CHAMP PROGRESS REPORT CHAMP TRAINING Cultural Heritage Asset

CHAMP PROGRESS REPORT CHAMP TRAINING Cultural Heritage Asset Management Plans HA and Service Providers Briefing HA Environment Group March 2010

CHAMP TRAINING What’s happening today? Coffee Welcome Context Session 1 Break Session 2 Session 3 Discussion Lunch Session 4 Discussion. Jay Carver and Antonia Glyde Background and history. David Freke Introduction to CHAMPs. Elisa Fariselli Preparing the Management Plan Report. Leonora O’Brien Inventory data collection and management. Andy Copp Jay Carver

CHAMP Training Objectives for the day By the end of the day attendees should be able to: • appreciate the significance of cultural heritage assets for the HA, and why we need to manage them • whose responsibility it is to implement CHAMPs and your role • who to go to for help • know what a CHAMP looks like • be able to access the cultural heritage layer in Env. Is on HAGIS • know what level of expertise may be required to prepare a CHAMP, and what to do with it • know what all those acronyms stand for

CHAMP TRAINING Gestation of CHAMPS 1999 Gleam in Antonia’s eye 2001 Draft DMRB 10 CHMP Guidance 2002 A 38 Pilot commissioned 2003 Delivery of A 38 Pilot 2003 Dept Culture Media & Sport Protocol published 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 agreements in principle to fund database collection 2007 CHE and IAN 100/07 published 2008 DMRB 10 CHAMP Guidance published 2009 -10 cultural heritage database compiled in Env. IS 2009 Area 7 Pilot commissioned 2010 Area 7 Pilot delivered 2010 Training 2010 ---- MACs/DBFO Co. s deliver CHAMPs

CHAMP Training Background and history of CHAMPs David Freke EG EH HA Memorandum of Understanding (Mo. U) 1. 32 pm 14 th Dec 2006

CHAMP Training Points to cover What Cultural Heritage is Legislation and Policy Background Impacts on HA Business Why we need CHAMPs Next steps

CHAMP Training What is “cultural heritage”? ‘…a group of resources inherited from the past which people identify, independently of ownership, as a reflection and expression of their constantly evolving values, beliefs, knowledge and traditions. It includes all aspects of the environment resulting from the interaction between people and places through time. ’ DMRB 11 definition following the Council of Europe, Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Faro 2005)

CHAMP Training Range of cultural heritage • Archaeological Remains • Historic Buildings • Historic Landscape

CHAMP Training Policy, Legislation and Guidance

CHAMP Training International Conventions UNESCO Convention on the Protection of World Heritage Sites, eg Stonehenge, Hadrian’s Wall, Bath, European Cultural Convention (1954) - all types of cultural assets. European Convention on the Protection of the Architectural Heritage (1985) - historic buildings. European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage (1992) – archaeological remains. European Landscape Convention (2000) – historic landscapes.

CHAMP Training Legislation Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 Highways Act 1980 Heritage Act 1983 Planning (Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings) Act 1990 Treasure Act 1996 Hedgerow Regulations 1997 Highways (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2007 Planning Act 2008 Forthcoming Heritage Protection legislation and regulations c. 2010 …. ? (Not, you immediately notice, the Town and Country Planning Acts …)

CHAMP Training PPG 15 Planning and the Historic Environment (1994) PPG 16 Archaeology and Planning (1990) The HA adheres to the guidance in these documents (so far as legislative differences allow) and relies upon them in Public Inquiries etc. and incorporates them in HA advice documents These PPGs will require complete revision, as will the elements that rely on them in HA advice. Planning Policy Statement PPS 15 (in draft) will replace both PPGs. The HA signed a Memorandum of Understanding with English Heritage in 2006 which ratified these commitments English Heritage published Heritage At Risk in 2008, updated each year, and it contains assets owned by the HA Government Policy

CHAMP Training Care of Government owned cultural heritage assets The mandatory Protocol for the Care of the Government’s Historic Estate (2003 DCMS) requires all govt. departments and agencies to: • nominate a conservation officer • use consultants and contractors with appropriate expertise • commission regular condition surveys • develop site-specific management guidance • implement a planned programme of repairs and maintenance • protect buildings at risk • safeguard historic buildings that are in course of disposal • comply with the non-statutory notification procedures for Crown bodies • ensure that the design quality of any new work enhances the historic environment • prepare quadrennial conservation reports

