REVIT Heritage Report.pdf

Torfaen County Borough Council
REVIT: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Assets on Brownfield Sites
3.7.6 In addition the Department of Architecture and Heritage Services (SDAP,
Services Départementaux de L'architecture et du Patrimoine) provides regional
advice to the ministry for Culture and Communication. There is an SDAP
located in each prefecture in France, and in the Pays de la Loire it is situated
within Nantes, the principal town, under the authority of the prefect.
3.7.7 The SDAP acts as the State representative in the management of the setting
of protected historic monuments, safeguarded sectors, classified sites and
conservation areas. They also deal with the maintenance and restoration of
historic buildings grants, and deliver advice on all the projects affecting the
setting of protected historic buildings and sites.
3.7.8 The SDAP have three principal functions:
• they advise the local authority on the promotion of architecture and town
planning quality;
• they deliver reports on all the projects which affect historic areas in order to
maintain or enhance these areas; and
• they preserve historic buildings placed under their responsibility and ensure
the control of construction work to protected historic buildings.
3.7.9 The Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DRAC, Direction Régionale des
Affaires Culturelles), which is the representative of the Ministry for the Culture
in each of the 22 regions. DRAC is in charge of the regional implementation of
heritage services and offers scientific or technical advice and is responsible for
initiating the heritage protection procedure.
3.7.10 DRAC also produces an inventory for historic monuments, archaeological sites
which provides decision-makers with a management tool for urban
development. Within each DRAC, an architectural advisor is responsible for
coordinating regional policies for the implementation of Heritage Protection
Zones (ZPPAUPs) (See below).
3.7.11 In the regions the archaeology sub-directorate is implemented by the Service
Regional de l’Archeologie (SRA). The Regional Curator for Archaeology
heads the SRA and manages a team of curators, researchers and technicians
as well as the Carte Archeologique (database of Sites and Monuments)
Legislation: The protection of historic monuments
3.7.12 The national Town and Country Planning Code (code de l’urbanisme) is based
on the existing land plans (plan local d’urbanisme, PLU), and the former Land
Use Plans (plan d’occupation des sols, POS). The aim of the Town Planning
documents are to restrict, where necessary, the use of Greenfield space and to
provide for the protection of, among other things, archaeological sites, urban
areas, the environment and landscapes.
3.7.13 The Land Use Plans (POS) can provide special regulations to protect parts of
towns, monuments, streets, sites and may lay down very precise rules relating
to town planning and the built environment. A Decree of 1986, created the
protection of Natural Zones (ND zones), within the Land Use Plans (POS), and
this has been extended to include sites of historic and archaeological interest.
3.7.14 Each commune may issue planning permission and demolition permits,
provided that they have an approved POS. However, in the case of
communes which do not have a POS, for instance in rural areas, the state
retains these powers.
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