Town’s expectations with regard to information provided with a development application. This is to enable the Town to adequately assess what measures have been put in place to ensure that impacts of development have minor impact our most valued heritage places in the Town.
In late 2022, the Town appointed a specialist heritage consultant, Element Advisory and the project was launched in November 2022. The following updates inform of the process undertaken to date.
*Please note, engagement on the development of this framework has occurred in different stages. Inline with our processes to engage within statutory requirements for advertising Local Planning Policies, separate project pages were created here on Your Say for the LPP34 and the heritage list and survey. Both project pages are linked so you can easily navigate between the two. Find the link on the right hand side of this project page under 'Related Projects' or click on the link below.