CHAMP Training HA Strategy A New Deal for Transport: “better stewardship of the nation’s cultural … heritage” Transport 2010 The 10 Year Plan: “a transport system that makes less impact on the environment” Highways Agency’s Strategic Plan 1998: Aim: “To contribute to sustainable development” Objective: “To minimise the impact of the trunk road network on both the natural ands built environment” Cultural heritage: “To ensure trunk road projects incorporate an appropriate response to any effects on the historic environment, and respect the historic fabric of our landscape

CHAMP Training HA Policies and commitments HA Business Plan 2009 -10 “…. This year we will update our guidance on design solutions for archaeology, historic landscape and built heritage [DMRB 10] and complete the population of the cultural heritage database and commence the development of cultural heritage management plans across all areas” HA Network Management Manual: Soft estate routine maintenance includes cultural heritage, with ref. to IAN 84/07 (Env. IS) HA Routine and Winter Service Code: defect definitions include damage to the environment, and situations “liable to leave the So. S in breach of one or more of his statutory duties”. Identification and verification of defects or lack of them is a duty for the Service Provider

CHAMP Training HA guidance and standards documents DMRB vol 10. Environmental Design. Section 1 and 2 will include a requirement for Environment Management Plans (March 2010). (Archaeology Section 6 revised 2000, CHAMP Guidance added 2007) DMRB vol 11 Environmental Assessment (Cultural Heritage section revised 2007) Assessing the Effect of Road Schemes on Historic Landscape Character (2007) IAN 84/07 Env. IS Guidance

Why do we need CHAMPs? • because our roads affect cultural heritage assets • because cultural heritage costs the HA a significant amount, and efficient management will reduce costs

CHAMP Training HA business and cultural heritage How do we affect cultural heritage?

CHAMP Training Scope of HA activities affecting cultural heritage Major Projects Local Network Management Schemes Maintenance Technical Projects

CHAMP Training Major Projects A 64 Scampston, Yorks. Grade II Listed Bridge, Grade I Listed mansion, Grade II* Registered Capability Brown Park.

CHAMP Training Local Network Management Schemes These smaller schemes may have significant effects on cultural heritage: A 45 Ryton Junction – major excavation at short notice, dispute with County Archaeologist, and EH intervention. Successful outcome. A 45 Ryton Junction

CHAMP Training Maintenance (i) Routine maintenance and management has the potential to affect cultural heritage assets, eg: historic bridge repairs ditch cleaning vegetation control A 38 Milestone Cornwall

CHAMP Training Maintenance (ii) 18 th century Listed Grade II building, whose dilapidated condition was brought to HA’s attention by local authority. A 556 Sandiways, Cheshire Gatehouse Tower

CHAMP Training Maintenance (iii) Scheduled Monument A 1 Water Newton. Cambridgeshire, site of 57 Roman burials found in ditch cleaning

CHAMP Training What if cultural heritage issues are not effectively managed? HA can be held to account, legally and financially, for condition of protected assets, HA incurs unnecessary project costs and delays HA risks unnecessary friction with stakeholders and statutory advisors HA unable efficiently to manage its estate, Loss of credibility Ministerial embarrassment

Good News M 5 Croombe Park. Siting of VMS and bund to maintain historic views. M 63 Stretford. 19 th century Listed Grade II dovecot dismantled and reconstructed in Walkden Gardens, Sale.

Where we are A completed Level 1 Inventory loaded onto HAGIS Level 2 data collected and ready for upload to HAGIS Guidance published in DMRB 10 and IAN 84/07 A model CHAMP prepared by Area 7 Enhanced entry to 2010 Government’s Historic Estate Unit report

Next Steps Uploading Level 2 into HAGIS DMRB 10 Section 1 and 2 Env. IS Guidance and Go Live Proposed HA Heritage Report Roll out CHAMPs by all MACs, DBFO Co. s

Final word The HA’s roads themselves are increasingly recognised as potential historic assets, with the 1950 s bridges on the M 1 considered for listing, and a stretch of the first motorway near Preston being included in Lancashire County Council’s Historic Environment Record. This will be a challenge for the future.