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The CLA’s 35,000 members manage and/or own between a quarter and a third of all heritage in England and Wales. Each year our members spend at least a billion pounds on repairing historic buildings, welcome millions of visitors, paying and non-paying, and make many thousands of applications for planning permission and listed building consent. We are by far the biggest 'owner' stakeholder group in the heritage field. CLA heritage news (frequently-updated) CLA heritage policy and achievements Frequently-asked heritage questions (for example whether you need Listed Building Consent, whether you will get it, or whether anyone will give you a grant) The CLA 2005-06 Member Heritage Survey report "Who pays for Heritage", published in 2006 There are links to a number of relevant external websites at the foot of this page. Making heritage a source of pleasure and income - rather than anxiety and cost - is one of the biggest challenges faced by many CLA members. The CLA is taking an increasing interest in heritage, both in helping members and in lobbying for change, and has a specialist Heritage Adviser, Jonathan Thompson, and a Heritage Working Group of CLA members, chaired by Charlie Forbes Adam. Few organisations are actively working for those who own - and pay for - heritage. As a CLA member you can benefit from free advice on heritage alongside our other advice services on tax, law, planning, and the rural economy. You do not necessarily need to farm, or to own any significant amount of land to join - a high proportion of our members have a house, a few outbuildings, and a small amount of land. Further benefits of membership can be obtained using the links on his website. Contacts and FeedbackFor prompt advice please contact your CLA regional surveyor or adviser in the first instance. » Adviser Contacts Jonathan Thompson MA MBA DipM - Heritage Adviser
Advises and lobbies on heritage issues. Sits on the key cross-sector body HEREC, and its Climate Change Working Group, on the Heritage Alliance's Planning, and Rural Heritage Advocacy Groups, and on the Heritage Gateway's Advisory Committee, and has written numerous articles in Land & Business and elsewhere. After experience in property development, he ran the Landmark Trust's historic buildings holiday letting business 1995-2000, was then chief executive of the Architectural Heritage Fund 2000-03, and has been involved directly and indirectly in hundreds of historic building regeneration projects across the UK. He is also a part-time Consultant at CgMs, one of the largest firms of historic buildings and planning consultants. Fenella Collins MRICS - Senior Planning Adviser
Responsible for national planning policy issues. Also provides advice to members on development control issues. Christopher Price - Public Law Adviser
A solicitor, advises on administrative law issues, including conservation and heritage issues, planning and compulsory purchase. Links to external websites and documentsRelevant Government departments and related bodies Department for Culture Media and Sport (England, responsible for designation and English Heritage) Department for Communities and Local Government (England, responsible for local authorities and planning) DEFRA (England, responsible for agriculture, environment) Heritage legislation Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (England and Wales) Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (England and Wales) Planning and heritage policy statements The Government's Statement on the Historic Environment for England 2010 (England, March 2010) DCMS policy and guidance on Scheduled Monuments (England, March 2010) PPS 5 - the key planning policy statement for the historic environment (England, March 2010, replacing PPG15 and PPG16; see also its Practice Guide) PPS 4 - the planning policy statement on business development (including re-use of old buildings) (England, 2009) PPS 7 - the planning policy statement on development in rural areas (including re-use of old buildings) (England, gradually being replaced by new PPSs, especially PPS 4 as above) Guidance on information requirements and validation (March 2010, England) Development management policy annex: information requirements and validation for planning applications (March 2010, England) Welsh Office Circulars 60/96, 61/96, 1/98 (Wales, will probably be replaced 2010-11) Heritage guidance English Heritage guidance is available from the HELM website as below, under English Heritage guidance. Cadw guidance is available from the Cadw website as above, under conservation and publications. Advisers A list of specialist firms giving heritage planning advice. Other relevant information HELM (England, a useful source of information on managing the historic environment, including links to all English Heritage guidance) The Heritage Gateway (England, incomplete but developing online database giving access to local historic environment records and other information on individual heritage assets and sites, mostly archaeological; the CLA sits on its Advisory Committee) English Heritage/IHBC Local Authority Conservation Provision Survey (2003) English Heritage/IHBC/ALGAO Conservation Provision Survey 2009 Other relevant organisations Heritage Alliance (the heritage sector lobbying organisation of which the CLA is a member) This page last updated May 2010. |
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