D4 - Produce heritage impact studies for rehabilitation, construction, planning and infrastructure projects
Heritage plays a part in the field of spatial planning and territorial development, through the implementation of the “integrated conservation” principle.
D4 Challenges
Development challenges
- Developing Europe’s prosperity by drawing on its heritage resources
- Ensuring that Europeans enjoy a high quality of life, in harmony with their cultural and natural environment
- Implementing the principle of integrated conservation
- Ensuring that heritage is taken into account in sustainable spatial development strategies and programmes
- Developing the ability of public services to address sustainable spatial development issues by means of better use of heritage
Knowledge challenges
- Guaranteeing a high technical level for all heritage trades and crafts
D4 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
- European
Recommended courses of action for D4
- Introduce heritage impact studies on a wider scale
- Support renovation and rehabilitation projects on existing heritage assets
- Verify and encourage an analysis of the expediency of conserving and enhancing heritage assets rather than carrying out new construction work, if this is possible as part of the programme
Good practices for D4
Moratorium on construction in protected (buffer) zone of the UNESCO World Heritage objects
- Strategy 21 - Territorial and economic development (D)
- D1 - Promote cultural heritage as a resource and facilitate financial investment
- D2 - Support and promote the heritage sector as a means of creating jobs and business opportunities
- D3 - Promote heritage skills and professionals
- D4 - Produce heritage impact studies for rehabilitation, construction, planning and infrastructure projects
- D5 - Encourage the reuse of heritage and use of traditional knowledge and practice
- D6 - Ensure that heritage is taken into account in development, spatial planning, environmental and energy policies
- D7 - Give consideration to heritage in sustainable tourism development policies
- D8 - Protect, restore and enhance heritage, making greater use of new technologies
- D9 - Use innovative techniques to present cultural heritage to the public, while preserving its integrity
- D10 - Use the cultural heritage as a means of giving the region a distinctive character and making it more attractive and better known
- D11 - Develop new management models to ensure that heritage benefits from the economic spinoffs that it generates