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Marine Historic Environment Consultation Paper
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Welsh Assembly Government, the Scottish Executive and the Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland have jointly published a consultation paper on the marine historic environment. This paper sets out the key issues and questions in relation to marine historic environment designation.
The proposals in this paper seek to provide:
- a positive approach to managing the marine historic environment, which will be transparent, inclusive, effective and sustainable and central to social, environmental and economic agendas at a local as well as national level; and
- a legislative framework that protects the marine historic environment but enables appropriate management techniques to be applied and to evolve.
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This consultation follows on from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's consultation paper "Protecting our historic environment: Making the system work better" (July 2003) and the Welsh Assembly Government's "Protection of Historical Assets in Wales" (September 2003). These papers set out ideas for improving the system for protecting buildings, above and below ground archaeology and other land-based heritage assets, in England and Wales respectively, and promised a further consultation paper about the marine historic environment.
The proposals outlined in this marine consultation paper seek close integration with both the land-based consultations mentioned above. However, unlike these land-based consultations, the nature of the legal structure for the marine historic environment has required this consultation to cover the whole of the United Kingdom.
The Department welcomes comments and the consultation period has been extended until 30 July 2004.
Written comments on the questions asked in the consultation paper should be sent by 30 July 2004 to:
Eve Trueman/James Burke
Architecture and Historic Environment Division
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
2-4 Cockspur Street
London SW1Y 5DH
Tel: 020 7211 2349/2357
Or e-mail mhe@culture.gsi.gov.uk
Copies of all responses will be sent to all the heritage agencies.
Please note comments may be made available for public scrutiny unless a respondent requests otherwise.
If you have any questions or complaints about the process of consultation on this paper, please contact Simon Cooper, Consultation Co-ordinator, Strategy, Policy and Delivery Division, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5DH, simon.cooper@culture.gov.uk
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