REVIT Heritage Report.pdf

Torfaen County Borough Council
REVIT: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Assets on Brownfield Sites
Conservation Policy
3.6.15 Dutch conservation policy consists of several aspects, such as the
identification and listing of heritage sites, of townscapes and rural sites, town
and country planning, legislation for restoration and maintenance works and
their financing and international policy.
3.6.16 The overall policy is no longer focused on restoration, but on the maintenance
of sites and monuments. In the Netherlands there are more than 47,000
monuments listed by the State, of which the major part date from before 1850,
and more than 300 protected townscapes and rural sites. In addition to this,
many monuments (30,000) profit from municipal or provincial protection.
3.6.17 During the last few years, strategies have been developed to preserve the
whole context of a monument, both in space and time, a new challenge that
has to find its place in the ongoing process of spatial planning.
3.7 France
Main Heritage Bodies
3.7.1 Nantes Metropole is located within the region of Pay de la Loire and the
department of Loire Atlantique. In France the Act of 1983 decentralised and
transferred certain Town Planning and development responsibilities to the
communes and they now have exclusive responsibility for drafting their own
town planning documents called Land Use Plans (POS).
3.7.2 The overall responsibility for cultural heritage rests with the Minister for Culture
and national policy is implemented on the minister’s behalf by the Architecture
and Heritage Directorate (DAPA , Direction de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine).
3.7.3 Within the Architecture and Heritage Directorate (DAPA) there are various subdirectorates
which manage their relevant areas. The archaeology subdirectorate
guides archaeological policy and the architecture sub-directorate
co-ordinates the management of landscape and urban areas. A further subdirectorate,
the urban quality and architecture (sous-direction de la qualité des
espaces et de l'architecture) acts as an interface between the heritage
(inventory, archaeology and historic monuments) and aesthetic aspects of the
Directorate. A further sub-directorate for research carries out inventories on
behalf of the entire Heritage Directorate.
3.7.4 At a national level there are also four national specialist bodies which advise
the Minister of Culture on heritage matters. These are:
• the Historic Monuments Board (Commission Supérieure des Monuments
Historiques or CSMH);
• the National Archaeological Research Council (Conseil Supérieur de la
Recherche Archéologique);
• the National Inventory Commission (Commission Nationale de
L'inventaire); and,
• the Ethnological Heritage Council (Conseil du Patrimoine Ethnologique).
3.7.5 The Architecture and Heritage Directorate (DAPA) is advised at a local level by
the Commission of Regional Heritage and Sites (CRPS, Commission
Régionale du Patrimoine et des Sites).
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