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Torfaen County Borough Council REVIT: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Assets on Brownfield Sites 3.7.25 The PSMV is considered an excellent instrument for managing historic town centres or districts and for re-development of architectural and urban areas. However, although it is an effective means of protecting and enhancing old parts of towns it only applies to urban areas of major interest. 3.7.26 The PSMV also provides for tax relief on building restoration work undertaken by private landlords, who may form an association for this purpose. 3.7.27 Unfortunately the procedure for setting up a PSMV is a long and complex one, but it does make it possible to carry out a detailed study of the architectural and urban heritage and entails extensive consultation with all the local bodies concerned, including the municipal council. Inventory of historic monuments 3.7.28 Within the Ministry of Culture, the Sub-directorate for Research provides heritage research and produces the General Inventory on behalf of the entire Heritage Directorate. 3.7.29 Within the regional cultural affairs directorates, this function is represented by the regional inventory departments. The General Inventory, established in 1964, comprises a topographical framework covering any buildings erected before 1940, whether private or public, urban or rural, as well as movable objects and thematic or geographical inventory studies. 3.7.30 There are other specific national inventories including of an inventory of pre- 1950 sites of industrial and technical interest, which comprises surviving buildings and machinery from that period. 3.7.31 One specific programme run by the Architecture and Heritage Directorate in co-operation with regional departments relates to engineering landscape structures such as canals and hydraulic constructions, bridges, viaducts, railway tracks and related structures. The project currently covers more than half of regions of France. 3.7.32 The on-going Archaeological Map of France (Carte Archeologique) is the responsibility of the Archaeological Sub-directorate of the Minister of Culture, and records known archaeological sites in France. The most outstanding of these sites have been protected as listed sites or sites on the supplementary inventory under the Historic Monuments Act of 1913. 3.7.33 The inventory of archaeological sites is based on each regional archaeology departments "archaeological map", produced by the relevant DRAC. The various regional departments’ records are extremely variable in coverage. The information was recorded on the DRACAR system, which was replaced at the end 2000 by a new GIS database called PATRIARCH. 3.7.34 These inventories are the basis of the Architecture and Heritage Directorate’s policy on protection under the 1913 Historic Monuments Act and Town and Country planning. They play a part in deciding what must be protected and in assessing the probable implications for regional planning taking into account of the archaeological heritage in town-planning. The overall aim is to supply the state and decision-makers with a management tool as a preliminary to the drawing up of town-planning documents and planning permissions. Conclusion 3.7.35 In conclusion, the entire system for the protection of protected areas (sites included in the supplementary inventory, areas surrounding historic monuments, Heritage Protection Zones (ZPPAUPs) and conservation areas) 0014021/JM/001 13
Torfaen County Borough Council REVIT: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Assets on Brownfield Sites depends on the recommendation or approval of the official architect, which is mandatory for planning permission and demolition permits issued by local authorities. The system is therefore based on a combination of state and local authority powers. 3.7.36 The system of cultural heritage protection in France has a large number of public bodies operating in various specialised areas at national level and a regional level and with the authority of many bodies seemingly overlapping. 3.8 Germany Heritage Bodies 3.8.1 The Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland or BRD) has no full ministry for culture heritage, although conservation and protection of cultural heritage has always been a main element of the Federal Government’s cultural policy and the Federal Government has launched several programmes dedicated to this purpose. 3.8.2 The institutions involved in the protection of cultural heritage in Germany are the: • Permanent Conference of Ministers of Education and Culture of the Federal States (Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder (KMK)) • The German National Committee for Monument Protection (Deutsche Nationalkomitee für Denkmalschutz (DNK) 3.8.3 The KMK deals with issues of general interest in relation to conservation and protection of cultural heritage and facilitate the co-ordination of organisational and administrative issues. In addition representatives of the respective state ministries sit on the relevant committee of the KMK. 3.8.4 The DNK was established in 1973 and is responsible for promoting the interests of cultural heritage protection in a variety of political areas. In addition to engaging in a broad range of public relations activities, it provides comprehensive support on issues relating to the conservation and protection of cultural heritage and also plays a major role in shaping the general legal framework for cultural heritage conservation and protection and published “Promoting Sustainable Development and Architectural Culture” 2000. 3.8.5 The national organisation of state archaeologists is called the Landesarchäologen and this is normally formed from the heads of the archaeological departments within the heritage management sections of the federal states. The Landesarchäologen acts as advisor to the federal ministers. 3.8.6 Under the German constitution and federal system, many functions of government are controlled by the 16 individual federal states (Bundesländer). As a result the conservation and protection of the cultural heritage falls primarily within the remit of the federal states. They are responsible for adopting and executing laws governing the protection of the cultural heritage, together with the higher (administrative districts) and lower (districts and communes) cultural heritage authorities. 3.8.7 The federal states also carry the main responsibility for providing conservation funds. However, substantial funds are also provided by the communes, the churches, foundations and private owners of monuments and historic buildings. Moreover, private owners of monuments and historic buildings 0014021/JM/001 14
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