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New Heritage planning policy a potential breakthrough, says CLA The CLA has welcomed a new draft heritage planning policy published by the Government which means better planning guidance, following CLA lobbying. CLA Vice President Harry Cotterell said: "This is good news for the CLA and our members who manage over a quarter of all the heritage in England and Wales. At first sight, the new heritage policy in the new draft planning policy statement 15 appears to improve significantly on current heritage planning guidance in a number of ways which the CLA strongly advocated at the drafting stage.
"It acknowledges more the need for viability and for heritage to change. It makes it easier to argue for sympathetic change, especially to things of lesser significance, rather than the old approach which all too often seemed to say 'you can't touch anything - it's part of the history of the building'."
"Current heritage planning policy and practice tends to freeze heritage by making change too difficult and expensive to achieve. This is bad not only for owners of heritage, but also for heritage itself, which will inevitably decay if it is too difficult to keep it up to date and put it to sympathetic and viable uses.
"The new draft policy and guidance are a definite step forward, designed to be in place for the next 20 years. However, it still does not adequately stress the vital need for realism and proportionality. The CLA will be picking up these and other detailed issues in the consultation."
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